Tata Consultancy Services is the only Indian company among the top 10 firms to get foreign labour certification for H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018, according to data from the US Department of Labour.<\/p>\n
The visa programme 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.<\/p>\n
London-headquartered Earnst and Young, a multinational professional services firm, has emerged as the top employer to have received the certification.<\/p>\n
In fact, Ernst and Young with 1,51,164 H-1B specialist occupation labour certifications accounted for the 12.4 per cent 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.<\/p>\n
Ernst and Young is followed by Deloitte Consulting which received 69,869 H-1B specialty occupations labour conditions programme. Indian-American owned Cognizant Technology Corp comes at number three with 47,732 specialty occupations labour conditions programme, the department of labour said in its latest annual report.<\/p>\n
Cognizant is followed by HCL America , K Force Inc and Apple . India\u2019s Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is the only Indian company in top 10 for the year 2018.<\/p>\n
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 are the other companies in top 10.<\/p>\n
In the 2018 fiscal year, the department of labour\u2019s office of foreign labour certification processed 6,54,360 applications for the H-1B specialty occupations labour conditions programme, of which 5,99,782 were certified, 8,627 were denied and 45,951 were withdrawn. It received requests for 12,66,614 position of which 12,23,053 were certified.<\/p>\n
Among the positions certified, software developers and applications accounted for nearly one-fourth with 2,85,963 positions being certified. This was followed by computer systems analyst (1,76,025), computer occupations , software developers, system software , accountants and auditors .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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