H-1B crackdown: US to tighten scrutiny as workers hired after programmers found doing higher-paid jobs

US immigration officials have uncovered H-1B petitions in Nebraska that listed workers as computer programmers even though site visits and interviews showed they were performing higher-paying engineering work, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said.

USCIS said the misclassification allowed the employer to pay lower wages than those associated with the workers’ actual duties, creating what the agency described as unfair competition for US workers.