80% of H1-B visas going to Indian-owned outsourcing companies last year .. [supposed to help US companies get short skills !!]

Indian outsourcing companies take the lion's share of U.S. H-1B visas | 16 April 2007
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Many other individuals and companies also expected to fulfill one of the key reasons for the program: to bring needed skills to the United States. Companies send representatives around the world to recruit the best and the brightest that they can find.

But something unusual happened last year and this year.

In past years a large percentage of H-1B visas have been granted to citizens of India. Only 7.5% of H-1B's were granted to Indian nationals in 1992, but that had jumped to about 40% in 2005 and then to 43,167 (66.5%) of the 65,000 in 2006. The trend has been strongly toward Indian companies obtaining the H-1B visas, with eight of every ten visas going to Indian-owned outsourcing companies last year.

In 2005 it was four in ten.

Alone, that statistic is a little bit surprising. After all, the program is intended to benefit U.S. companies in need of critical skills.

In fact, by definition, the visas granted are not supposed to displace American workers.

But what has happened is that the vast majority of H-1B visas appear to be going to Indian outsourcing companies. ...