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H-1B Employer Data Hub
- maerF0x0 7y agoAlso related: https://h1bdata.info/index.php https://h1bdata.info/index.php
- raincom 7y agoThis site just gives LCA data. For every H1-B and employment based I-140, companies need to submit LCAs. But no data on "initial/continuing approval/denial".
- person_of_color 7y agoDoes this wage include 401K?
- protomyth 7y agoI like that they have the raw data at https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub-files https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-da...
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoI like the documentation even more, to be honest :)
- minimaxir 7y agoWhy is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
- protomyth 7y agoLooks like there was a reduction, although the 2018 data seems like it cuts off funny.
- holy_city 7y agoSpeaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes. Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administration's policies on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, not how the administration is dragging their feet on _all_ immigration processes. It's just not worth it to sponsor an H-1B, especially if you're a medium/small sized company. Costs too much time and money.
- raincom 7y agoUSCIS is delaying every immigration application--not just H1b stuff. Even though there is no explicit policy to delay applications, I heard officers are told to delay. Since there is no backlash, it is going to be like that for a while.
- Bhilai 7y agoGenuinely curious: Why don't the applicants give up and go back to their home countries ? H1B processing is very slow, Green Cards are taking decades, so is it still worth it ?
- outworlder 7y ago> Green Cards are taking decades This is only for certain countries, by the way. > Why don't the applicants give up and go back to their home countries ? Have you got any experience in moving to another country? Do you have family? So you spend years away from your country, getting promoted at work, kid at an american school (speaking English every day, with his american friends), wife going to an university or working(after enduring all the initial difficulties acclimating), for you to suddenly say: "meh, let's throw everything away and go back". Try that and let us know how that goes. Maybe if you are young and single. Now, if you ask me, should people still try to come, given the current political climate? I am not sure. It's a wonderful country and the allure of the Bay Area is too great, if you are in IT. But the immigration system makes absolutely zero sense and is very demeaning. You need a lot of mental fortitude to endure it – even more so if you are from one of the countries with queues. Make sure you and your family can deal with the uncertainty, for years.
- wierdstuff 7y agoI just downloaded them all and 2018 is larger (measuring by bytes or lines) than 2017/2016/2015.
- raincom 7y ago2018 data has 22502 rows; however, 2017 data has 55667 rows.
- wierdstuff 7y agoThe file labeled 2019 contains 22,502 rows and the fiscal 2019 year is not yet complete. The file labeled 2018 is the one that contains 55,667 rows.
- raincom 7y agoWell, right now (April 3, 2019), USCIS is accepting applications for 2020. Just decrement by 1 to get the calendar year.
- econdataus 7y agoThey may be accepting applications for 2020 but some subset won't be approved until they have the lottery. Also, it may take some time to update the file. The 2019 file will grow larger. Ignore it for now.
- econdataus 7y agoIf you look again, you'll see that it's the 2019 file that is much smaller. That is because FY 2019 is far from over. You can see a graph of the approvals for the full years of 2009 through 2018 at http://econdataus.com/h1bhub_status_09_18.png http://econdataus.com/h1bhub_status_09_18.png . As you can see, initial and continuing approvals (I.A. and C.A.) are down slightly in 2018 and the denials (I.D. and C.D.) are up slightly. You can generate this graph by going to the application at https://labor.shinyapps.io/h1bhub/ https://labor.shinyapps.io/h1bhub/ , changing Start Year to 2009, clicking the Submit button, and then clicking the Plot tab. It may take 20 or 30 seconds to generate. This application uses the USCIS data that we are discussing.
- imbusy111 7y agoLooks like Tata Consultancy went down in 2018 substantially and is coming back up again in 2019.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoTata/Infosys executives and their ilk all belong in prison with their company assets seized and redistributed. There is a place for an H1B program. The effectively indentured servitude program as it exists today has no place in America.
- screye 7y agoI understand where you come from, but that's one harsh sentiment right there. The companies are exploiting loopholes in a system to maximize profits. It is probably one of the softer evil things that companies do. If anything it is the US govts fault that their lack of regulation has let these bad actors free. You can't ezpect profit seeking companies to not act in their interests. But you should expect your govt. to reign them in when they go out of line.
- KorematsuFred 7y agoI wish they could also provide green card inventory in similar fashion. But that will help us know how many green cards are being wasted each year.
- copperx 7y agoWhat do you mean by 'wasted'?
- klipt 7y agoProbably something like this: http://www.entrylaw.com/blog/thousands-more-wasted-visas http://www.entrylaw.com/blog/thousands-more-wasted-visas
- captainredbeard 7y agoIt's surprising that so many visas are allocated to non-immediate family members. That article states over twice as many are allowed vs. employment visas.
- int_19h 7y agoIt's a quirk of the American immigration system in general - it's tilted towards family migration more so than skilled migration, especially in contrast to pretty much all other developed countries.
- captainredbeard 7y agoSounds like a quirk we should correct.
- int_19h 7y agoTo any US citizen who is interested in fixing immigration - regardless of what they mean by it - I would recommend going to the official government websites for US and Canada that describe the various available paths, and just going through what's there for the immigrants. Pretend you want to try this or that out, they usually have stuff there like eligibility tests etc. It'll give you a much better picture - of the present, and the possibilities - than anything you'll ever see in mainstream American news on the subject. https://my.uscis.gov/exploremyoptions https://my.uscis.gov/exploremyoptions https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.html https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.ht...
- yalogin 7y agoCannot wait for all the correlations and conclusions drawn from this data. I can see people from sides of the spectrum looking into this data to understand and make cases.
- agrothberg 7y agoDoes www.uscis.gov host employee level data along the lines of what sites like h1bdata.info offer?
- hammock 7y agoSome initial analysis- Of the top 20 employers, the average approval rate was 76%. Most of the employers are outsourcing subcontractors or accounting firms. But there were five employers in the top 20 with 90%+ approval rates: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
- acolytic 7y agoJust to add some context to this since I was a bit confused. The H-1B goes through the lottery to see which applications get seen by immigration. This seems to be the approval rates of the H-1B after the lottery which makes sense. The FAANG applications are probably mostly legit. 90% acceptance rate for an H-1B before lottery though seemed a little high :)
- cm2187 7y agoI am even more confused. Can we infer from any of these numbers what is the ratio for a company between original applicants, and post review, post lottery H1B approval?
- acolytic 7y agoDon't believe so, no. The lottery is supposed to be blind though, so no company has any edge for any given applicant. That said, one strategy some companies take is to pack in as many applications as possible to get as many people through.
- geodel 7y agoHaven't checked the data. But lottery is for first 3 years. After that company can keep applying for extensions. For FAANG companies extension approval rate can be higher as you have already noticed.
- tyingq 7y agoSome companies have more initial denials than approvals. For 2019, DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP, Initial Approvals: 298, Initial Denials: 564
- nraynaud 7y agois it along the same line as "shops owned by Jews" of the 1930's?
- zavi 7y agoNo
- dang 7y agoPlease don't do this here.
- nraynaud 7y agothere is a real xenophobic movement in the US, people have been persecuted and killed, and now there is a list of companies working with foreigners.
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- agrothberg 7y agoNot sure why this is flagged. I wasn't asking for identifying info just application level detail of e.g. the salary.
- dang 7y agoYour comment wasn't flagged! Assuming you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547331. The flagged comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547929, which is also the one I was replying to. I'm a bit puzzled as to how this misunderstanding arose, and it seems like it might be a UI issue. Perhaps it was because the actual flagged comment was collapsed, so it looked like the [flagged] annotation was somehow stuck to yours?
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- the_economist 7y agoApproval rates have taken a serious hit: https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1112836630589534208 https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1112836630589534208
- dccoolgai 7y agoLooks like they actually started doing their job at some point.
- demodddd 7y agoI dont see the name of my company in this list
- Sebguer 7y agoEither you're not actually typing your company's legal name, or you're adding a filter that's incorrect. Try removing everything except company name- and reduce to one word if possible. Alternatively, it's possible your company has no H1-Bs.
- demodddd 7y agoI dont see the name of my company in this list published. What does that mean?
- anonu 7y agoMaybe this can help someone: There is a total of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers released each US Fiscal Year, with the FY2020 beginning as of October 1, 2019. Out of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers, 20,000 are set aside for individuals that graduated with a Masters or equivalent (or higher) degree here in the U.S., provided the university wasn’t a for-profit entity. There is high demand for new numbers and USCIS typically receives 190K+ cases the first week of the season (ie: April 1, 2019). Thus, each year USCIS conducts a lottery to decide which of the cases will be processed . The H-1B Cap lottery first step is to decide which cases will be selected for the regular 65,000 numbers - then the lottery for the 20,000 US Advanced Degree H-1B cap being conducted after.