I like that they have the raw data at <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub-files" rel="nofollow">https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-da...</a>
Some initial analysis-<p>Of the top 20 employers, the average approval rate was 76%. Most of the employers are outsourcing subcontractors or accounting firms. But there were five employers in the top 20 with 90%+ approval rates: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
Cannot wait for all the correlations and conclusions drawn from this data. I can see people from sides of the spectrum looking into this data to understand and make cases.
Maybe this can help someone:<p>There is a total of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers released each US Fiscal Year, with the FY2020 beginning as of October 1, 2019.<p>Out of 85,000 new H-1B visa numbers, 20,000 are set aside for individuals that graduated with a Masters or equivalent (or higher) degree here in the U.S., provided the university wasn’t a for-profit entity.<p>There is high demand for new numbers and USCIS typically receives 190K+ cases the first week of the season (ie: April 1, 2019). Thus, each year USCIS conducts a lottery to decide which of the cases will be processed .<p>The H-1B Cap lottery first step is to decide which cases will be selected for the regular 65,000 numbers - then the lottery for the 20,000 US Advanced Degree H-1B cap being conducted after.
Approval rates have taken a serious hit: <a href="https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1112836630589534208" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1112836630589534208</a>