H-1B Sponsors List 2026: Companies That Sponsor H-1B (USCIS Data)

The companies that sponsor the most H-1B visas in 2026 are Amazon, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Apple, Microsoft, Cognizant, Google and Meta, according to the latest release of the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, which covers fiscal year 2026 through June 30, 2026. Amazon alone, across its four U.S. hiring entities, had 12,994 H-1B petitions approved in those nine months, which is more than Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys combined. This H-1B sponsors list ranks the top 50 employers in that file, explains what the counts mean, and shows how to find out which companies that sponsor H-1B are hiring this week, because the data hub has raw filing numbers but does not tell you which H-1B visa sponsors are actively hiring right now.

H-1B sponsorship in 2026 by the numbers

• USCIS approved 270,419 H-1B petitions and denied 8,227 between October 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026, which is an approval rate of about 97%.
• Of those approvals, 85,724 were for new employment, which is the category that matters most if you are not already working in H-1B status, and the approval rate in that category was about 96.6%.
• More than 43,000 employer names had at least one approval, but only 588 had 50 or more, 276 had 100 or more, and 26 had 1,000 or more.
• Those 588 employers make up about 1.4% of the names in the file and account for just over half of all approvals, so H-1B sponsorship really is concentrated among a relatively small number of companies.

The top 50 H-1B sponsors in fiscal year 2026

This table lists employers exactly as USCIS ranks them, by legal filing name. The new employment column is the better guide for a job seeker, because a high total can come mostly from extensions and amendments for people a company already employs. Meta is the clearest example: it had 2,563 approvals but only 219 for new employment, because most of its approvals were for people already in H-1B status, either joining from another employer or changing roles inside Meta.

Linked names go to the company's page on Scoutify, where you can see its open roles. Some rows are the same company under different filing names: Amazon files under four entities, and Capgemini America appears twice, under two spellings of its name.

H-1B sponsors by tier

A 50-row table is hard to act on, so here is the same data grouped the way I would use it. The thresholds are approvals in the first nine months of fiscal year 2026, and the notes describe the kinds of roles each company tends to sponsor.

Tier 1: Highest volume sponsors (1,000+ approvals)

• Amazon had 12,994 approvals across Amazon.com Services, Amazon Development Center, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Data Services, and it sponsors software engineering, data science and product management roles at all levels.
• Google had 3,180 approvals for engineering, research and product roles, and it has strong new grad sponsorship.
• Microsoft had 3,688 approvals, with broad sponsorship across engineering, product management and research.
• Meta had 2,563 approvals for engineering and machine learning roles; it is selective, but its volume is high.
• Apple had 3,879 approvals across hardware and software engineering, machine learning and design.
• Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro had 4,113, 4,450 and 1,175 approvals; they are IT consulting firms with high volume, but their role profiles differ from those of product companies, because most of their engineers work on client projects.
• Oracle and NVIDIA had 1,716 and 1,454 approvals, so they belong in this tier now, although an earlier version of this list had them in tier 2. Oracle sponsors cloud engineering, database and enterprise software roles, and NVIDIA sponsors GPU engineering, AI and machine learning, and hardware design.

Tier 2: Strong sponsors (200 to 1,000 approvals)

• Salesforce had 998 approvals for engineering, product and customer success roles.
• Qualcomm had 836 approvals under Qualcomm Technologies, for hardware and embedded systems engineering roles.
• LinkedIn had 542 approvals in engineering and data science.
• Adobe had 525 approvals for engineering, design and product roles.
• Uber had 480 approvals in engineering and data science.
• Databricks, DoorDash and Snowflake had 316, 268 and 265 approvals, which moves them up from tier 3, and they sponsor data engineering, infrastructure and product engineering roles.
• OpenAI had 304 approvals, which puts it ahead of older tech companies on this list such as Netflix and Stripe.
• Netflix had 255 approvals; it is selective, but it sponsors for senior engineering roles.
• Stripe had 212 approvals across two filing names (Stripe LLC and Stripe Inc), for engineering, infrastructure and payments roles.

Tier 3: Growing sponsors (50 to 200 approvals)

• Anthropic had 143 approvals.
• Airbnb and Lyft had 101 and 59 approvals for engineering and product roles.
• Palantir had 70 approvals for forward-deployed engineering and infrastructure roles.
• Coinbase and Block had 84 and 62 approvals for fintech engineering roles.
• Twilio, Datadog and MongoDB had 62, 67 and 59 approvals for developer tools and infrastructure roles.

If you are a software engineer or a data scientist, the role-specific lists are more useful than this one, because they come from Department of Labor filings that name the job title and the salary: see the 80 companies sponsoring H-1B software engineers and the 40 companies sponsoring H-1B data scientists.

What a sponsor list does not tell you

I think the biggest mistake people make with an H-1B sponsors list is treating it as a list of open doors. A company's record tells you it has sponsored before, and it says nothing about whether the team hiring for the role you want will sponsor this year. These are the limits I keep in mind.

• A petition count is not a head count, because one person can generate several approvals in a year through an extension, an amendment and a change of employer.
• Consulting and staffing firms such as Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and Compunnel place engineers at client sites, so a high count there means something different from a high count at a product company.
• The hub lists approved petitions, not lottery registrations, so it cannot tell you how many people a company tried to sponsor and lost in the lottery.
• Department of Labor Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) are a better guide to roles and salaries, because each one lists the job title, the work location and the wage, which is why I used them for the software engineer and data scientist guides.

How to verify H-1B sponsor companies

Before applying, verify a company's H-1B sponsorship history with these sources:

• The USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub is the official government database, and it shows approvals and denials by employer and petition type; its crosstab view lets you download the full year as an Excel or CSV file.
• MyVisaJobs.com aggregates LCA data with prevailing wages, company reviews and green card statistics.
• The DOL LCA disclosure data contains the raw Labor Condition Application filings, with exact job titles, wages and work locations for each H-1B filing, and its latest release covers October 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
• Job descriptions often state sponsorship plainly, and a posting that says "no visa sponsorship" saves you an application.
• Glassdoor reviews are worth searching for "visa" or "H1B", because international employees often describe how their sponsorship went.
• Scoutify's H-1B visa sponsorship jobs pages show current openings at companies with H-1B sponsorship on record in USCIS data, organized by role.

Who has to pay $100,000 for an H-1B visa?

On September 19, 2025, the President signed Proclamation 10973, "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers," which requires a $100,000 payment with certain new H-1B petitions. According to USCIS, the payment applies to petitions filed at or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern on September 21, 2025, for workers who are outside the United States, and the employer has to pay it through pay.gov before filing. USCIS guidance from October 20, 2025 says it does not apply to petitions for people inside the United States who are granted an amendment, a change of status or an extension of stay, which covers most F-1 students on OPT who change to H-1B status. It also does not apply to visas already issued or to petitions filed before that date, and the Secretary of Homeland Security can grant national interest exceptions.

The payment is not being collected right now. On June 8, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated the agency guidance that implemented it, in a case brought by a coalition of states, and on July 24, 2026, the First Circuit denied the government's request to pause that ruling. On September 18, 2026, the President signed a new proclamation that extends the policy through September 21, 2027, but as Yale's international office noted on September 23, 2026, the fee remains blocked by the court order, and USCIS says it will comply with that order. This can change quickly, so check the USCIS page (last updated September 21, 2026 when I checked) before you or an employer makes a decision, and treat this summary as general information rather than legal advice.

Timing your job search around the H-1B cycle

H-1B timing creates specific windows that matter for your job search:

• October to December is the best time to start applying, because companies planning for the spring lottery need to identify candidates months in advance.
• January to March is when interviews finish and companies prepare registrations, so an offer is still possible, but the timeline is tighter.
• March is when employers register candidates in the USCIS lottery, and April 1 is the first day a selected registration can become a full petition, so companies must have chosen their candidates before then.
• Year-round filing is possible at cap-exempt employers, such as universities and nonprofit research institutions.

The lottery itself changed for the FY 2027 season. USCIS now runs a weighted selection in which a registration gets one to four entries depending on the prevailing wage level the offered salary meets, so a higher offer improves the odds. Employers submitted 211,600 registrations for FY 2027, down from 343,981 the year before, and both the regular and the advanced degree caps were reached by July 17, 2026, according to SHRM. The full month-by-month calendar is in the H-1B visa timeline.

Finding H-1B sponsors that are hiring right now

The biggest challenge is knowing when H-1B sponsor companies post new roles, because job boards often show postings with delays. Scoutify watches 70,000+ company career pages, including all the major H-1B visa sponsors listed above, and sends a push notification within minutes of a new posting. For H-1B candidates, timing is especially critical, since many companies limit their sponsorship slots.

Scoutify is AI job search that applies for you first. Its Sniper agent applies to new jobs that fit your filters minutes after they post on the employer's own career site, and you can auto-apply with a visa sponsorship filter, which lets you filter for companies with a sponsorship record: Sniper applies where USCIS data shows the company has sponsored H-1B workers or where the posting says it sponsors, and it skips postings that say they do not. Sniper submits around the clock, so it keeps applying while you sleep. It applies on company career sites built on Workday, Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters, with Ashby and Lever rolling out, and it never logs in to your LinkedIn account or applies on linkedin.com. Most employers' confirmation emails land in Scoutify Mail, so you can see that each application arrived. Sniper costs $25 a week for up to 500 applications, Auto Apply costs $15 a week for up to 200, and your first 25 applications are free, with no card required.

Sniper cannot get you sponsored. The employer decides whether to sponsor a given role, and the lottery decides most cap-subject cases, so a sponsorship record is evidence and not a promise, and you should confirm sponsorship with the recruiter early. Scoutify is the better choice when you are applying to salaried roles at companies with real career sites and want to be among the first applicants. It is the wrong tool if you need applications sent through LinkedIn Easy Apply or Indeed, or if you need immigration advice, which only a lawyer can give. I go deeper on this in auto-applying to visa sponsorship jobs, and the best auto-apply tools comparison covers the alternatives.

Bottom line

H-1B sponsorship is concentrated among a relatively small number of companies, mostly large tech firms and consulting companies, and the 2026 data confirms it: 588 employers account for just over half of all approvals. Focus your energy on companies with a proven track record of sponsorship, time your search to the H-1B cap cycle, and use real-time alerts or Sniper to apply as soon as positions open at your target companies.

Frequently asked questions

Which companies sponsor the most H-1B visas?

According to the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, which covers fiscal year 2026 through June 30, 2026, the employers with the most approved H-1B petitions are Amazon.com Services (9,337), Tata Consultancy Services (4,450), Infosys (4,113), Apple (3,879), Microsoft (3,688), Cognizant (3,510), Google (3,180) and Meta (2,563). Counting all four of its filing entities, Amazon had 12,994 approvals.

Who has to pay $100,000 for an H-1B visa?

Under the September 19, 2025 proclamation, the employer must make a $100,000 payment for new H-1B petitions filed at or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern on September 21, 2025, for workers outside the United States. USCIS says the payment does not apply to people inside the United States who are granted a change of status, an amendment or an extension, such as most F-1 students on OPT. A federal court vacated the policy on June 8, 2026, and USCIS is not collecting the payment while that order stands, even though a September 18, 2026 proclamation extended the policy through September 21, 2027.

How do I find companies that sponsor H-1B?

Start with the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, which shows approved petitions by employer, and the Department of Labor LCA disclosure data, which shows job titles and salaries. Then check each posting for sponsorship language, and use a job search tool that lets you filter for companies with a sponsorship record, such as Scoutify, which can also apply for you minutes after a matching job posts.

What is the H-1B visa approval rate?

USCIS approved about 97% of the H-1B petitions it decided between October 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026, and about 96.6% of new employment petitions. Rates vary by employer: most large tech companies were above 98%, while some consulting firms were closer to 94%. Older guides, including an earlier version of this page, put the overall rate at around 85 to 90%, so the current numbers are higher.

What jobs qualify for an H-1B visa?

An H-1B job must be a specialty occupation, which means it requires highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor's degree in a specific specialty, or its equivalent. Software engineering, data science, other computer occupations, engineering, finance and many analyst roles qualify most often, and software developers alone made up about 31% of certified full-time H-1B Labor Condition Applications from October 2025 to June 2026.

Related resources

• Browse H-1B visa sponsorship jobs to see current openings at companies with H-1B sponsorship on record.
• The H-1B job search guide gives a step-by-step, 10-month plan for visa-sponsored job hunting.
• The H-1B software engineer jobs guide ranks 80 companies sponsoring SWEs, with salaries.
• The H-1B data scientist jobs guide ranks 40 companies sponsoring data scientists, with salary bands.
• The best job sites for international students post compares where to search on F-1 and OPT.
• The Resume Keyword Checker helps you optimize your resume for applicant tracking systems.