American tech giants banking on H-1B visas like never before, while their Indian counterparts are staying away
H-1B visa holding employees in the last eight years even as Indian IT services firms cut their reliance, as per an ET analysis.
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India’s top seven IT services companies including TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HCL have brought down their dependency on H-1B employees by 56% in the last eight years. In the same period, use of the US’s premier work visa soared by 189% at Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple combined, analysis of H-1B beneficiary approval data from US Citizenship and Immigration Services showed.
Amazon experienced the largest growth at 478%, followed by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) with a 244% increase, Google at 137%, Apple at 94%, and Microsoft at 70%.
The companies did not respond to ET queries by press time on Thursday.
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The shift likely stems from demand for specialised tech talent across business sectors, fueled by digital transformation, cloud computing, and AI developments, said Vic Goel, managing partner at US-based corporate immigration law firm Goel & Anderson, LLC. “US companies must rely on H-1B visas to fill roles with skills not easily sourced domestically, especially in emerging tech areas.”
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