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   by econdataus 7y ago

   They 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.
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   by econdataus 7y ago

   If 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.co
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   by econdataus 12y ago

   > One of the things I like about working in tech is the absence of the "they terk ur gerbs" type crap. That's better than the "We no terk ur gerb, we kreate moor gerbs!" crap (such as in the upper right of the pa
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   by econdataus 12y ago

   > Which is why we are so much poorer these days than 100 years ago with way fewer people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy I don't buy the notion that every H-1B visa worker creates jobs. Tak
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   by econdataus 12y ago

   > I am skeptical of the table you show from computerworld.com, but it is top /approvals/ not applications. Which points to the endemic issue even more of IT consulting firms doing the spray-and-pray approach of making a billion
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   by econdataus 12y ago

   You are correct that the companies who hire the majority of H-1Bs are actually outsourcing firms. You can see from the first graph and table at http://econdataus.com/h1binfo.htm that the top 11 companies in the number of H-