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Those LCA applications aren’t 1-1 with H1B quota numbers. Eg after 3 years when renewing a H1B the employer needs to file an LCA but that won’t count against the cap. Similar for H1B transfers and renewals past 6 years.

Overall the claim that Amazon takes 25 percent of H1Bs is extremely incorrect.



What percent do they take?


I believe there is no publicly available data that allows one to calculate the exact percent of new H-1B numbers used by a specific company.

But if I go into USCIS's H-1 data hub, I can find some information. For FY-2022 Amazon had 12.5k petitions approved. But drilling into the data we see that less than 4k of those were for _new_ petitions - the others were extensions of existing petitions. 4k out of the H-1B quota is less than 5% (there are 85k new H-1B visas per year). But even that is an overestimate because a new employee transferring to Amazon will require a new petition but won't count against the quota.

Overall, the best guess would be that Amazon use low single digits percent.




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