H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.
The H-1B program is terrible and needs to be reformed. It is supposed to temporarily shore up the supply of critically skilled workers that are in demand.<p>While it does this, when the program was envisioned no one imagined H-1B visa holders working here for 10+ years.<p>If only there were a word for the importation of minority labor and  locking them into employment with their sponsor, effectively reducing their negotiating power for salary to zero...<p>Not to mention by artificially suppressing H-1B salaries over time, it puts negative wage pressure on US workers in similar positions.<p>I believe H-1B workers should be offered green cards if they are here for more than 2-3 years, so they can negotiate on equal footing with US citizens.