[elblanco]

There's over 5 million people in the D.C. area (D.C., Southern MD and Northern Virginia). Coupled with a highly educated workforce, plentiful higher education options, and a rapidly modernizing federal government, and you actually see very very few unemployed developers. Most places I know in the area get the vast vast majority of their resumes from incoming immigrants looking for an H1-B sponsor or a Green Card sponsor.

D.C. proper by comparison has very little going on.

[GFischer]

Do you know if they eventually go for it? (H1-B sponsoring?). I'm a wannabe immigrant, and I wouldn't mind an H1-B sponsor :)

[elblanco]

Some places are. It's difficult because the biggest employer in the area is the U.S. Federal Government. So it's hard to hire non-citizens. But there is a relatively healthy private sector as well. You just have to try and find those smaller employers. Most of the resume's I've seen also seem to be coming in through a recruiting agency if that helps.