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by mavelikara 3671 days ago
Making it easy to switch jobs will also go a long way in making this system much better.

Right now, the consultancy firms flood the application pool hoping to get few selected. They eat the cost of sending all the applications because they see it as an investment - they know that they can milk the few who get selected for many years and recoup many multiples of their initial investment.

Tying the H-1B to the employee not the employer will put an end to such abuses.