Labor Condition Application (LCA) Specialty Occupation Programs

This program consists of 3 visa programs : H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3

1. The H-1B visa program allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in the U.S. on a nonimmigrant basis in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. A specialty occupation requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent in the specific specialty (e.g. sciences, medicine, health care, education, biotechnology, and business specialties, etc.).
2. The H-1B1 (Chile and Singapore) program allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers from Chile and Singapore in the U.S. on a nonimmigrant basis in specialty occupations.
3. The E-3 (Australia) program allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers from Australia in the U.S. on a nonimmigrant basis in specialty occupations.

For more information about individual columns, refer the column metadata. A detailed description of the underlying raw datasets is available in official site.

Acknowledgements

The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is in charge of compiling programme statistics, which includes information on H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 visas. Quarterly, the disclosure data is updated and made available online. The raw data available contains private data of some kind. As a result, all of the private data has been masked or dropped, and various transformations have been applied to make the data more available for speedy investigation.

For data before 2017, please visit H-1B Visa Petitions 2011-2016

Inspiration

• How the Software Engineer, Software Developer job titles increasing over time ?
• How academia (Assistant Professor, Instructor, ..) takes positions in H-1B ?
• Data Science titled 'The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century', how this job title played in H-1B petitions ?
• How STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and non-STEM performs ?
• How the petitions increasing in each years ?

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