Indian outsourcing companies garnering most visas, QC is not in the top ten list, you dry these companies out by limiting H1b - jobs likely to stay here..
The government received 618,266 applications for the 85,000 available H-1B visas in fiscal year 2016, according to the Department of Labor.
Consulting and outsourcing companies such as Deloitte Consulting, Cognizant Technologies (CTSH) , Infosys (INFY) and Wipro (WIT) filed the most petitions, according to the Department of Labor. Apple made the top ten, submitting more than 23,000 petitions, or 1.9% of the total.
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Howard University professor Ron Hira compiled a broader list of workers actually hired with H-1B visas, based on 2014 data, for testimony to to Congress last year.
Aside from the large outsourcing companies, IBM (IBM) was seventh with close to 1,500 H-1B hirings.
Some big names in tech fall outside the top ten. Amazon was 11th with 877 H-1B hirings in 2014, Computer Sciences (CSC) was 12th (873), Microsoft was 14th (850), Alphabet was 15th (728), Intel (INTC) was 16th (700) and Apple was 20th (443).
Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 30 and has been updated