Which corporations have probably the most staff engaged on an H-1B visa?

In serving to instigate a heated debate over H-1B visas, Elon Musk is talking each from private expertise and as a enterprise proprietor. That is as a result of his firm, electrical automobile maker Tesla, is among the many U.S. corporations that deliver hundreds of international engineers and different expert employees into the U.S. every year.

After not putting within the prime 25 H-1B visa employers in prior years, Tesla now ranks No. 16, in response to the Nationwide Basis for American Coverage (NFAP) a nonpartisan suppose tank targeted on commerce and immigration points.

Whereas nicely behind the likes of expertise giants resembling Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Google, Tesla in 2024 considerably elevated its rely of staff employed by way of the visa program, with its 742 permitted H-1B petitions for preliminary employment greater than double the 328 it recorded in 2023, NFAP discovered.Tesla additionally had 1,025 H-1B petitions for persevering with employment permitted in 2024.

“I am in America together with so many essential individuals who constructed SpaceX, Tesla and a whole bunch of different corporations that made America robust is due to H1B,” Musk, who early in his profession labored within the U.S. on an H-1B visa, posted Friday on his social media website, X. Musk additionally vowed to “go to conflict on this concern the likes of which you can not probably comprehend.”

Musk and his corporations definitely aren’t alone in utilizing the H-1B program to fill out their worker ranks. The tech trade has lengthy pushed to broaden the quantity H-1B visas granted by the federal government to deliver expert employees to the U.S. from India, China, Canada, Korea, the Philippines and different international locations.

This system is capped at 65,000 information visas every year, though an extra 20,000 will be issued for workers with a grasp’s diploma or greater, in response to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers.

Here is a rundown of the highest 20 corporations as listed by the variety of H-1B petitions for preliminary employment the U.S. permitted in fiscal-year 2024, in response to NFAP:

Amazon. The e-commerce firm had probably the most permitted H-1B petitions for preliminary employment in 2024, with 3,871. That determine was down from greater than 4,000 H-1B visas in 2023 and almost 6,400 in 2022.
Cognizant. The knowledge expertise providers agency had the second most H-1B petitions permitted in 2024, tallying 2,837.
Infosys. The digital providers and consulting firm had 2,504 petitions permitted in fiscal-year 2024.
TCS. Tata Consultancy Providers ranked forth, with 1,452.
IBM. The expertise firm nicknamed Large Blue tallied 1,348 petitions.
Microsoft. The expertise conglomerate noticed 1,264 petitions permitted.
HCL America. The pc programming options supplier had 1,248 permitted H-1B visas.
Google. The search engine ranked No. 8, with 1,058 H-1Bs.
Capgemini. The knowledge expertise firm accounted for 1,041 H-1B visas final 2024.
Meta Platforms. Previously generally known as Fb, Meta was behind 920 permitted petitions.
Deloitte. The audit and tax consultancy firm had 891 petitions permitted.
Apple. The iPhone and laptop computer maker accounted for 864.
Intel. The semiconductor firm’s rely got here to 851.
Accenture. The IT firm garnered approval for 833 petitions.
LTIMindtree. The worldwide expertise consultancy counted 798.
Tesla. The electrical automobile maker had 742 petitions permitted.
Ernst & Younger. The accounting agency tallied 741.
Goldman Sachs. The funding financial institution and monetary providers agency garnered 678.
Wipro. The IT providers supplier’s tally got here to 609.
Walmart. The retailing large is behind 654 permitted H-1B petitions.