Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:47pm on 01 Dec 2025,Monday Business
H-1B visa approvals for India's top seven IT companies plummeted to a 10-year low in fiscal year 2025, with only 4,573 petitions approved for initial employment, a 70% decline since 2015 and 37% drop from 2024. TCS remained the sole Indian firm among top five employers, securing 846 initial and 5,293 continuing employment approvals, though facing increased rejection rates. American tech giants Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google dominated initial approvals, hiring foreign talent for AI development projects after investing billions in artificial intelligence. The shift reflects Indian IT firms delivering services with fewer H-1B visas while US companies aggressively recruit foreign-born graduates to build domestic AI capabilities, fundamentally transforming skilled immigration patterns. (PC: Bloomberg & India Today)
