H1B Visa: Scam, Shortage and Solution

I was reading updates about H1B Visa and what’s happening with the discussion in Congress about increasing number of H1B Visas after Bill Gates presentation few weeks back and new USCIS H1B Visa Interim Rules. I came across this interesting piece of article

… This is the basis for the company to bargain with clients and get them to shell more on projects. Once 6,000 candidates get their visas in October, hardly 2,000 use it and come on site. The rest fall in the bargaining chip category for future projects!

“Appalling but true. This is just one company that I worked in.. Imagine 5-6 companies doing the same thing.. 65,000 just gets washed away by these mammoths…” Continue reading about HB Visa Scam

As that goes on with Indian Consulting Companies not using most of the H1B Visas, Washington Post is suggesting an short term solution to fix the H1B Visa Shortage that exists now

One solution that may be less politically inflammatory would be to recapture H-1B visas that Congress has already approved but that went unused during the post-Sept. 11 economic downturn. About 300,000 surplus visas could be doled out over the next several years to provide a short-term fix to the current shortage and could perhaps include an additional fee — which employers would pay — to create more revenue

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