Visa
VVisa's Payments Network Has a Software-Labor Core
Visa is a payments network, but the public filing record reads like a technical infrastructure employer. This page follows Visa Technology & Operations, Visa U.S.A., Visa Inc., and related Visa employer-name variants beginning with Visa.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 6,800 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 6,919. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,066 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 3,139 approvals across the available approval rows. Where FY2025 rows are initial approvals only, the page labels them that way. LCA filings are not headcount, hired workers, or proof that a specific American worker was replaced.
11 total denials across all years (0.2% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Technology and Operations Are the Point
Visa Technology & Operations LLC is the largest filer, which puts technology and operations at the center of Visa's labor-market footprint.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2021, with 1,354 filings. FY2026 currently shows 119 rows and should be read as a partial-year value, not as a final decline.
This site no longer charts H-1B filings as a share of workforce. The ratio can blur U.S. employees, global employees, contractors, and offshore delivery headcount into one denominator.
Rows with a disclosed U.S.-employee denominator available here: 0. The analysis now uses filings, approvals, wage, worksite, and title concentration instead.
No Layoff Hook Needed
No reliable Visa-specific layoff or labor-dispute story surfaced in the source review. For Visa, the controversy is therefore the filing volume and role mix, not a separate public layoff claim.
Visa does not need a separate layoff story to belong here; the controversy is the scale, role mix, and sponsorship structure in the public records.
The Visa page intentionally avoids unsourced workforce-reduction claims.
Payments Infrastructure Means Technical Jobs
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications; the leading title is Staff Sw Engineer. Those roles sit inside the software layer of the payments economy.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $144,871, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $138,915. That is a $5,956 spread over the legal wage floor.
Austin Leads the Payments-Tech Map
Austin, Tx leads the worksite list with 2,629 rows, with Foster City and other infrastructure hubs behind it.
Visa's Green-Card Layer Is Material
Visa records 1,615 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 371 in FY2025.
PERM records are a different process from H-1B petitions, but they matter because the sponsorship timeline can tie a worker to an employer for years.
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| Title | Count |
|---|---|
| Staff Sw Engineer | 769 |
| Sr. Sw Engineer | 624 |
| Director | 377 |
| Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level | 207 |
| Sr. Data Engineer | 190 |
| Data Scientist | 170 |
| Staff Data Engineer | 160 |
| Sr. Sw Test Engineer | 154 |
| Sr. Systems Analyst | 151 |
| Systems Analyst | 150 |
- LCA filings and salary data: DOL OFLC disclosure rows mapped by the employer-name boundary used for this investigation.
- H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub CSV rows for FY2020-FY2023, plus FY2025 hub initial approvals where available.
- PERM data: DOL OFLC PERM disclosure rows mapped with the same employer-name boundary.
- No reliable Visa-specific labor story found in source review.
- BLS wage comparison: OEWS May 2023 national median for software developers.
Caveat: LCA filings are not H-1B petitions or hired workers. FY2025 USCIS hub rows are initial approvals only, so denial rates are not computed for those rows.