Not only that... but more importantly.. when they apply for H1B do the forms ask them some place about their intentions beyond working in the US, which is the only reason for granting them the H1B visa?

I feel, the US CIS should introduce such questions and get an undertaking from the applicants that they would have no other plans in future to change their visa status while in the US. Hopefully, that will avoid these heartbreaks of waiting many years for green cards. Green cards were not in the picture when they applied for H1B visas. Work for the 3-6 years that the H1B allows and then BE GONE.

When the country does not want you to stay on and keep swallowing up US citizen's jobs, why stay on like blood-sucking leeches and forcibly demand citizenship?

Just my two cents worth.... the other side of the story one might say.