Kamal Ghorui
70% of H-1B approvals in FY 2025 were from Indian applicants, USCIS’s new report reveals.
Senator Eric Schmitt expressed shock over the latest official report on H-1B for FY 2025 where India led the list of countries with 283,772 approvals, followed by China with a distant 49,161 approvals. “While Washington pats themselves on the back, American workers are told to “upskill” or get replaced by H-1B hires. The entire system is designed to let companies take advantage of the law. While American grads and workers pay the price,” the senator wrote, sharing the snippets from the report. Blaming Big Tech, Schmitt said they are encouraging the disgraceful practice while laying off US workers.“An ex-visa officer in India shared the dirty secret: 70-90% of Indian applicants gamed the system with fake credentials. Then, Indian workers hire their own while axing American jobs. Once they’re in, they stay, bringing more, while American talent gets left out,” Schmtt upped the ante, citing US foreign service officer Mahvash Siddiqui’s earlier interviews.On Chinese H-1Bs, Schmitt said Chinese are flooding sensituve science and tech roles and through them the CCP is stealing US IP and spying on US companies. “Why on earth should the American people lose their jobs to fund CCP crimes?”Immigration entrepreneur James Blunt broke down the number and the panic and said it was “pretty low for a trillion dollar economy”. “So we went from ‘millions flooding in’ to ~400k approvals… with ~70% being renewals of people already here. That’s pretty low for a trillion-dollar economy. If the argument needs inflated numbers to work, it’s probably not a strong argument to begin with. Appreciate you posting the actual data though, it tells a very different story,” Blunt replied to Schmitt’s post adding that the India’s approved H-1B number is like a few high schools’ worth of people and “not flooding the market”.
