Does Gates Foundation sponsor visas?

New H-1Bs are first-time petitions with this employer, often after the lottery. Transfers are people already on an H-1B who joined from another employer. Counts are workers USCIS approved on its first decision, and the approval rate compares them with workers it denied that year. Later appeals aren't counted.

Filed as Gates Foundation

We couldn't find PERM applications filed by Gates Foundation in the Labor Department data.

Sources: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and DOL PERM disclosure data

Quick answers

Does Gates Foundation sponsor H-1B visas?

Gates Foundation has sponsored H-1B visas recently. USCIS approved 12 of its petitions in FY2025, including 5 for new H-1B workers and 0 transfers from other employers. From Oct 2025 to Jun 2026, it had 4 more approved.

Does Gates Foundation sponsor green cards?

We found no PERM applications, the first step of most employment green cards, for Gates Foundation in the Labor Department data.

Where do these numbers come from?

H-1B counts come from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and green card counts from Labor Department PERM disclosure data, matched to Gates Foundation through filing names like Gates Foundation. Fiscal years run from October to September. Statuses are our reading of the filings, news reports and what employees share, not statements from Gates Foundation.

• BBattelle Memorial Institute148 H-1Bs0 green cards
• FFred Hutchinson Cancer Center73 H-1Bs19 green cards
• SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories54 H-1Bs37 green cards
• SSel Engineering Services43 H-1Bs45 green cards
• PPaccar63 H-1Bs22 green cards
• RRemitly78 H-1Bs0 green cards