San diego immigration lawyer Jacob Sapochnick reports about DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification factsheet with statistics on H-1B temporary visa program for FY2012 covering the period from October 2011 to May 2012

1. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, USDOL INTERNAL
OFFICE OF FOREIGN LABOR CERTIFICATION
H-1B Temporary Visa Program - Selected Statistics, FY 2012 YTD
Applications Received
Q3 Selected Statistics, by Worker Positions Certified
YTD Q1 Q2
(to date)
Programmer Analyst 72,604
278,737 82,393 97,081 99,263
Project Manager 39,401
Applications Processed Computer Programmers 33,483
Q3 (to
Determinations YTD Q1 Q2 Systems Analyst 32,523
date)
Top 10 Software Engineer 20,718
Determinations 287,165 90,264 94,074 102,827
Occupations
Senior Systems Analyst 9,702
- Certified 243,098 74,357 78,843 89,898
Consultant 8,945
- Denied 16,346 6,105 5,232 5,009
Lead Engineer 6,587
- Withdrawn 27,721 9,802 9,999 7,920 Senior Consultant 5,908
Positions Manager 5,697
682,508 227,757 197,306 257,445
Requested
Positions New Jersey 104,383
577,298 160,208 176,902 240,188
Certified
California 84,450
Processed
287,133 90,233 94,074 102,826
Timely Michigan 79,918
Texas 66,117
Programmer Analyst
TOP OCCUPATIONS Top 10 New York 43,816
Project Manager
After the top 6, titles are 1-2% of States
Computer Massachusetts 26,386
total Programmer
12%
7%
Systems Analyst Florida 26,119
Software Engineer
6%
Illinois 25,264
Senior Systems Analyst
Consultant Pennsylvania 22,559
5%
61% Lead Engineer Virginia 13,638
3% Senior Consultant
Infosys Limited 39,404
Manager
Cognizant Technology
Remaining Solutions, U.S. Corp 36,372
Occupations
Syntel Consulting Inc. 35,450
Syntel Inc 35,314
New Jersey
TOP STATES California Top Wipro Limited 33,654
2% Michigan Employers Price Waterhouse Coopers,
15% 17% Texas
LLP 17,039
4%
4%
New York Patini Americas Inc. 16,985
Massachusetts
Mphasis Corp 13,801
15% Florida
5%
Illinois Accenture LLP 10,446
5%
8% 14%
11% Pennsylvania
Deloitte Consulting LLP 9,627
Virginia
Remaining States
All figures are rounded and not audited
AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 12061341. (Posted 06/13/12)