  The visa system  Not working  How to hurt the economy
needlessly  See article  Readers' comments     So they are going
to increase the H1-B cap to 115K. A drop in the bucket. This is
progress? It used to be at 195K ten years ago. Only no cap, or
companies being allowed to buying visas would be real progress.
I was offered a job at MS in US. But it turned out they couldn't
get a visa for that year after all. I have given up on US. If US
doesn't want people like me, I don't want to be there. I'll go
elsewhere.  In the future US might find they cant even attract
the skilled people they need from abroad. Its over, You had your
chance and you f*cked it!  DriftWood79 in reply to RoyFan51  The
O visa is for Nobel Prize winners and movie stars. "Applicants
must demonstrate sustained national or international acclaim and
recognition".  Last time I checked the number of programmers of
international fame, can be counted on one hand.  Kurt E.
Clothier  Sure, with hundreds of thousands of unemployed and
highly skilled