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Updated October 23rd, 2018 at 13:44 IST

India's TCS Among Top 10 Firms To Get Foreign Labour Certification For H-1B Visas

Tata Consultancy Services is the only Indian company among top 10 firms to get foreign labor certification for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018, according to data from the US Department of Labour

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Tata Consultancy Services is the only Indian company among top 10 firms to get foreign labour certification for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018, according to data from the US Department of Labour. The H-1B visas are the most sought-after among Indian IT professionals.

The visa program allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in the US on a non-immigrant basis in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. London-headquartered Earnest and Young, a multinational professional services firm, has emerged as the top employer to have received the certification.

In fact, Ernest and Young with 151,164 H-1B specialist occupation labour certifications accounted for the 12.4 percent of all foreign labour certification for the H-1B work visas for the fiscal year 2018 ending on September 30, according to the latest annual report released by the Department of Labour early this month. Ernest and Young are followed by Deloitte Consulting which received 69,869 H-1B specialty occupations labour conditions program. 

Indian-American owned Cognizant Technology Corp comes at number three with 47,732 specialty occupations labour conditions program, the Department of Labour said in its latest annual report.

Cognizant is followed by HCL America (42,820), K Force Inc (32,996), and Apple (26,833).  India's Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is the only Indian company in top 10 for the year 2018.  According to the Department of Labour in the fiscal year 2018, ending on September 30, TCS had received 20,755 H-1B specialty occupation labour certifications. Qualcomm Technologies (20,723), Mphasis Corporation (16,671) and Capgemini America (13,517) are the other companies in top 10.

In the 2018 fiscal year the Department of Labour's Office of Foreign Labour Certification processed 654,360 applications for the H-1B specialty occupations labour conditions program, of which 599,782 were certified, 8,627 were denied and 45,951 were withdrawn. 

READ: Three-Fourths Of H1B Visa Holders In 2018 Are Indians: The US Report

It received requests for 1,266,614 position of which 1,223,053 were certified. Among the positions certified, software developers and applications accounted for nearly one-fourth with 285,963 positions being certified. 

This was followed by computer systems analyst (176,025), Computer Occupations (120,736), Software developers, system software (67,262), accountants and auditors (54,2410 and computer programmers (53,727).

California with 309,205 certifications topped the list of States for getting maximum H-1B labour certification, followed by Texas (115,484), New York (95,722), New Jersey (65,232), Illinois (56,196), Washington (52,522) and Pennsylvania (51,471).

According to Department of labour, a specialty occupation requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of specialised knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent in the specific specialty (e.g. sciences, medicine, health care, education, biotechnology, and business specialties, etc.).

READ: US Move To Abolish H-4 Visas Set To Impact Tens Of Thousands Of Indians

Congress has limited the annual number of qualifying foreign workers who may be issued a visa or otherwise be provided the H-1B status to 65,000 with an additional 20,000 under the H-1B advanced degree exemption. 

Before applying for the H-1B visas the employer submits a labour condition application to the Department of labour. Companies can proceed with the H-1B petitions, only after they receive such a certification by the Department of labour.

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Published October 23rd, 2018 at 13:43 IST

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