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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by techk on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:11PM (#14028111)
You are right. For the 85K visas, there were ~240K applications. If 30% of them were for senior engineers, then with these new stricter directives all 85K visas go to them, thereby increasing the supply of senior engineers.

Otherwise there would have been 30K senior engineers and 55K junior engineers.

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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by lovich on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:27AM (#14031786)
That assumes that the pool of senior engineers is large enough to fill that quota every year. Or that the demand for foreign seniors is that high
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Re:DOJ Cautions Employers Seeking H-1B Visas Not to Discrimi... by techk on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:00PM (#14036067)
Junior engineers filling up the quota is actually preventing senior engineers from getting through. There is always demand for high quality senior engineers, and companies like more choice.
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