279,000+ Indians are approved for H-1B visas in US each year — no other nationality is even close

The vast majority of approved H-1B beneficiaries since 2022 are from India, government data shows.

Although the Trump administration is pumping the brakes on the tech-heavy visa program with a new executive order, there are still city-sized numbers of Indian workers getting new visas each year.

A whopping 77,673 Indians were approved for initial employment in 2022.

Between 2022 and 2025, official government data shows a shocking number of visas were approved for Indian workers.

In fiscal year 2022, that number was 320,791, according to numbers from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. For 2023, the number decreased to 279,386. But for 2024, the number went back up to 283,397, before stagnating at 283, 772 for 2025.

As well, Indian nationals represent the vast majority of H-1B recipients, accounting for