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Comment by everest81 | Hacker News Reader

If government really wanted to fix this, they would give priority to international students graduating from universities in US first, then allocate any remaining H1-Bs for consultancy agencies from India and elsewhere.

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True, outsourcing companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Tata etc gobble up majority of H1B visas for sending cheap labor to US. http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm

The data is for 2007, when financial sector was one of their primary customers. A bunch of Infosys and Tata's major customers (Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns) are out of business, other entities are significantly smaller in size. That list might look very different in 2013.

Here is the list from 2013, the situation is even worse, most Indian Offshore companies are among top 10 now: http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outs...

And its full of fraud...at this point these companies should be banned, its highly unethical.

Depends what needs fixing. If it's "have access to experienced engineers that aren't currently in the US", that wouldn't help.

"then allocate any remaining H1-Bs for consultancy agencies from India" The idea of companies eliminating a source of relatively cheap labor is unheard of, not gonna happen. While I agree with your statement, this is the crux of the problem, and why I am against 20k increase in STEM visas. Its bad for every worker, US citizen, Green Card Holder, and Visa alike in this country.

They do. See http://www.visapro.com/Immigration-Articles/?a=1090&z=48

The first 20,000 applicants with an advanced degree from a US institution have priority.

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