Corporate Bias in H-1B Visa Is Reshaping Skilled Migration

The debate around H-1B reform often focuses on workers. Less attention is paid to employers, even though recent changes make one thing clear: the H-1B visa is becoming an employer-filtered system. This shift reveals a growing corporate bias in the H-1B visa, where access increasingly depends on the size, scale, and financial capacity of the sponsoring organization. How Corporate Bias Entered the H-1B Visa System Historically, the H-1B visa was neutral toward employer size. A regional engineering firm and a multinational technology company entered the same lottery under identical procedural rules. That neutrality has eroded. Recent reforms emphasize wage thresholds, … Continue reading Corporate Bias in H-1B Visa Is Reshaping Skilled Migration