You are 100% correct.  <i>HOWEVER</i>, you don&#x27;t see the companies lobbying to increase the funding to DoL&#x2F;USCIS.<p>The reason is that the choke point benefits these companies.  If you cleared the backlog so that a green card was a 12 month process, the companies would quit asking for H1-B&#x27;s unless they <i>really</i> wanted them.