[shas3]

This could potentially increase the 'cost-to-company' for each employee. Also, it could well be that an employee is worth a lot to Infosys, Cognizant, or other off-shoring companies who make up a bulk of the H1B applications, and they may be willing to spend enough to be the highest bidder.

[sbierwagen]

Yes, that's the point of the H-1B visa? It's supposed to be used for people with rare and unusual skillsets, the kind of people who command very high salaries; not for offshoring.

  The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States... [that] 
  allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in 
  specialty occupations.

  The regulations define a "specialty occupation" as requiring 
  theoretical and practical application of a body of highly 
  specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor including 
  but not limited to biotechnology, chemistry, architecture, engineering[...]