Recent US Report Reveals That 75 Percent Of H1B Visa Holders Are Indians

20 Oct 2018

Approximately 75 percent of visa holders of H-1B as of Oct 5 are citizens of India, an official report of the US has stated.

As per the U.S.C.I.S, as many as 419,637 international citizens were working in the USA on visas of H-1B as on Oct 5. Of these, 309,986 are from India, the U.S.C.I.S stated in its official report H-1B appeals by gender and nation of the birth financial year of 2018.

The official report shows a huge gender difference - only 25 percent visa holders of H-1B are females. Of the 419,637 visa holders of H-1B, 106,096 (or 25.3 percent) are females as upon 311,997 (or 74.3 percent males), it announced.

Gender Difference is Even More Among Indians

Of the 309,986 citizens of India on visas of H-1B in the USA this Oct, only 63,220 or 20.4 percent are females while approximately 245,517 Indians on visas of H-1B or 79.2% are males. As common as 1,249 Indian citizens on visas of H-1B have been identified in the missing/others category.

Indians, who consider for 73.9% of the entire visa holders of H-1B in the USA, are accompanied by a further Chinese with 47,172 on visas of H-1B, estimating for 11.2% of the entire international citizens on this work visas.

The Philippines is the single nation in top 10 visa holders of H-1B  wherein there are a high number of females (1712 or 52.7%) on visas of H-1B than males (1519 or 46.7%) on H-1B visas. As of Oct 5, as common as 3,250 specialists from the Philippines were on visas of H-1B.

The recommended regulations, it stated, is intended to bringing the genuine and the brightest from over the globe, stop the exploitation of visas of H-1B which is the same opinion with the hire American plan of the administration of Trump.

The U.S.C.I.S is also intending to launch a system of pre-registration for international students in the USA. Technically it is probable that if 85,000 such students benefit in obtaining visas of H-1B, no abroad candidates could apply.

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