> The lottery change could be aimed at hindering those outsourcing firms’ applications, Rand said. Three Indian firms, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wi

> The lottery change could be aimed at hindering those outsourcing firms’ applications, Rand said. Three Indian firms, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, have dominated H-1B applications since 2012, government data shows. This would be great. Almost, all my well qualified peers (on F-1,or H1B) hate the contract coding body shops. Even people who end up working there, hate their time over there, and often choose it as a way to stay in the US, until they get a "proper" job. Assuming there isn't some hidden fine script that screws qualified people over, this should help weed out the bad actors, without changing much else. > In addition to the new lottery order, the department also proposed a new way for companies to enter their H-1B visa applicants into the lottery. Right now, employers have to prepare a full petition for each applicant before they’re picked. The proposed rule change would let employers register them online before the lottery, and work on their cases only if applicants are selected. I wonder if this will make companies more likely to hire h1b candidates, as the legal expense only manifests after they are picked in the lottery. I am glad they did not put sweeping salary requirements into place. This would have hurt many competent candidates who joined startups (where stocks > base pay) or ones in engineering fields where salaries have historically been much lower than that in the CS industry.