That's probably true. Instead of getting rid of H1B's we need to fast-track them to green-cards independent of employer. One thing I've not seen mentioned her

That's probably true. Instead of getting rid of H1B's we need to fast-track them to green-cards independent of employer. One thing I've not seen mentioned here is that green-card applications require the co-operation of the employer. The big indian body-shops that hire the most H1B's barely submit any green-card applications at all (e.g. in 2012 Tata (TCS) did 4 out of 7500 H1B visas, Wipro only did 30 out of 4300) and even those who are submitted face very long lead times. http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outsourcing/ http://www.epi.org/blog/top-10-h1b-guestworker-offshore-outs...