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NRI IMMIGRATION
Report Says
Three-Fourths of
H-1B Visa Holders
in 2018 are Indians
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An official United States report said nearly three out of every H-1B
visa holders as of October 5 are Indian citizens.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
there were as many as 419,637 foreign nationals working in the U.S.
on H-1B visas as on October 5.
Of these, 309,986 are Indians, the
USCIS said in its report ‘H-1B petitions
by gender and country of the birth fiscal
year 2018’.
The report unveils a massive gender
inequality - only one out of every four
H-1B visa holders is female. Of the
419,637 H1B visa holders, 106,096 (or
25.3 percent) are females as against
311,997 (or 74.3 percent males), it said.
Gender inequality is wider among
Indians.
Of the 309,986 Indians on H-1B visas
in the U.S. this October, only 63,220 or
20.4 percent are females while nearly
245,517 Indians on H-1B visas or 80
percent (79.2 percent to be precise)
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are males. As many as 1,249 Indians on
H1B visas have been characterized in
the category of missing/others.
Indians, who account for 73.9 percent of
the total H-1B visa holders in the U.S.,
are followed by a distant Chinese with
47,172 on H-1B visas, accounting for
11.2 percent of the total foreign nationals
on this work visas.
Nevertheless, there is not much gender
inequality among the Chinese on H-1B
visas. According to the report, 21,342 or
45.2 percent are females and 25,718 or
54.5 percent are males.
Followed by India and China, Canada
and South Korea are the only two
countries which account for a little over