{"id":960859,"date":"2025-09-11T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960859"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:08:36","slug":"indian-it-firms-slash-h-1b-usage-by-46-sponsorships-down-44-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/11\/indian-it-firms-slash-h-1b-usage-by-46-sponsorships-down-44-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT firms slash H-1B usage by 46%, sponsorships down 44% in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest IT services firms has reduced its reliance on H1B visas. Over the past five years, the country\u2019s six largest IT employers\u2014Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, and LTIMindtree\u2014have cut H-1B visa issuances by an average of 46% approximately. <\/p>\n<p>Global IT Consulting firms reduce H-1B filings <\/p>\n<p>TCS stood out among its peers in FY25 due to its large global workforce of 600,000 employees. According to data by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in 2025 it remained the second-largest H-1B sponsor with 5,505 visas, after Amazon. But it shows a huge drop from 10,525 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest IT services firms has reduced its reliance on H1B visas. Over the past five years, the country\u2019s six largest IT employers\u2014Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, and LTIMindtree\u2014have cut H-1B visa issuances by an average of 46% approximately. Global IT Consulting firms reduce H-1B filings TCS stood out among its peers in FY25 due to its large global workforce of 600,000 employees. According to data by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in 2025 it remained the second-largest H-1B sponsor with 5,505 visas, after Amazon. But it shows a huge drop from 10,525 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960859","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}