Green Cards from US Tech Firms are being offered to H-1B Work Visa Holders

Previously, it has been observed that Indian employees among other foreign workers required quite some time to get permanent residency in the US. It would even take longer than a decade at times. However, the US companies have put forth an offer to support their employees.

Since the uncertainty of H-1B work visa extensions, it had become essential for the American companies to take a step to make their skilled working lot stay in the country. Which has resulted in multiple US firms offering to sponsor permanent residency to their Indian employees.

As per the recent study by the National Foundation for American Policy, the rate of rejection for the extension of H-1B work visas have increased about 18 percent since the first quarter of the year 2019. It has increased by 4 percent in 2016 and went up to three times to 12 percent in 2018.

According to the data by the Labor Department, 113,014 permanent residency applications were received by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the organization that processes these applications. This number was about 8.3 percent higher than the Fiscal Year 2018. About 53.2 percent of the applications were made for the Indian citizens and the majority of the applications were from H-1B work visa holders constituting about 68.2 percent of the total.

Taking a look at the analytics, it has been observed that Amazon had filed 3,247 permanent residency applications after holding the second rank in the highest number of H-1B work visa applications in the Fiscal Year 2019. Even Cognizant and Google did not stand back. 2,929 and 2,425 permanent residency applications were filed by Cognizant and Google respectively.

As per the Times report, others in the top ten companies that applied for permanent residency for the employees included Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, Cisco, and Deloitte — besides Indian firms like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys at number five and seven, respectively – all with more than 1,000 applications each.

Considering the Times reports, the top ten companies that have applied for permanent residency for their employees include Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and Deloitte. On number seven and five are the Indian firms Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, respectively. Over 1,000 applications from each company have been filed.