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Who really powers America’s tech and skilled jobs pipeline?
The H1-B visa is the gateway to America’s high-skilled jobs, and the numbers tell the story: India dominates with 73% of approvals, while China and the rest of the world shrink. Nigeria is surging, with approvals climbing from under 200 in 2021 to nearly 900 in 2024. Most H1-Bs go into tech (65%), with giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Infosys leading hires. Behind the statistics lies a clear picture, global talent pipelines are being reshaped, and the U.S. tech industry is the biggest magnet.
These numbers reveal where the world’s brightest minds are coming from and which companies are snapping them up.

TOP 10 NATIONALITIES ON H1-B VISA — 2025

1 🇮🇳India — make up over 70% of Total

2 🇨🇳China
3 🇵🇭Philippines
4 🇨🇦Canada
5 🇰🇷South Korea
6 🇲🇽Mexico
7 🇵🇰Pakistan
8 🇹🇼Taiwan
9 🇧🇷Brazil
10 🇳🇵Nepal
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1969472067054489670

H1B VISA APPROVALS/ ISSUANCE BY FISCAL YEAR TO NIGERIANS

FY 2018 — 391
FY 2019 — 385
FY 2020 — 232
FY 2021 — 198
FY 2022 — 588
FY 2023 — 740
FY 2024 — 880
(Visa Grader)
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1969406396371272161

THE JOB OF MOST H1-B APPROVALS — 2023

1 Computer related — 64.9%
2 Archi, Engr, Surveying — 9.4%
3 Education — 6.2%
4 Admin specialislzations — 5.0%
5 Medicine & Health — 4.4%
6 Maths & Physical Sci — 2.7%
7 Life Sciences — 1.9%
8 Managerial & Officials — 1.4%
9 Misc Prof'nal & Tech, Mgr — 1.2%
10 Social Sciences — 0.8%
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1969660037258789157

EMPLOYERS WITH MOST H1-B APPROVALS — 2023

Top 12
1 Amazon .com Services — 11,299
2 Cognizant Tech Soln — 7,654
3 Infosys Ltd — 7,349
4 Tata Consultancy — 6,914
5 Google LLC — 5,465
6 Microsoft Corp. — 4,793
7 Apple Inc — 3,821
8 Meta Platforms Inc — 3,371
9 JPMorgans Chase Co. — 3,066
10 Capgemini Amercia Inc — 2,831
11 HCL America Inc — 2,713
12 Deloitte Consultint LLP — 2,689
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1969658658398036183

About 3 in 4 H1-B workers approved in 2023 were born in India.

Indian-born rose from 51% in 2000 to 73% in 2023

🇨🇳China — 9% in 2000 to 12% in 2023.

🌎Rest of the world — 40% in 2000 to 16% in 2023.
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1969661101890507061
(Pew Research)

#Statisense

Na marriage 95% of Nigerians dey take collect papers

My sons must be tech savvy on a professional level. Tech dominates in the top dollar career industry.

India is dominating because of tech. Tech it is and it's the way for my children.

Didn't expect to find Nepal in the list, even if top 50

Tech, medicine, India must dominate. Africa need to brace up. The world is moving pass us

indians are top because they are gaming the system.

after gaming the system, then they invite all their families with F1 visa

Now Indians in tech in the US also game the system through nepotism.

Some of those beneficiaries definitely wrote the GRE and got a very high score.

You will never find Nigerians dominating a list like this. You will rather find them dominating in low paid jobs even though they are more educated than their bosses in the office.

But Nigerians made more noise about the news than these countries.
It doesn't even consign us.

barnaby04:
You will never find Nigerians dominating a list like this. You will rather find them dominating in low paid jobs even though they are more educated than their bosses in the office.

Experience over education in western world. We love degrees in Nigeria

JasonNOTStatham:
Didn't expect to find Nepal in the list, even if top 50

They are just another branch of Indians. They travel alot too

Indians are cheating the system

Seun please 40 character

Akalia:
My sons must be tech savvy on a professional level. Tech dominates in the top dollar career industry.

"They must be"!
Very myopic and archaic reasoning! Are you the one to tell your son what to be? What if his break thru will come from another profession?
Look at Late Fela Anikulapo kuti his parents wanted him to be a medical doctor by force, he went to medical school briefly but left secretly to Trinity School of music where he studied music his heart desire. Even in death his popularity grows, possibly nobody would have known him if he didn't follow his heart desire.

The company that does consultancy for H1-b visa in the U:s:A is an indian company...

so they will favor their fellow indians...

Respect for the Indians na dem japa pass honestly.
They are everywhere.

Google CEO is Indian.
Microsoft CEO is Indian
Even FBI director na Indian too.

But we Africans will always hide info every time and not help our fellow brothers… or family members… e no good at all.

miketayo:
But Nigerians made more noise about the news than these countries.
It doesn't even consign us.

Same way we're making noise about AI...

Country wey people never chop bellefull, dey fear how AI go take their jobs.

flexyrule:
Same way we're making noise about AI...

Country wey people never chop bellefull, dey fear how AI go take their jobs.

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I just taya for my people. We have opinions on every other thing except what consigns 9ja

Once again the indians have casted legit hustle

motymop:
indians are top because they are gaming the system.

after gaming the system, then they invite all their families with F1 visa

Now Indians in tech in the US also game the system through nepotism.

Those indians.You see them in Gas stations,tech and in different businesses. And they are like that all over the world. And they bring their whole family in.From lowly jobs to the biggest jobs ,they are there

ednut1:
Na marriage 95% of Nigerians dey take collect papers

Exactly.

And the worse part is that they're marrying grandmothers not even young girls.

Yet you’ll see Nigerians crying Trump this trump that like we are even contributing much to the USA economy, if na UK we dey try but not US.

Thunderfayamods:
"They must be"!
Very myopic and archaic reasoning! Are you the one to tell your son what to be? What if his break thru will come from another profession?
Look at Late Fela Anikulapo kuti his parents wanted him to be a medical doctor by force, he went to medical school briefly but left secretly to Trinity School of music where he studied music his heart desire. Even in death his popularity grows, possibly nobody would have known him if he didn't follow his heart desire.

poor men, always meddling in other people's business. Shake my head.

Indians only employ their own its a racket !! very rancid people

It's not surprising to see India at the top, they are extremely good at being economic migrants.

Lol even ordinary Ghana Legit people with documentation in Ghana India still pass any country even Nigeria wey dey close to Ghana.....

TheEnforcer:
Those indians.You see them in Gas stations,tech and in different businesses. And they are like that all over the world. And they bring their whole family in.From lowly jobs to the biggest jobs ,they are there

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The good thing about them is that they help their people a lot. But the bad thing about them is that they are very racist and I fear the future. They will make it difficult for others to get to those companies they dominate.
They are worst than the whites.

TheEnforcer:
Those indians.You see them in Gas stations,tech and in different businesses. And they are like that all over the world. And they bring their whole family in.From lowly jobs to the biggest jobs ,they are there

There is a trick they use...they own those gas stations by cutting their competitors with cheap labor.

Bring all families from India through fraudulent means, get them to start working on shifts in the gas station they bought...cut out other competitions and then buy up the competition...they did similar stuff with motels

Right now, the Indians are on the rise and the hottest group. They are occupying top positions, and It’s happening everywhere, all over the world. They achieve this because they are always together, on the basic level , everyone has a clique or peer group. Their power is their togetherness, but an average Nigerian is smarter than an Indian