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(Pls. correct the statement as the reasoning may be biased or limited).. Here are 2 issues I see illogical with the current  USCIS model.

1. Prioritization of the applicants based on their (US/Foreign) education background vs. work experience:
This system should evaluate who is more qualified for the quota, rather than the lottery system.

Most of you who have invested your time, money and effort in comming to the US attaining IT bachelors degrees. Many have gained US corporate exposure and IT working skillsets and experienced IT work environment. However, average 75% have to spend going back to school just to maintain your status, or getting masters degree which is also uncertain in the commin 2/3 yrs.

On the other hand, foreign national with 4 yrs. of foreign IT degree have the same privelages. If this were the case, it would be cost effective to go back and get 4 years degree and file for H1b from home country rather.

With this route, the difference is that US gov and ed institutions will loose cash inflow from multi-billion dollar education industry.

 

2. USCIS should allocate a quota for each country.
Last year, 25,000 H1bs were issued to InfoSys, one single Indian company alone. Probably there may have been avg. 60-80% candidates from Indian ethnicity who could have received H1b approvals (my assumption).

If USCIS allocates min quota for each individual country, most Nepali people will have much higher chances of meeting H1b quota, both US based and Nepal based.

This issue needs to be addressed to USCIS now before its too late.

Pls. contact USCIS if you feel this is reasonable.

Yes we should do something ..

I am not sure if I understand how it would benefit the US if they implement one of the two or both of your suggestions. H1B isn't a diversity visa, from my understanding it is a work visa to bring in talent from other countries for jobs that can't be filled by US work force. Isn't that the reason it goes through the process of labor approval?

I think you are looking at things from the perspective of how if these were implemented in the way you wanted, it would benefit you and your situation but I think this country was built on the philosophy of "Ask not what your country can do for  you but what you can do for your country".

Working for a company thats always looking for great talent, I don't think I would support a system that might put a quota on great talent and jeopardize the productivity of my company and department. The domino effect of such could be that we hire less productive candidates because the quota for the country from which the candidate I like is over.

They already have a green card lottery system to support diversity in this country. This country has a great system and everything works as long as you work hard. I wouldn't want to screw it up, "Don't fix it, if it ain't broke" is my mantra especially after seeing what happened to Nepal where we went from bad to worse by the day.