Yeah, personally I think they should keep the "temporary" aspect, that it's conditional on employment, and the lottery, but remove the employer lock-in. So an

Yeah, personally I think they should keep the "temporary" aspect, that it's conditional on employment, and the lottery, but remove the employer lock-in. So an employer has to initially sponsor an H1-B, but they damn well better be paying competitive wages and benefits otherwise they're not going to be able to keep the H1-B. Once the H1-B immigrant enters the country and works one day, they personally can renew, transfer their employment, and make all the paperwork decisions. There would probably need to be some tweaks (e.g. an employer looses sponsorship privileges if they can't keep the people they sponsor), but I think that's the right path.