Not Ratan Tata’s TCS, Narayana Murthy’s Infosys or Microsoft…; THIS company has most H-1B Visa employees, its name is…
By Gazi Abbas Shahid
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H-1B Visa Fees: US President Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will hike the fee for H1-B visas to a staggering $100000 annually. The move is expected to impact Indian citizens the most as they are largest group of foreign workers who use the H-1B non-immigrant visa programme to work in the US.
But do you which tech firms have the highest number of H-1B Visa employees and will now be forced to pay a whopping $100000 per year to procure H1-B visas for their workers?
Which companies employ most H-1B visa workers?
According to various sources Amazon.com Services LLC has over 10000 workers who work in the US on H-1B visas making it the largest employer of H-1B visa workers followed by Tata Groups Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)– Indias largest IT services exporter (5505 employees) Microsoft (5189) and Facebook parent Meta with 5123 employees.
Here are the top 10 largest H-1B visa employers?
Amazon.com Services LLC (10044)
TCS- Tata Consultancy Services (5505)
Microsoft Corporation (5189)
Meta Inc. (5123)
Apple Inc. (4202)
Google LLC (4181)
Cognizant Technology Solutions (2493)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2440)
Walmart Associates Inc. (2390)
Deloitte Consulting LLP (2353)
Why Trump hiked H-1B visa fees?
Donald Trumps move to hike H-1B visa fees is being viewed as an extension of his America First policy as his administration ramps up efforts to crack down on immigration. Experts believe that costly H-1B visas will force US firms to cut down on foreign workforce and force them to hire US citizens at higher salaries driving up operational costs.
Trump has also cited alleged abuse of the H-1B programme a national security threat as he signed the proclamation restricting entry of certain non-immigrant workers.
The H-1B non-immigrant visa programme was created to bring temporary workers into the US to perform additive high-skilled functions but it has been deliberately exploited to replace rather than supplement American workers with lower-paid lower-skilled labour Trump said in the proclamation.
