Companies That Sponsor H-1B: How to Find the Ones Hiring You
Most job seekers who need sponsorship burn hundreds of applications on companies that will never say yes. The fix is not applying more. It is knowing who actually sponsors, then applying only to those. Here is who they are, based on official government data from July 2025 to June 2026, and a simple way to build your own list.
Start here: most applications are wasted
There are millions of employers in the United States. From July 2025 to June 2026, only 29,737 of them filed two or more certified H-1B labor condition applications, the paperwork an employer files when it wants to hire someone on an H-1B. That is the real universe of companies that sponsor. Everyone else, no matter how good the job looks, is a dead end if you need a visa.
This is why volume alone does not work. You can send a thousand applications and get nowhere if most of them go to companies that have never sponsored anyone. The people who get callbacks are usually not applying more. They are applying to the right list.
The companies everyone already knows
The largest sponsors are not a secret. Here are the ten biggest by number of certified filings from July 2025 to June 2026. Notice that the list is not just FAANG. IT and consulting firms like Cognizant, Ernst & Young and Infosys sit right next to the famous tech names people chase.
| # | Company | Certified filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon | 16,533 |
| 2 | Cognizant | 8,257 |
| 3 | 8,234 | |
| 4 | Apple | 7,058 |
| 5 | Microsoft | 6,960 |
| 6 | Ernst & Young | 6,754 |
| 7 | Infosys | 6,432 |
| 8 | Meta | 6,006 |
| 9 | Tata Consultancy Services | 4,203 |
| 10 | Deloitte | 3,652 |
These ten alone account for roughly 14 percent of all certified filings. That sounds like a lot, and it is, but it also means the other 86 percent of sponsorship happens somewhere else entirely.
The real list is 29,737 deep, not 10
The mistake most people make is treating the famous names as the whole market. They apply to the same twenty companies everyone else is applying to, get filtered out, and conclude that sponsorship is impossible.
The truth is that thousands of mid-size and smaller employers sponsor every year: regional banks, healthcare systems, retailers, manufacturers, universities, and a long tail of IT and staffing firms. Many of them get a fraction of the applications the big names do, which means your odds per application are better, not worse. The whole game is finding them.
It is not only software engineers
Software Engineer is the single most-sponsored occupation, with 12,239 employers filing for it, so if that is your field the pool is deep. But it is far from the only sponsored role. Thousands of filings each year go to data scientists, IT project managers, QA engineers, systems analysts, financial analysts, mechanical and electrical engineers, and more.
Browse sponsors by the role you actually want:
Software Engineer Data Scientist IT Project Manager QA Engineer Systems Analyst Financial Analyst Mechanical Engineer all roles
How to find the sponsors that fit you
You do not need a paid tool or a secret list. The government publishes who sponsored, and you can work from that. Here is the process that actually works:
- Start from the past-sponsor list, not job boards. A company that filed before is willing to sponsor. Filter that list by your occupation and your state or metro to get a shortlist of employers who both sponsor and hire people like you.
- Build a shortlist of 60 to 100 companies. That is enough to run a real search without wasting applications on non-sponsors. You can build one here for free by picking your job title.
- Check who is hiring right now. Past sponsorship tells you a company is willing, not that it has an opening today. Cross-check your shortlist against each company's careers page and apply only where there is a live role.
- Tailor each application. The screening software scores your resume against the job description before a human sees it. A generic resume scores low and gets filtered silently, and international candidates get filtered there the most. Mirror the real keywords from each posting.
- Answer the sponsorship question honestly. Say you need sponsorship and let a real sponsor self-select. Hiding it wastes everyone's time when it surfaces later.
Want the full numbers behind all of this? See the H-1B sponsorship report, with the top sponsors, roles, wages and states.
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Methodology
Figures come from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) LCA disclosure data, decisions from July 2025 to June 2026. We count certified Labor Condition Applications only, grouped by employer. Filing an LCA is a required step for H-1B but does not by itself guarantee a hire or a current opening. Company and role totals reflect what is disclosed on each certified filing.
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