As a person from New Zealand without an advanced degree (from anywhere) but with 30+ years industry experience (and previously granted an H-1B in 2001), this seems like the wrong way to tackle the problem of Indian body shops.

I was selected in this year's lottery in April and am still waiting for them to start processing the case -- according to their web site it could easily take until sometime in February, ten months after submitting the paperwork. Thank goodness I'm able to do contract work for the company remotely in the meantime.

As for pushing US salaries down ... my salary is well into six figures, thank you. And was, even in my previous job, in Moscow.

If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?

Or, just get moving with the proposed increase in the minimum salary from $60k to $130k. I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't.

And the processing times are criminal. It's probably going to be a year from submitting the paperwork until actually moving to the US -- and with six months of the three years of the visa (starting October 1) already gone.

Getting the Russian equivalent "Highly Skilled Specialist" visa (3 years, plus one 3 year renewal, minimum salary 2 million rubles a year) only took two months.