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