H-1B Workers Put in Long Hours to Reach the American Dream

Salil Choudhary came to the U.S. in 1999 on an H-1B visa, received a green card in 2004, and became a citizen in 2010. Things were going great until Choudhary, a freelance information technology consultant, entered a contract with Yochana IT Solutions Inc. in January 2018.

That was the “worst experience of my consulting career,” he told Bloomberg Law.

Yochana placed Choudhary with HCL America Inc. on a project being completed for Philadelphia-based Axalta Coating Systems. He expected to work a regular, 40-hour-per-week job, but soon found he was putting in long hours during the week and on the ...