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Yes — and it is one of the few big tech employers that grew its H-1B sponsorship while others pulled back. Nvidia was approved for 563 new H-1B workers in FY 2025, up from 376 the year before, and CEO Jensen Huang has told staff the company will keep sponsoring and cover all associated fees.

On September 30, 2026, a federal judge in California vacated the agency guidance implementing the $100,000 H-1B fee for a second time, ruling that DHS, State, and USCIS skipped notice-and-comment rulemaking. The order reaches the renewed proclamation signed September 18 — but it stops short of ruling on the proclamation itself, leaving that fight for later.

Yes — Apple is one of the largest H-1B sponsors in the country. It was approved for 823 new H-1B workers and 4,610 continuing-employment petitions in FY 2025,

For the first time, four U.S. tech companies took every one of the top four places for new H-1B approvals. Amazon alone was approved for 4,644 new H-1B workers in FY 2025 — roughly three times Meta, the next-largest sponsor. Here is the full picture, including where Apple and Tata Consultancy Services landed, and how F-1 students on OPT fit in.

Department of Labor data for the second quarter of fiscal 2026 shows OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia increasing certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications year over year, while Google's filings fell 64%, Amazon's 30%, and Microsoft's 20%. Here is what the numbers show — and what they do and do not tell job seekers.

A USCIS Policy Manual update issued September 23, 2026 reverses three-year-old guidance that let a filing due before a beneficiary's 21st birthday slide to the next business day when that birthday landed on a weekend or federal holiday. Starting October 23, 2026, that extra day is gone for age-based eligibility deadlines — though it survives for ordinary day-counted filing windows like RFE responses.

One day before Proclamation 10973 was set to expire, President Trump signed a new proclamation extending the $100,000 H-1B entry fee for another 12 months and a companion executive order directing USCIS, DOL, and State to weigh employer layoffs when adjudicating H-1B filings. Here is what the two documents actually do, and how they interact with the fee's ongoing court vacatur.

A Massachusetts federal judge ruled September 14, 2026 — the day before DHS's fixed-admission-period rule was scheduled to kick in — that the rule is postponed nationwide while a coalition of universities and unions litigates its legality. Duration of status stays in place for now, but DHS is expected to appeal.

A month after the "Eliminating the Discretionary 60-day Grace Period" proposal cleared federal review, DHS published the actual notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on September 11, 2026 — with real regulatory text, a live comment docket, and DHS's own estimate of who gets hurt. Here is what the published NPRM says that the earlier OIRA-review stage could not.

A second SEVP broadcast message, issued August 24, 2026, sharpens the CPT crackdown it started twelve days earlier by supplying the bright-line test the first message lacked: CPT must be required for every student in the program, not tied to a course a student could skip and still graduate. UC Berkeley and UC Davis have already paused "Course Credit CPT" applications while they review. Here is what changed, what did not, and what to check before enrolling in a CPT-heavy program.