whenever you see abuse and harrasment from your employer try to force your employer to communicate only in email. document everything. save all outgoing and incoming emails.
notify your fraud employer IN EMAIL to pay you the wages and send you the w2 within a week and mention that if you dont receive it then you will be filing a complaint to DOL and IRS.
your employer will face severe consequences from both DOL and IRS. its is illegal for an employer to hold w2 of employee for any reason whatever. irs will take adverse action against your fraud employer. he have to face severe fines and audits from IRS.
dol will get back all your wages with interest free of cost for you. then they will notify uscis to debar that employer from filing any labor or h1 or green petitions for upto 5 years (depending of violations).
whistleblower act will protect you from any retaliation from your employer. and you dont have worry about your status. whistleblower act will authorize the attorney general and the secretary of the state to authorize you to stay in this country and seek another employer without affect your legal status. do not worry. teach a lesson to that employer. make sure he dont abuse any other h1 people in his country.
if you dont mind send me your employer name and their location details via private messaging service (use PM button below).
according to WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION act:
Section 212(n)(2) (8 U.S.C. 1182(n)(2)), as amended by section 5 of this Act, is further amended--
(1) in subparagraph (C), by inserting `, or that the employer has intimidated, discharged, or otherwise retaliated against any person because that person has asserted a right or has cooperated in an investigation under this paragraph' after `a material fact in an application'; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
`(F) Any alien admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), who files a complaint pursuant to subparagraph (A) and is otherwise eligible to remain and work in the United States, shall be allowed to seek other employment in the United States for the duration of the alien's authorized admission, if--
`(i) the Secretary finds a failure by the employer to meet the conditions described in subparagraph (C), and
`(ii) the alien notifies the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the name and address of his new employer.'.