I agree it's not easy. I also was an H-1B, and in the exact same situation. I have heard contradictory things from various lawyers about whether I could contin

I agree it's not easy. I also was an H-1B, and in the exact same situation. I have heard contradictory things from various lawyers about whether I could continue a green card process if I changed employment. Even if there is a correct interpretation of the law, you can't rely on them applying it to you because as a non-US citizen you're at the mercy of the bureaucracy. Big companies can get what they want, not individuals. I wasn't happy with where I was working, and though they were willing to sponsor me for a green card, all the advice I got was that I would have to wait ten years or more. I didn't want to wait a decade to be more entrepreneurial, so I left instead. Also I was just sick of all the hoops I had to keep jumping through, scary experiences at the border, trivial screw-ups from lawyers meaning unexpected stays out of the country.... but most of all, how it made me a much more compliant person in my day-to-day work. I survived some difficult situations (and did jump employers once) but it was never easy. Other people in my situation, who are tired of being some company's indentured servant, sometimes do different visas. The O-1 is surprisingly popular, even though it's written like you have to be Stephen Hawking to qualify. But I guess I didn't have the werewithal to do that. In the original article, the congressperson commented about how the visa program doesn't attract entrepreneurial people. That was crazy. Lots of us are entrepreneurial! The H-1B visa is designed to stop us from doing that.