{"id":942476,"date":"2025-06-30T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942476"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:57:43","slug":"how-there-has-been-a-shift-in-companies-that-use-h-1b-visas-in-the-us-they-are-no-longer-technology-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/how-there-has-been-a-shift-in-companies-that-use-h-1b-visas-in-the-us-they-are-no-longer-technology-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"How there has been a shift in companies that use H-1B visas in the US, they are no longer technology companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s drive for innovation has long relied on the H-1B visa program to attract top-tier global talent in science and engineering. However, new data obtained by Bloomberg News reveals that a wider range of industries, including banks and telecommunications companies, are among the largest users of the programme &#8212; often through staffing and outsourcing companies that secure nearly half of the 85,000 new H-1B visas issued annually. These companies, acting as visa middlemen, are reshaping the programme\u2019s purpose, raising questions about its impact on wages and U.S. workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg\u2019s analysis, covering new H-1B hires from May 2020 to May 2024, Citigroup Inc. added 3,000 H-1B workers, outpacing tech giants like Nvidia, Oracle, and Qualcomm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s drive for innovation has long relied on the H-1B visa program to attract top-tier global talent in science and engineering. However, new data obtained by Bloomberg News reveals that a wider range of industries, including banks and telecommunications companies, are among the largest users of the programme &#8212; often through staffing and outsourcing companies that secure nearly half of the 85,000 new H-1B visas issued annually. These companies, acting as visa middlemen, are reshaping the programme\u2019s purpose, raising questions about its impact on wages and U.S. workers. According to Bloomberg\u2019s analysis, covering new H-1B hires from May 2020 [&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-942476","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\/942476","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=942476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}