According to a report by “News Weekly” based on analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), out of the top 25 employers who were granted H-1B visas for initial employment in the 2025 fiscal year, only three were Indian companies.
The NFAP report revealed that in the 2025 fiscal year, the top seven Indian companies received a total of 4,573 H-1B visa applications for initial employment, a 70% decrease from the 2015 fiscal year and a 37% decrease from the 2024 fiscal year.
Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google dominated in the number of approved H-1B visas for initial employment.
The analysis data by NFAP was sourced from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub.
Stuart Anderson, the executive director of NFAP, told “News Weekly”, “The data shows that Indian companies are now using relatively fewer H-1B visas to provide IT services to American businesses, while major American tech companies are investing billions of dollars in developing artificial intelligence and are hiring a large number of personnel, including recent foreign graduates from American universities, to help build AI in the U.S.”
Indian tech companies such as Infosys USA, TCS North America, and Wipro America have legally registered subsidiaries, branches, or client projects in the U.S., allowing them to apply for H-1B visas as American companies. Their H-1B applications are submitted by their entities in the U.S., and once approved, visa beneficiaries go to work in the U.S.
The USCIS Employer Data Hub provides the names of employers and the number of H-1B applications they have submitted. The public reports do not explicitly state “Indian companies,” so determining whether a company is Indian requires checking the registration location or headquarters of each company.
According to the immigration agency’s report, 71% of the approved H-1B visas in the 2024 fiscal year were for individuals born in India, ranking first; individuals born in China ranked second, accounting for around 12%.
Anderson told “News Weekly”, “H-1B visas are crucial because they are often the only way to employ high-skilled foreign citizens long-term in the U.S., and approximately 70% of full-time graduate students in key science and technology fields at U.S. universities are international students.”
President Trump has publicly expressed his longstanding support for H-1B visas, acknowledging the importance of bringing in high-end talent while criticizing U.S. companies for using H-1B visas to bring in “cheap labor.” President Trump issued an executive order raising the H-1B visa application fee to $200,000, aiming to prevent companies from abusing H-1B visas to acquire “cheap labor” and pushing them to use the visas for high-skilled and high-paying positions, thereby making the program more inclined towards hiring “top talent” or “more qualified senior executives”.