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Indian-American Cos Fined $ 187,000 for Violating H-1B Visas Rules

[Washington,]Indian-American Cos Fined $ 187,000 for Violating H-1B Visas Rules
Two companies ,owned by an Indian-American, have been ordered to pay USD 103,000 in fines to the federal government and USD 84,000 in back wages to its employees carrying H-1B visas.
Scopus Consulting Group + Orian Engineers owned by Kishore Kumar, bring workers from India and other countries on H-1B visas to employ them as software engineers for Silicon Valley firms such as eBay+Apple + Cisco Systems.
During investigations, US Department of Labor Wage and Hour investigators found that the two companies violated the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act by misrepresenting the prevailing wage level on the Labor Condition Applications required by the act,
As per Reports Both firms have been debarred from H-1B program participation for one year