Who Got H-1B Visas Petitions Approved Last Year? Look At The List

[OhioChick]

Among the top 10 companies having H-1B visa petitions approved for fiscal 2007 are eight Indian firms and two U.S. companies, Microsoft and Intel.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
April 2, 2008 02:54 PM


Thousands of employers are scrambling this week to file H-1B visa petitions in hopes that the U.S. government will approve their applications to hire foreign tech workers in fiscal 2009. InformationWeek analyzed the list of companies that had their H-1B visa applications approved last year and the number of approvals they got.

Among the top 10 companies having H-1B visa petitions approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for fiscal 2007 (which started Oct. 1, 2006) are eight Indian firms -- with Infosys ranked at No. 1 with 4,559 visas -- and two U.S.-based companies, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), having a combined 1,328 visa petitions approved. In total, the top 10 companies had 12,876 H-1B visa petitions approved.

Despite the annual cap of 65,000 H-1B visas that are generally available and the additional 20,000 exempt visas for foreign-born students with advanced degrees from U.S. schools, there were a total of 126,219 H-1B visa petitions approved in fiscal 2007 by USCIS.

Those additional 41,219 H-1B visas petitions approved included three-year extensions for companies seeking H-1B visa renewals, as well as two categories of employers exempt from caps -- nonprofit organizations and institutes of higher learning, said a USCIS spokesman in an interview.

"So, while there's lots of discussion about the 85,000 cap, in reality the total number of H-1B visa petitions approved is higher," the spokesman said.


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[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for posting these names

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I find myself edging ever closer...

To a political and social philosophy I was able to avoid in the late 60's and early 70's.

[DaveJ]

3. I'm tempted to say "so what?"

I'd rather encourage skilled workers to come here for slightly less than average paying jobs, than encouraging slave labor.

Plus, I'm beginning to think Bill Gates is right. U.S. kids who care about learning technology anymore are few and far between.

Granted, that is due to the employment environment which does not encourage them, but that is the fault of simple minded employers, who create job matrices that discourage average people from learning high tech skills.

Why bother learning new technology when you are almost guaranteed to get laid off at some point?

I really don't understand it. U.S. businesses are not open to hiring U.S. kids willing to learn, but then they complain that U.S. kids don't want to learn. Who can blame them?

Obviously, yet again, I'm confused by the situation.

[spindrifter]

5. One recent interview

claimed that the jobs they were filling with H-1B people were software architect jobs that pay minimum of $80,000 per annum. I can imagine that some of our kids might be motivated to work for chump change like that.

[OhioChick]

8. Gates is not right....

He's for hiring on the cheap.

This is no shortage and have been many studies to back that up. For instance this Duke study:

Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Careers/Study-There-Is-No-Shortage-of-US-Engineers/

Now, why would any "intelligent kid" go into computer science when they see Dad and Mom losing their jobs at a alarming rate? I told mine not to go near that field. I'm having one hell of a time "keeping" my job.

[DaveJ]

9. Another reason to outsource.

If you don't want your kids to learn technology, why should you care if we outsource all the tech jobs? It's a viscous circle isn't it?

I wish there were some way to tell the difference between people who were in it for the passion, versus those in it for the wages. I'd would work with technology in my spare time even if my job were making hotdogs. At the same time, a lot of people making high wages in tech fields would rather make hotdogs than work in technology. Things are out of wack.

[OhioChick]

10. I've always loved my field....

and am a bit taken aback by your response. I've never been in it for the wages......as a matter of fact I've taken many pay cuts since asshat has been in office. I'd like to get paid what I'm worth and have some sense of job security. Guess I'll never have that.

You'll likely be the first to complain when your SS #, credit card info and identity are stolen because your credit card company outsourced their whole IT dept.

And BTW...What about all the engineers out of work now? What should they do? Ah....that's right, Bill said there is a shortage, so it must be true.

[LoZoccolo]

11. "U.S. kids who care about learning technology anymore are few and far between."

How come this wasn't the case in 1996, but is more true now?

Oh.

[spindrifter]

4. Okay, so I understand the

major software companies going for the H-1B's. I understand the value of them to the accounting firms. But what's the rationale for Prince Georges County Public Schools with 238 of them and Baltimore City Public Schools???

[DaveJ]

6. Even accounting firms makes no sense

Their clients could find qualified U.S. applicants if they tried, even if it were less than the "going rate" that some pseudo techies think they deserve.

Accountants are so stupid it amazes me. If we encouraged people to learn technical skills at lower wages, we (as a nation) would soon have larger pool of people from which to select.

As it stands now, this Visa thing is dumbing down our nation, but these accountants aren't paid to think about that.

[nashville_brook]

7. globalization sucks.

[psychmommy]

12. this is so frustrating.

how long before they outsource or downsize my job or your job. so many people in their 50's & 60's have to be retrained. we need to start making a stand now before it us.