Guys, let me tell you the truth. Everybody believes that the desi small firm consultants eats up the share of h1b from the big IT giants. In reality, what are these big IT giants doing with so many H1b's? They are also doing the same thing as the small guys except that these big firms have much more reputation.
Small firm consultants: For a fee, they get h1b's and then put these guys into some other companies after the actual interviews. They eat 40-50% of the money what the employee earns there.
Big guys like TCS, infy: They get H1b's for their employees, even though many times that employee is never sent to the US. This is bylarge a means of retaining employees. The employee will day dream of going to the US someday but which will never happen. Even when they are sent, most of the times they work for some other project than they had initially had applied for the visa. These big guys also loot most of the money from the clients and pay a very small portion to their employees.
Bottomline: H1B visa's should be taken off. A UK visa equivalent of HSMP should be brought in wherein an employee is not tied to his employer. Probably we can have a maximum cap on this.
This is more of my personal opinion as a H1b visa applicant of 2006. Ya still an applicant. I can be reached here: http://timeforblog.blogspot.com/
