>>There are those, employed by the likes of AmaGooFaceSoft / Unicorns or graduating from mid-top tier universities, who will benefit by the proposed changes and who were indeed the "target audience" in mind when H1-B was linked to "getting high skilled immigrants in the US".
Pray, educate us how modifying a XML or Json while working directly for AmaGooFaceSoft automatically makes you a 'highly skilled immigrant' and working through a outsourcing firm and doing the very exact same work doesn't.
The worst thing I have seen among Indians which often comes and bite us is to actively treat other people's work as beneath us.
By the way there are tons on projects in the outsourcing firms you mentioned which demand far higher quality and productivity than your ordinary project at AmaGooFaceSoft will ever ask. This is about work, not which company you work for. But I don't expect our fellow Indians to understand this any better given how we treat the social conditions we are born into as permanent positions for life. I can absolutely understand how some one with a job in AmaGooFaceSoft might think of people from outsourcing firms as lesser children of god, and they being masters of the universe, despite in many cases the former doing far better quality of work. In India workplaces are treated as status symbols for life and displayed on house nameplates and marriage invitations. So I realize the obviousness of 'they' vs 'us' context here.
If you don't speak up now, or take a stance just because it helps you, please note it well, you are next.