Because the reason you were allowed to in to the country was for that job for which there were no acceptably qualified american applicants. The formal reason f

Because the reason you were allowed to in to the country was for that job for which there were no acceptably qualified american applicants. The formal reason for a policy and the real reason have nothing to with each other. The phrase "job for which there were no acceptably qualified american applicants" is pure nonsense - the number of applicants is always dependent on the wage, make the wage low enough, you'll get no applicants, make it high enough, and a bunch of bankers will start retraining to go into software.