The eight AI labs' companies had 33,926 H-1B petitions approved in fiscal 2026, -14% on fiscal 2025; Amazon 16,878
approvals of new and continuing petitions across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, xAI, Amazon · small labs file few petitions, so their numbers are small but real · fiscal 2027 is still being counted
AI · AI · USCIS · 29 Sep 2026