elaws - H-1B Advisor

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This section of the Advisor is designed to provide comprehensive information about the payment of wages specific to your situation based on your responses to the questions in the following sections.

If you only need information on certain wage topics you may select only those topics of interest to you. You will receive results at the end of every topic.

Please select all topics that interest you:

Initial obligation to pay - This module will help you determine when the initial obligation to pay begins and learn why you may not have a 30 or 60 day period before your obligation to pay begins.

Required wage rate - This module will help you determine your minimum cash wage requirement for an H-1B worker.

Payroll deductions - This module will help you determine the difference between authorized and impermissible deductions.

Benching and other nonproductive periods - This module will help you learn your wage obligations for H-1B workers in non-productive status.

Credits - This module will help you determine if facilities or additional payments that you provide are creditable toward the required wage rate.

Bona fide termination - This module will help you determine when your obligation to pay wages to an H-1B worker ends.

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