High H-1B denial rates hit IT-service providers most

The rejection rate for H-1Bs has remained high under the Trump administration compared to previous peak levels but a new analysis of official data reveals US branches of Indian IT companies are bearing the brunt of it, compared to American users of these temporary work visas for high skilled foreigners.

But the discrimination has nothing to do with the country of origin of these companies but the nature of their business, says the author of the report. Providers of professional IT services are worse hit than product makers.

From 2% of its petitions being rejected in 2015, Infosys saw it go up by 43 percentage points to 45% up to the third quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think-tank, of data disclosed by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which runs the H-1B programme.