Talent is distributed, opportunity isn’t.
This list could be used as a weapon against companies listed herein but I can’t fix xenophobia. It’s already hard enough for a foreign U.S. university graduate (like me) on an F-1 “non-immigrant” visa to find any company willing to hire them.
Getting hired out of school isn’t the hardest part. An F-1 OPT period expires after 2.5 years. That’s a heartbeat in someone’s career. Educated, trained, and experienced workers who are legally required to seek work in their own field of study and to be paid a market wage are routinely forced (like I was) to upend their life and return to their home country. At home, they often don’t have the student and professional networks they worked so hard to establish in the U.S.
Name | H-1B | H-1B transfer | EB-1/2 |
---|---|---|---|
Adobe | Yes | Yes | N/A |
AirBnB | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Amazon | Yes | Yes | N/A |
American Airlines | Yes | Yes | N/A |
American Express | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Apple | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Autodesk | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Bloomberg | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Chase | Yes | Yes | N/A |
CVS | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Dell | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Dropbox | Yes | Yes | N/A |
eBay | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Expedia | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Yes | Yes | N/A | |
General Motors | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Yes | Yes | N/A | |
Groupon | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Harvard University | Yes | Yes | N/A |
IBM | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Intel | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Intuit | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Yes | Yes | N/A | |
Lyft | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Mayo Clinic | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Microsoft | Yes | Yes | N/A |
MIT | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Netflix | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Nike | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Nvidia | Yes | Yes | N/A |
PayPal | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Pluralsight | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Salesforce | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Spring | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Square | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Staples | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Symantec | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Tesla | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Uber | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Uber | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Wayfair | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Zillow | Yes | Yes | N/A |
If your company (or a company you know of) is publicly willing to hire the best people the world has to offer, please submit a Pull Request adding it to the list below. The H-1B column signifies the company is willing to sponsor H-1B candidates which can be a lengthy process. Since H-1B visas are capped at two 3-year terms, it can be crucial for someone willing to plant roots in the U.S. to know they have a path to permanent residency with EB-1 or EB-2 applications.
Although permanent residency should remove constant threat under which so-called “non-immigrant” workers live, they’re still taxed without representation until they become elligible for citizenship after 5 years.
Source: H1B Salary Database