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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by pandaman on Friday March 18, 2016 @01:43AM (#11310139)
There are more ways. For example, preventing bodyshops like Tata et al from taking all visas every year. While it's profitable to abuse the system the system is going to be abused. It's not like USCIS is oblivious to what's going on, if it were told to enforce the law, I am pretty sure, it would have complied.
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by zmitri on Friday March 18, 2016 @02:32AM (#11310283)
Maybe, but the cap is so oversubscribed now that even if they were banned, and even if the 1/3 of the H1B visas those kinds of consultancies take went to someone else, there's still no more guarantee you'd make the lottery/cap.
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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by pandaman on Friday March 18, 2016 @02:52AM (#11310326)
This year Infosys, Tata, Wipro and IBM submitted more than 65000 applications [1] (which is the current cap). And these are not the only bodyshops in the running. If the law had been enforced then there had been plenty of H1-Bs to go around the year (or, at least till October/November) without a lottery like it always happens in the years when the "consulters" get cut due to poor economy.

1. http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

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