Caveat: The following is by a real number cruncher, but we haven’t confirmed the results. However, it is very believable. Check the charts. If accurate, it exposes the truth about the abuses of the H-1B visa program, which is only one of many special visa programs.
These programs aren’t bringing in geniuses. They are taking American jobs, and we are losing our sovereignty in the offing. We don’t need more legal or illegal immigration at the moment. We are locking out Americans and making them second-class citizens.
A CFO and investor, Robert Sterling, who is active online, says he downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4 million plus records) and spent the day crunching data.
He said he “went into this with an open mind, but, to be honest, I’m now extremely skeptical of how this program works,” he said.
The H-1B program has a statutory limit of 85,000 visas per year, but employers routinely receive approval for more than 800,000 applications per year.”
Mr. Sterling said, “75% are jobs paying less than $150,000. Only 25% are $150,000 plus and, of those, only 2.5% are $250,000 plus (purple).”
“Fifteen companies alone received approval for more than 20,000 applications each.”
“Looking at applications by employer NAICS code, 5,415 (computer systems design) absolutely dwarfs everything else: 1.2 million applications over five years.
The next two largest are 6,113 (universities) and 5,416 (consulting).”
“But what about the other large applicants here, which aren’t as familiar (Cognizant, Infosys, Tata)? As it turns out, these are ALL Indian companies that import H-1B tech workers en masse:
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- Cognizant (93k)
- Infosys (61k)
- Tata Consultancy Services (60k)
- Wipro
- Capgemini
- HCL
- Compunnel
- Tech Mahindra
- Mphasis
“These aren’t American companies that needed international talent to fill critical roles. They’re foreign companies that appear to have been founded to place overseas tech workers into US companies as contractors.”
Google, not surprisingly, had 45k applications for software developers alone. pic.twitter.com/3BMjUvpkrl
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
You can see where I’m going with this. A casual perusal of the data shows that this isn’t a program for the top 0.1% of talent, as it’s been described. This is simply a way to recruit hundreds of thousands of relatively lower-wage IT and financial services professionals.
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
The H-1B program isn’t just Indian companies requesting visas for IT workers, though.
The list of companies seeking visas for accountants is a who’s who of Big Four and other prominent accounting firms. EY is crushing the competition with 16k+ applications. pic.twitter.com/qjXuo7545Y
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
What jobs are these companies seeking visas for?
A metric f**k ton of IT and software roles. Over the past five years, 80k+ computer systems analysts (Cognizant is the big player here). 50k+ systems engineers/architects (Cognizant + Tata). Programmers (looks like Wipro and… pic.twitter.com/lyJGSeXG2n
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
Basically every role with 30k+ H-1B applications is for a STEM field, with the exception of accountants and auditors (49k). Most of them IT-related, at that.
There’s a little more variety in roles with smaller numbers, but the overall tilt towards STEM remains throughout.
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
You might also be interested in Mr. Sterling’s AI post. I know I was:
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The best and brightest are already here. Those kids hacking in Mom’s basement, those Americans who want to be doctors, scientists, engineers, inventors but only lack the resources or opportunities to be all they can be. The H-1B Visa should be used only to hire experts and talent when we can’t wait to develop Americans.
The whole education/employment system is awkward and not results oriented. It relies on general academia disconnected from industry or the individual to get to a generic finish line before they are considered for quality work. Getting people job ready after they are hired can take years to bring them up to speed. We could cut that time considerably if cut academia out of the picture and have industry train it’s people directly. Without all the ideology.
The military does this successfully for its people using aptitude testing, job training and placement. And who pays for it? We the people. Why not for the private sector? I propose a system of industry training corps, a medical corp, a leadership corp, an engineering corp, a literary/press corp, a science corp, a trades corp, etc…. starting in the 9th grade and within each company. All I’m saying is getting the right people in the right jobs working right away.
H1-B slots are not being filled by “the best and brightest,” nor are foreign applicants being hired because there are no Americans that can or will do these jobs. The bottom line is that H1-B is driven by the bottom line. It is cheaper to hire foreigners to come fill these positions, in violation of the H1-B visa rules. Once here, applicants are far less likely to leave the role, because then they have to find another corporate sponsor in order to stay. Applicants will also work far more hours without overtime pay because if they don’t, they’ll be replaced by another H1-B applicant in the very long line of applicants behind them. Remember, don’t believe anything our government tells us; they’re almost always lying.
About AI…..A friend of mine who has his own business now uses AI to compose letters or emails he has to send to customers, doctors and business people…..
Each letter is adapted to the person and the topic. And it is done very quickly…..
Many years ago I would sometimes do translation for him as some of those letters were in English some in French…..
Then he hired a full time secretary who did all that for a few years, but now AI does it for pennies…..
We will eventually (almost all) be replaced by AI and robots…..
Will the government pay people to stay home and do nothing? Aren’t idle hands the devil’s plaything ?…..
I wonder what our world be like then…..
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece.
Proverbs 16:27
Fascinating numbers, yet shocking…..
I had heard that H1B was bad but I had never seen the numbers and it is horrible…..
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy must know about this, about how bad it is…..
I wonder why they are still supporting that scam that hurts both American Tax payers and American workers?…..
I wish someone could show these numbers to Trump…..I am not sure he has seen them…