Indian professionals continued to dominate the US H-1B visa programme in fiscal year 2025, accounting for nearly seven in every 10 approved petitions, according to the latest annual report released by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The report also shows that Indian workers remain the backbone of the programme's long-term workforce, while technology jobs continued to account for the majority of H-1B approvals and median annual salaries climbed to $133,000.
The USCIS approved 406,348 H-1B petitions during FY2025. Of these, 283,772 were for beneficiaries born in India, representing 69.9% of all approvals. China ranked a distant second with 49,161 approvals (12.1%), while no other country accounted for more than 2% of the total.
