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Hey that's real cool how this thing doesn't weed out for companies that don't exist anymore, sure helps make the problem look huge.

I didn't see any companies that didn't exist when I used it for my area. I searched on applications for 2001, and the max limit of 500 applications was returned. A significant number of those applications had anywhere from 5 to 20 workers on them..

If you search on Tucson you'll find Integra Technologies International, which went bye-bye Thanksgiving week 1998 (well they laid off all but 2 employees, who were working paying support contracts, and they got sold with the contracts in early '99). Actually it got bought by Ikon Office Solutions in 1996 (but they never could decide what the name of the company was supposed to be after the buy), who did a great job of finishing running the company into the ground then put gave it the Ol' Yeller in '98. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the New York company Itegra merged with that's how we (that's where I started, but I saw the handwriting on the wall and was actually in the process of stealing employees when the axe fell) got the H1Bs in the first place. But I'm betting that company shows up on the list too.