A new report from USCIS reveals that 70% of H-1B approvals in FY 2025 were from Indian applicants.
Senator Eric Schmidt expressed shock over the latest official report on H-1B for fiscal year 2025 where India topped the list of countries with 283,772 approvals, followed by China with 49,161 approvals.
Sharing excerpts from the report, the senator wrote: “While Washington pats itself on the back, American workers are being told to ‘upskill’ or be replaced by H-1B employees. The entire system is designed to allow companies to take advantage of the law. While American graduates and workers pay the price.” Blaming big tech companies, Schmidt said they are encouraging this shameful practice while laying off American workers.
“One former visa officer in India told the dirty secret: 70-90% of Indian applicants gamed the system with fake credentials.
The Indian workers then hire their own while eliminating American jobs. “And once they arrive, they stay, and they bring in more, while American talent is excluded,” Shamat upped the ante, citing previous interviews conducted by US Foreign Service official Mahvash Siddiqui.
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Regarding Chinese H-1Bs, Schmidt said the Chinese are submerging sensitive scientific and technological roles and through them, the Chinese Communist Party is stealing American intellectual property and spying on American companies. “Why on earth should the American people lose their jobs to fund the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party?”Immigration businessman James Blunt explained the figure and the panic, saying it was “very low for a trillion dollar economy.” “So we went from an influx of millions to about 400,000 approvals… with roughly 70% of the renewals being from people already here. That’s very low for a trillion dollar economy. If the argument is that you need inflated numbers to succeed, it’s probably not a strong one to begin with. And I appreciate you posting the actual data even though it tells a very different story,” Blunt responded to Schmidt’s post, adding that India’s approved H-1B number is similar to a high number of high school value people and “not flooding the market.”
