From my personal case,looks like the green card route just got tougher.Been on H1 since 2000.With changing jobs and all, I finally filed for Labor cert. on March 2005.There does not seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. And with the prospect of layoffs continuing to be an integral part of the job definition of today, life as a "temporary worker" does become all the more challenging and interesting. Good luck to each one of you in this phase of your life and all the Nepali/foreign students at US universities.You may get a job after graduation but that alone will not gurantee you an easy route to a green card.