as similar us workers if not morethe results further indicate that the h1b visaholders do not adversely affect usborn college graduates during the early years of their careers having more approved total or initial h1b petitions on average reduces the unemployment rate within a majoroccupation for recent graduatesit provides no evidence that recent college graduates have worse labour market outcomes if there are more h1b visaholders in jobs closely related to their college major the report saidnoting that the results of the research indicate that the h1b visa holders do not adversely affect us workers the report said that the h1b programme is small relative to the size of the collegegraduate workforce likely accounting for at most two per cent of highly educated us workersthe h1b visaholders are concentrated in computerrelated occupations but account for only a small share of workers in information technology it jobs despite the h1b programmes small scale the visa category is important to the us economy and to employers that use it to fill gaps in their workforcethe presence of the h1b visaholders increases innovation productivity and profits at h1b employers and boosts total productivity and innovation in the united states