H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
Although Infosys and the like apply for a lot of H1Bs, they make very very few (we&#x27;re talking double-digit numbers) successful applications for green cards. This means most of these people on H1Bs for the consulting companies are actually going back home.<p>Which means that Infosys, TCS and the like are contributing a rotating pool of about ~30k-40k &quot;migrant&quot; software labor consisting of individuals who live in the US for a maximum of a couple of years. Could this be the reason why Americans wages are depressed? Well, let&#x27;s run the numbers. There are 3.6 million software developers in the US. 40k is an insignificant fraction of that. So no. That&#x27;s not it.