Re:I am a worker on H1 Visa (Score 1)

It could be any of the things you told. I dont know much about what the real answer is. However, my job, when they recruited me, was a lead position. They told me that they had been trying for a perfect fit for a few months within USA and came to me, through their Indian offices. I would have thought they are just telling me so, to make me feel better. However after 6 months into the job, I had to expand my team and they asked me to interview. It took me 67 interviews (80% of them non-immigrants) and we found one candidate that we liked. And he happened to be from Russia and was on a H1 !!. I can tell you that in my case, I was not cheap labor. I was in the top 20% pay bracket of IBM.