{"id":1013580,"date":"2026-06-10T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013580"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:28:29","slug":"data-on-h-1b-visa-application-for-new-hires-shows-decline-in-filings-by-google-meta-microsoft-amazon-and-increase-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/data-on-h-1b-visa-application-for-new-hires-shows-decline-in-filings-by-google-meta-microsoft-amazon-and-increase-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Data on H-1B visa application for new hires shows decline in filings by Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon; and increase by &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal data reveals a sharp divide in how the tech companies are approaching the H-1B visa program. According to a report by Business Insider, while Google, Meta and Amazon have cut back on the filings for new hires, AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and chipmaker Nvidia are expanding their use of the program. Out of all the major tech companies, Anthropic recorded the biggest year-over-year percentage increase, with certified applications rising to 59 in Q2 2026 from just 10 a year ago. OpenAI on the other hand filed 63 applications, up from 20, while the filings of Nvidia climbed to 765 from 641. Recruiters say that these companies are willing to absorb higher costs and hurdles to secure elite talent. \u201cThe $100,000 H-1B visa fee represents a rounding error against the cost of not landing the right researcher,\u201d Raghu Shivakumar of Nexocean told BI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal data reveals a sharp divide in how the tech companies are approaching the H-1B visa program. According to a report by Business Insider, while Google, Meta and Amazon have cut back on the filings for new hires, AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and chipmaker Nvidia are expanding their use of the program. Out of all the major tech companies, Anthropic recorded the biggest year-over-year percentage increase, with certified applications rising to 59 in Q2 2026 from just 10 a year ago. OpenAI on the other hand filed 63 applications, up from 20, while the filings of Nvidia climbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013581,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013580\/revisions\/1013581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}