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A list of immigrant-friendly companies

Talent is distributed, opportunity isn't.

This list could be used as a weapon against companies listed herein but I can't fix xenophobia. It's already hard enough for a foreign U.S. university graduate (like me) on an F-1 "non-immigrant" visa to find any company willing to hire them.

Getting hired out of school isn't the hardest part. An F-1 OPT period expires after 2.5 years. That's a heartbeat in someone's career. Educated, trained, and experienced workers who are legally required to seek work in their own field of study and to be paid a market wage are routinely forced (like I was) to upend their life and return to their home country. At home, they often don't have the student and professional networks they worked so hard to establish in the U.S.

Immigrant-friendly Companies

Name	H-1B	H-1B transfer	EB-1/2
Adobe	Yes	Yes	N/A
AirBnB	Yes	Yes	N/A
Amazon	Yes	Yes	N/A
American Airlines	Yes	Yes	N/A
American Express	Yes	Yes	N/A
Apple	Yes	Yes	N/A
Autodesk	Yes	Yes	N/A
Bloomberg	Yes	Yes	N/A
Chase	Yes	Yes	N/A
CVS	Yes	Yes	N/A
Dell	Yes	Yes	N/A
Dropbox	Yes	Yes	N/A
eBay	Yes	Yes	N/A
Expedia	Yes	Yes	N/A
Facebook	Yes	Yes	N/A
General Motors	Yes	Yes	N/A
Google	Yes	Yes	N/A
Groupon	Yes	Yes	N/A
Harvard University	Yes	Yes	N/A
IBM	Yes	Yes	N/A
Intel	Yes	Yes	N/A
Intuit	Yes	Yes	N/A
LinkedIn	Yes	Yes	N/A
Lyft	Yes	Yes	N/A
Mayo Clinic	Yes	Yes	N/A
Microsoft	Yes	Yes	N/A
MIT	Yes	Yes	N/A
Netflix	Yes	Yes	N/A
Nike	Yes	Yes	N/A
Nvidia	Yes	Yes	N/A
PayPal	Yes	Yes	N/A
Pluralsight	Yes	Yes	N/A
Salesforce	Yes	Yes	N/A
Spring	Yes	Yes	N/A
Square	Yes	Yes	N/A
Staples	Yes	Yes	N/A
Symantec	Yes	Yes	N/A
Tesla	Yes	Yes	N/A
Uber	Yes	Yes	N/A
Uber	Yes	Yes	N/A
Wayfair	Yes	Yes	N/A
Zillow	Yes	Yes	N/A

If your company (or a company you know of) is publicly willing to hire the best people the world has to offer, please submit a Pull Request adding it to the list below. The H-1B column signifies the company is willing to sponsor H-1B candidates which can be a lengthy process. Since H-1B visas are capped at two 3-year terms, it can be crucial for someone willing to plant roots in the U.S. to know they have a path to permanent residency with EB-1 or EB-2 applications.

Although permanent residency should remove constant threat under which so-called "non-immigrant" workers live, they're still taxed without representation until they become elligible for citizenship after 5 years.

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Source: H1B Salary Database