H-1B initial employment approvals
Petitions received or approved by USCIS during the fiscal year.
Fiscal year 2024 · United States · USCIS H-1B petitions
Data 2020–2024 · Source retrieved 16 Sept 2026
Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.
Published 29 Apr 2025 · Retrieved 16 Sept 2026
Source period: 2019-10-01–2024-09-30
Release schedule: Annual.
Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.
How updates are checked →Historical observations
Only source observations are plotted. Gaps remain missing; lines never fill missing annual values.
Data 2020–2024 · Source retrieved 16 Sept 2026
Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.
Published 29 Apr 2025 · Retrieved 16 Sept 2026
Source period: 2019-10-01–2024-09-30
Release schedule: Annual.
Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.
How updates are checked →What this measures
Petitions received or approved by USCIS during the fiscal year.
Calculation
Published USCIS fiscal-year count.
Population denominator
Not applicable
Limitations & comparability
Appendix D Tables 1a, 1b, 7; section 2.7. USCIS CLAIMS 3 and ELIS accessed November 2024. Petitions are not unique workers. Approvals and filings are different fiscal-year cohorts; do not divide them for an approval rate. Compensation is reported compensation, not observed earnings.
Calendar-year and fiscal-year series must not be silently combined.
Characteristics of H-1B Specialty Occupation Workers, FY 2024
Original source ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-16