The NFAP has published a study on H-1b usage. One of the more interesting finds is that sponsorship of new H-1b petitions by the traditional Indian off-shore houses has fallen. The assumption is that this is the result of the roadblocks designed to make it more difficult for staffing/consulting companies to place H-1b workers at 3rd party sites that started with the 2010 Neufeld memo and has been on steroids since the current Administration took control. This is a reasonable interpretation but, what is a more interesting question is whether or not these large Indian outsourcing houses have been able to use these roadblocks to their advantage to encourage more projects to be moved overseas and, if so, these roadblocks have ultimately served to decrease the number of US jobs and increase the number of outsourced projects. Unintended consequences can often be quite the bitch.