The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ international skilled workers. This report highlights key data and statistics related to H-1B visas: number of visas issued, nationalities, top US employers requesting H-1B visas, top occupations of applicants, and more.

1. Complete H-1B
visa statistics
and data
2019/20

2. Until President Donald Trump has suspended H-1B
visas, this visa program remained one of the most
popular among international high-skilled workers.
The H-1B visa program was created in 1990 to fill
gaps in the high-skilled job market of the United
States.
In total, almost 3.5 million H-1B visas were issued
in the last 30 years, with about 116,000 granted
to foreign workers each year on average, according
to data by the U.S. Department of State.

4. According to USCIS data, almost 72% of all H-1B
visas in 2019 were approved for Indians and 13%
for the Chinese.
These categories of migrants account for 278,491
and 50,609 visas, respectively (including visas that
were extended).
Canadians come third with 1.2% of visas. All other
nationalities are trailing far behind, each having less
than 1% of approved visa petitions.

6. About 65% of H-1B visas certified in the first half
of 2020 account for the IT sector, with 8 companies
out of the top 10 employers that requested H-1B
visas being technology corporations (according
to Myvisajobs.com data).
Almost 9% of visas (or 15,150) in the first half of
2020 were requested by Cognizant — an American
multinational corporation that provides IT services.

8. Software engineers and software developers are
the top IT occupations by the number of H-1B visas
in the first half of 2020. They account for 7.5 and
5% of visas, respectively.
Senior systems analysts, IT managers, and senior
software engineers also make the top 5
occupations.

10. Almost one-fourth (25%) of H-1B visas certified
in the first half of 2020 account for 10 cities, with
New York (almost 4% of visas), San Francisco (3%),
and Seattle (almost 3%) being the top 3 leaders.
About 10% of visas in the top 10 were certified for
workers employed in Californian cities: San
Francisco, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and San Jose,
with the latter three forming the Silicon Valley with
hundreds of tech companies and the majority of IT
opportunities.

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