US MNCs leaned on H-1B visas more in the past eight years
H-1B visa holding employees in the last eight years even as Indian IT services firms cut their reliance, an ET analysis showed.
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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 saw the highest increase at 478%, followed by Meta Platforms (earlier Facebook) at 244%, Google at 137%, Apple at 94% and Microsoft at 70%.
The companies did not respond to ET queries by press time on Thursday.
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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