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Don't know if this is the forum to ask or you have the knowledge but i'll ask anyway. Is there a reason why India alone receives more than 70% of all H1b visa (

Don't know if this is the forum to ask or you have the knowledge but i'll ask anyway. Is there a reason why India alone receives more than 70% of all H1b visa (more than twice every other country combined)? Is this by design or accident? (Also I find most immigration question forums tend to be dominated/overwhelmed by Indians and their specific immigration questions) *update with relevant link: https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h1b-visas https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h...

baseethrowaway 9y ago
Statistics. Imagine 70% of all applicants being Indian nationals. Randomly sample all the applicants and with a big enough sample size, the distribution will be the same, i.e. ~70% of your samples will be Indian nationals. Countries that have the most people in the world have the most people in the H-1B application process as well. China and India are my guesses, without looking at the publicly available data on H-1B applications. You don't see as many Chinese people speaking about it online because they, on average, don't speak English as well as people from India.
- analyst74 9y ago
  I'm surprised to see a large gap between Indian and Chinese (6:1). Sampling SoMa rush hour traffic, I would expected something like 3:2 to or even 1:1 ratio.
  - Gerrymander 9y ago
    Sf and the bay area has a large Chinese population that has been here for a long time (from before the times of the Gold Rush). A good chunk of the people you see are probably Chinese americans, not H1b/Green card holders
- Gerrymander 9y ago
  You also have to account for the fact that many indian IT shops are actively gaming the system. There's a lot of visa fraud wrt H-1B primarily from india.
mooreds 9y ago
Here's the PDF if you want to crunch the numbers: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/H-1B/h1b-fy-12-characteristics.pdf https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... This is FY 2011-2012, not sure if there are more recent PDFs.
- baseethrowaway 9y ago
  We can go for the raw data. https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#dis https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#... 170+ MB .xlsx. Tried doing some stuff with it on a 12 core 64 GB RAM workstation. Took way too long and LibreOffice crashed a few times. Google Sheets doesn't want to touch it even.
  - kofejnik 9y ago
    pandas is your friend

baseethrowaway 9y ago

Statistics. Imagine 70% of all applicants being Indian nationals. Randomly sample all the applicants and with a big enough sample size, the distribution will be the same, i.e. ~70% of your samples will be Indian nationals. Countries that have the most people in the world have the most people in the H-1B application process as well. China and India are my guesses, without looking at the publicly available data on H-1B applications. You don't see as many Chinese people speaking about it online because they, on average, don't speak English as well as people from India.

analyst74 9y ago
I'm surprised to see a large gap between Indian and Chinese (6:1). Sampling SoMa rush hour traffic, I would expected something like 3:2 to or even 1:1 ratio.
- Gerrymander 9y ago
  Sf and the bay area has a large Chinese population that has been here for a long time (from before the times of the Gold Rush). A good chunk of the people you see are probably Chinese americans, not H1b/Green card holders
Gerrymander 9y ago
You also have to account for the fact that many indian IT shops are actively gaming the system. There's a lot of visa fraud wrt H-1B primarily from india.

mooreds 9y ago

Here's the PDF if you want to crunch the numbers: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/H-1B/h1b-fy-12-characteristics.pdf https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... This is FY 2011-2012, not sure if there are more recent PDFs.

baseethrowaway 9y ago
We can go for the raw data. https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#dis https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#... 170+ MB .xlsx. Tried doing some stuff with it on a 12 core 64 GB RAM workstation. Took way too long and LibreOffice crashed a few times. Google Sheets doesn't want to touch it even.
- kofejnik 9y ago
  pandas is your friend