This country had the most H-1B visa approvals in 2024 and it’s not even close

Trump’s slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ has been repeatedly undermined by his attempts to do so, plunging the richest country in the world to untold depths of embarrassment across the world as it self-isolates and cries about mean people across the waters.

His latest move on immigration, placing a multi-thousand dollar fee on the H-1B visa, is just the latest catastrophic step that will ultimately benefit everyone else except the United States.

Briefly, I’ll explain just what the H-1B visa is and why it’s so important for America’s prosperity: the document allows, for a small fee, employers to hire non-immigrant foreigners in specialised occupations who are “of distinguished merit and ability.”

The specific requirements of the visa narrow down those requesting it mainly to the sciences, with government data showing that two-thirds of H-1B positions are computer-related. Many H-1B workers come from India and China and it has been their impact on society that has seen the US grow into the tech superpower that it is today.

However, going from between $1,700 and $4,500 in additional fees to $100,000 is a huge change that neither companies (already struggling with tariffs) nor workers themselves can afford. As such, the number of foreign skilled workers in the US is expected to fall off a cliff as those boffins take their white lab coats and thick-rimmed glasses and move elsewhere to prosper.

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The stats don’t lie, either. According to World of Statistics, in 2024 alone, there were 399,395 H-1B approvals, with India accounting for an overwhelming 71% (283,397). China followed at 11.7%, while other countries like the Philippines, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Pakistan, Brazil, and Nigeria each made up only a small fraction of the total.

In the first six months of 2025, Amazon received more than 10,000 H-1B approvals, while Microsoft and Meta welcomed roughly 5,000 each.