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Exactly. Sure some H1-b visas might be used to just increase programmer supply, but many are like the professor you're talking about. Even catching a few geniuses in an extremely broad net is an invaluable boon to our country. Our concerns should be that we are missing some.


There is a visa for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa


If I remember correctly, higher education institutions are exempt from the visa cap




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