I have a reform of the H1B visa I would propose.
1. Take it 100% out of the hands of the employers, do not issue H1B visa applications to employers for employers to provide for their selected foreigners.
2. Issue X number of H1B Visa applications possible for the year, directly to the foreign individuals who want to apply for them, with the number adjusted each year as the needs of the country change.
3. Applicants apply in their home country, with some countries, for national security reasons, excluded. They do not apply because some company wants them to. They apply on their own. Once the X number of applications have been accepted there are no more till the following year.
4. The visa gives the recipient one year to come to the U.S. and find a job in the job categpry for which they obtained the H1B Visa. They must be accepted for such a job within that year or the visa expires. If accepted in such a job within the year the visa is extended for the legally defined H1B visa period.
5. The H!B visa holder is not beholden to any employer. As long as they remain employed and employed in the job category for which the H!B visa was granted, for the H!B visa period, the visa remains valid. In other words, they can change their employer because they want to change their employer, no matter what a current employer, on their H1B visa, thinks.
By this reform, companies cannot rig the labor market for below market wages for H1B visa holders. The H1B visa holders simply add folks to the domestic job market, not a particular employer’s group of employees. They can get the prevailing wage, do not have to accept a job for less.
The H1B visa will quit depressing U.S. wages for U.S. citizens and legal residents alike. Employers will not have a wage-advantage by hiring an H1B visa holder, because the H1B visa holder is not beholden to the employer, they are on their own, and they can learn, as anyone can, what their real worth is on the U.S. open job market.
Much simpler idea: Shut down H1B. It is not needed.
I have a solution that is less complex and easy to implement and will fix the H1B system immediately.
Charge the company that wants a H1B $50,000 annualy for each H1B desired.
Once the corporations can no longer use the H1B system to get cheap labor the fraud will disappear and the H1B system will be used for what it was meant for: resources that are in short supply in America.