New information released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that President Donald Trump’s administration has approved more than 120,000 H1-B visas for foreign workers for Fiscal Year 2026.
This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the Trump administration “selected 118,660 unique beneficiaries, resulting in 120,141 selected registrations in the initial selection for the FY 2026 H-1B cap.”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services added, “During the registration period for the FY 2026 H-1B cap, we saw a significant decrease in the total number of registrations submitted and eligible beneficiaries compared to FY 2025, including a decrease in the number of registrations submitted on behalf of beneficiaries with multiple registrations.”
U.S. Tech Workers shared a picture Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter, of the data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. According to the data released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the 120,141 H-1B visas approved for foreign workers for Fiscal Year 2026 are comparable to the number of H-1B visas approved in recent years.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reported that 125,137 H-1B visas were approved for 2025, 188,400 were approved for 2024, 127,600 were approved for 2023, 131,924 were approved for 2022, and 124,415 were approved for 2021.
“Despite mass tech layoffs and voter backlash—especially after the Christmas H-1B uproar—the Trump team stays hands-off,” U.S. Tech Workers tweeted. “120,141 NEW H-1Bs selected for FY2026. Demand remains high despite layoffs—a clear sign U.S. workers are being replaced.”
According to Tech Crunch, multiple technology companies in the United States have implemented mass layoffs during the first few months of 2025. The outlet noted that more than 2,400 tech jobs were cut in January, more than 16,000 tech jobs were cut in February, almost 9,000 tech jobs were cut in March, and more than 23,000 tech jobs were cut in April.
When the H1-B visa program was debated in December ahead of Trump’s inauguration, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said, “The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH.”
