Experts see global in-house centres (GICs) as a viable option for companies to not only retain Indian talent but also address the anticipated shortage in the required volume of workers in the US.

According to Parag Saigaonkar, principal at global consulting firm Deloitte in India, while the initial thrust of GICs was on moving job roles from a high-cost to low-cost centre to get a competitive edge, firms are now looking at non-linear values that GICs can add to the business — things that Indian GICs can produce—and supporting the parent organisation. “With the seemingly shifting dynamics towards options between outsourcing and local hiring, companies with GICs in India could move Indian talent from the US to India and also hire locals into the GICs and thus sidestep the restrictions of outsourcing to third party companies,” Guruprasad said.
This is the other problem, where 1,000's of American white collar jobs have been replaced with shops in India. Even if H1-B were reduced or cut to nothing, there's nothing stopping companies from hiring Indians directly in India, or any other country for that matter.