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Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by notnoop »

bfwi wrote: post #28

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Google able to get all their application certified? EDIT: Apparently 21/2436 have been denied. That's still nowhere close to 2/3 though

The published database is actually for the Foreign Labor Certification application (a.k.a LCA), which precedes making an H-1B application, and mostly approved. A certified LCA may not result into a successful H-1B petition though.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by logfromblammo »

If you want more detailed information, companies that have Labor Certification Applications are required to maintain Public Access Files, to be presented for perusal on demand to anyone that wants to see it, both at the company headquarters and the facility where the nonimmigrant worker is working.

The LCA has to be included in the PAF, but there's other stuff in there, too.

Likely all useless to you unless you're an investigative reporter, immigration activist, or just masochistic statistician, but it's supposed to be there, nonetheless.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by ambrood »

radmuzom wrote: post #8
tarikjn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.

Haha, having worked in the Indian offshoring industry for the last 9 years, I can only say that this is a joke. At least 100 of my co-workers have moved to US with wages much less than their American counterparts.

Well most American employers do take this very seriously. I've typically been offered salaries well past the prevailing wage.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by itcmcgrath »

s/H1B/LCA

I'm in that data, yet I have an E-3, not an H-1B.

One unintended consequence of moving to the US that I wasn't expecting is that now my friends back home roughly know what my salary is. I understood when moving here that the LCA (which has salary details) would be posted in public spaces, but I didn't notice it was also a matter of public record which in this day and age, means global public record.

I work in a smaller city, so while I may have been relatively anonymous in somewhere like Silicon Valley, my location, company and role and year of employment is more that enough to uniquely identify me. Such is life.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by SeoxyS »

itcmcgrath wrote: post #34

s/H1B/LCA I'm in that data, yet I have an E-3, not an H-1B. One unintended consequence of moving to the US that I wasn't expecting is that now my friends back home roughly know what my salary is. I understood when moving here that the LCA (which has salary details) would be posted in public spaces, but I didn't notice it was also a matter of public record which in this day and age, means global public record. I work…

Good news is: visas which don't require labor certification do not appear in the data. I'm on an O-1 and I'm not in it.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by ambrood »

kghose wrote: post #17

I was surprised that India leads green card applications by such a huge margin. China and India should be about level since they both send about the same number of students to higher ed in the US and in similar specialties. Though I do see a lot more Chinese nationals in genomics/molecular sciences.

A fair amount of those GC applicants are also the people who came here via consulting companies like Wipro/TCS etc.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

ambrood wrote: post #37
kghose wrote: post #17

I was surprised that India leads green card applications by such a huge margin. China and India should be about level since they both send about the same number of students to higher ed in the US and in similar specialties. Though I do see a lot more Chinese nationals in genomics/molecular sciences.

A fair amount of those GC applicants are also the people who came here via consulting companies like Wipro/TCS etc.

I was wondering about that because I saw only one application from my employer, but a few dozen from an Indian outsourcer that we have used in the past. This town is small enough that it's likely 90%+ of them are in this company.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by ambrood »

bfwi wrote: post #28

It doesn't look like applications from Google have been denied. Since the H1B visas are drawn in a lottery where there's three times as many applications as the quota, how are Google able to get all their application certified? EDIT: Apparently 21/2436 have been denied. That's still nowhere close to 2/3 though

Many of these applications are probably for a transfer of status implying that the beneficiaries are already on an H1B working for some other employer.

Re: Database of all H1B petitions by company

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Post by mallyvai »

ambrood wrote: post #2

I came across this link which lists in detail every H1B petition filed by an employer over last few years. One interesting thing is that they list the actually wage offered by a company for a given position to the beneficiary of each petition. This perhaps a more accurate representation of salaries in Tech industry than the glassdoor review.

VisaDoor is a great resource, and we recommend it pretty heavily at http://OfferLetter.io .

There's something very visceral about being able to look at someone's specific offer, knowing that there is a person out there

I also wrote a bit about salary research in general, on our blog:

http://offerletter.io/blog/201410-research.html

And yes, to your point - absolutely more accurate than Glassdoor.

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