I don't really have an opinion about what sablefish/black cod/whatever should be called. I just know it works really well in this dish.

I've never tried another fish that worked as well broiled with miso.

Got it. I found almost the exact same numbers on the USCIS site, except that in this case it says it includes both new and continuing cases: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h-1b-petitions-by-gender-country-of-birth-fy2019.pdf

So if I'm reading this right, it looks like the latter of the two scenarios I described.

Is that 86% of people who get H-1B visas, or 86% of people who currently are on an H-1B? If the latter, this could be a result of the long wait time for a green card for those nationalities. i.e. most people who go through the system do not have these insane wait times, but Indian and Chinese applicants are stuck in the system for much longer, and thus make up a disproportionate number of current H-1B holders.

Not that that's a good thing, of course. It's incredibly unfair to them.

That's how it works in the US too, for H-1B workers -- except for the ones born in India and China.

Merriam Webster's lists it as an alternative pronunciation: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ask

That parenthetical applies to me.