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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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