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We read 1.57M US Labor Dept H-1B filings (FY2024 to June 2026). Five findings 🧵 1. Filings fell 8.1% like-for-like this year. 20 IT-services firms filed 32% fewer and caused a third of the drop. TCS −56%, IBM −64%. Infosys +18%, Nvidia +71%.

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2. Most sponsors are tiny: 51.6% of the 63,545 employers that filed in FY2025 filed exactly one. 3. Who you work for matters more than the visa. Median offered wage for software engineers: Salesforce $211,686, Meta $203,350, Google $186,000, TCS $112,986.

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4. Green cards: 23 PERM certifications per 100 LCAs overall. Intel 31.9, Microsoft 24.9, Infosys 0.7. 5. Only 0.68% of LCAs were denied, which says nothing about visa approvals. Full analysis, methods and scripts: https://locaihost.org/blog/h1b-sponsors-2026/ #h1b