Amazon had the highest number of approved H-1B petitions for initial employment in FY 2025, totaling 4,644, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis of USCIS data.
Meta Platforms received 1,555 H-1B approved petitions, followed by Microsoft with 1,394 and Google with 1,050 petitions.
For the first time, the top four positions for new H1B petition approvals were occupied by these four big U.S. technology enterprises.
The most recent data also highlights another big shift. In FY 2025, just three Indian-based businesses were among the top 25 employers whose H-1B petitions for first employment were approved.
In FY 2025, the top seven Indian-based companies had only 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment, a 70% drop from FY 2015 and 37% fewer than in FY 2024.
While well-known companies garner the most attention, 28,277 different employers in the United States were approved to hire at least one new H-1B visa holder in FY 2025. Sixty-one percent of employers were approved for a single H-1B petition, and 95% were approved for ten or fewer new H-1B petitions in FY 2025.
Over half of new H-1B petitions went to employers with 15 or fewer approvals for H-1B petitions for initial employment, and 72% went to employers with 100 or fewer approvals.
In FY 2025, Amazon had the most approved H-1B petitions for continuing employment, with 14,532, followed by TCS (5,293), Microsoft (4,863), Meta Platforms (4,740), Apple (4,610) and Google (4,509).
These numbers do not represent individual employees since an H-1B visa holder may be approved multiple times for continuing employment during the same year if they change locations.
H-1B petitions for initial employment are primarily for new employment, which, for companies, are cases counted against the H-1B annual limit of 65,000, with an exemption of 20,000 for individuals with master’s degrees or higher from a U.S. university.
In FY 2025, approximately 442,000 unique beneficiaries were entered in the H-1B registration process, indicating that USCIS rejected more than 300,000 H-1B beneficiaries due to the 85,000 annual limit.
The Trump administration has imposed a $100,000 fee on all new H-1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025. The Trump administration’s policies could lead to fewer international students attending U.S. universities and more companies sending work and resources outside the United States.