This company got approval for highest number of H-1B visas in 2024; not Narayana Murthy’s Infosys, Ratan Tata’s TCS, Sundar Pichai’s Google, Microsoft, Wipro, it is …

The H-1B visa permits American employers to hire workers from foreign countries.

New Delhi: Ever since Donald Trump assumed office, he has introduced several radical changes in the policies of the government, especially regarding immigrants and migrant workers. now, the Trump administration, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is about to make several changes to the H-1B visa programme. The H-1B visa permits American employers to hire workers from foreign countries for the work that requires a particular set of skills.

It is worth noting that Indians form a big chunk of the H-1B programme beneficiaries.

According to a data released by the USCIS, in 2024, Indian-origin tech companies acquired a fifth of all H-1B visas issued by the United States. The USCIS data further added that 24,766 of the 130,000 H-1B visas were granted to Indian-origin companies between April and September 2024.

Infosys received 8,140 visas, TCS 5,274 visas, HCL America 2,953 visas, Wipro 1,634 visas and Tech Mahindra 1,199 visas, says the USCIS data.

Jeff Bezos-led Amazon got 9,265 H-1B approvals.

Here is the list of top companies by H-1B approvals in 2024:

Amazon Com Services LLC: 9,265 approvals

Infosys Limited: 8,140 approvals

Cognizant Technology Solutions: 6,321 approvals

Google LLC: 5,364 approvals

Tata Consultancy Services Limited: 5,274 approvals

Meta Platforms Inc: 4,844 approvals

Microsoft Corporation: 4,725 approvals

Apple Inc: 3,873 approvals

HCL America Inc: 2,953 approvals

IBM Corporation: 2,906 approvals

According to a Pew report, India remains the dominant country of origin for H-1B recipients. In 2023, 73 percent of approved applicants were born in India, followed by China at 12 percent. No other country accounted for more than 2 percent of approvals. Since 2010, Indian nationals have consistently received the majority of H-1B approvals.

A major portion of approved applications in recent years have been renewals rather than new applicants. In 2024, 65 percent of approvals (258,196 applications) were renewals, while 35 percent (141,207 applications) were new requests for initial employment.