WEB DESK
India accounted for 74.2 per cent of the total number of H-1B visas issued by the US to technology professionals. In 2016 and the next year the figure increased to 75.6 per cent.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in its report in Washington today that in 2016, as many as 70,737 Indians received initial H-1B visas, which dropped to 67,815. During the same period, Indians accounted for 185,489 visas for continuing employment, which increased to 208,608 in 2017. In all there were 256,226 Indians on H1B visas in 2016 and 276,423 in 2017.
However there has been a drop in the number of new H-1B beneficiaries from India, the report said. China with a little over nine per cent, comes a distant second after India in terms of number of H-1B visas. The figures for China were 9.3 and 9.4 per cent respectively for 2016 and 2017.