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These are the companies with the most employees working on an H-1B visa: Tesla and Amazon are amongst them
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are advising the Trump administration to bring in more foreign tech workers, which would necessitate H-1B visas.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the election in November, the president-elect named Elon Musk and former rival Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE.
The two billionaires recently advised the Trump administration to issue more H-1B visas in order to bring in more highly skilled foreign technology workers to the United States.
The views of the DOGE co-heads sparked an online debate between the tech industry, which argues that issuing these visas would attract talented workers to the country, and Trump’s hard right supporters who insist there is a need to hire U.S. workers.
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What is an H-1B visa?
The U.S. Department of Labor says the H-1B program allows employers to hire non-immigrant foreigners in specialized occupations who are “of distinguished merit and ability.”
Issuing the H-1B visa intends to help employers obtain needed business skills and abilities from qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the U.S.
The visa aims to attract professionals with a “theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge,” including engineering talent the tech industry needs.
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Companies with the most employees on an H-1B visa
Musk knows first-hand about the benefits of this type of visa, having worked on one himself in his earlier days in the United States. Also, his company Tesla is one of the companies with the biggest number of employees on an H-1B.
Here are the top 20 companies with the biggest number of employees working on this visa, according to the The National Foundation for American Policy, via CBS News.
| Company | Approved H-1B petitions |
|---|---|
| Amazon | 3,871 |
| Cognizant | 2,837 |
| Infosys | 2,504 |
| Tata Consultancy Services | 1,452 |
| IBM | 1,348 |
| Microsoft | 1,264 |
| HCL America | 1,248 |
| 1,058 | |
| Capgemini | 1,041 |
| Meta Platforms | 920 |
| Deloitte | 891 |
| Apple | 864 |
| Intel | 851 |
| Accenture | 833 |
| LTIMindtree | 798 |
| Tesla | 742 |
| Ernst & Young | 741 |
| Goldman Sachs | 678 |
| Wipro | 609 |
| Walmart | 654 |
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