Top 25 H1B Visa Employers in 2009

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The H1B visa season in FY2010 only recently concluded on December 21, 2009 over 8 months after the season began on April 1, 2009. In recent years this quota has been filled in short time after this April 1 date but due to the US economic downturn and the many lay-offs, this past year the season went far longer than was expected and was extended past the usual end of the US immigration calendar year on September 30.

While the full official final list of biggest H1B visa employers for FY2010 for the season has not been released, this preliminary list has been released for the Top employers this past US immigration year.


You will notice if you compare the top 25 employers of US visas in 2009 to the past Top 100 H1B visa employers of FY2009, that many companies like InfoSys, Tata and Satyam have dropped substantially both in the number of US visas for foreigners applied for and their overall rank. In the cases of Tata and Satyam, they are not even on this top list anymore.


This further shows again both the fallacy of the arguments perpetuated by bigots in the US Congress and the US media about foreign companies (mainly Indian) taking the jobs of US citizens.


It also shows the fear many companies have in the US. Both foreign owned and locals like Microsoft and Google were more reluctant to hire highly intelligent and qualified foreign talent for fear of unfair and unjust media reprisal in the current economic climate. That is not to mention the TARP companies who were virtually forbidden hire foreigners.


Top 25 US Visa Employers in 2009 for FY2010


1. Wipro 1,964


2. Microsoft 1,318


3. Intel 723


4. IBM 695


5. Patni Americas 609


6. Larsen & Toubro Infotech 602


7. Ernst & Young 481


8. Infosys 440


9. UST Global 344


10. Deloitte 328


11. Qualcomm 320


12. Cisco Systems 308


13. Accenture 287


14. KPMG 287


15. Oracle 272


16. Polaris Software Lab India 254


17. Rite Aid 240


18. Goldman Sachs 236


19. Deloitte & Touche 235


20. Cognizant 233


21. Mphasis 229


22. Satyam 219


23. Bloomberg 217


24. Motorola 213


25. Google 211

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