Does Ernst & Young Sponsor H-1B Visas?

EY sponsors H-1B visas, but not every EY role or office does. Here is what the USCIS data actually shows, entity by entity.

You're three rounds into EY's assurance or advisory interview process, and the requisition never mentioned visa sponsorship. Your OPT clock is running, your STEM eligibility is uncertain, and the search results for "does EY sponsor h1b" are mostly recruiting copy and forum guesses. You need an actual answer, not a sales pitch.

F1Jobs is a job-search service for international students and professionals, so we have a commercial stake in you finding a sponsor — that's worth saying up front. It doesn't change what the federal data says, so here's the honest read on Ernst & Young's H-1B sponsorship, entity by entity.

The short answer

Yes. Ernst & Young's US operations petition for H-1B workers every year, for both new hires and for extending or transferring existing H-1B holders. That much is settled by USCIS's own H-1B Employer Data Hub, which tracks approved and denied petitions by employer name.

What isn't settled by the data — and can't be, because USCIS doesn't publish it — is whether the specific team, office, or practice area you're applying to is sponsoring this cycle. Large firms don't sponsor as a blanket policy; they sponsor role by role, against a budget that resets every year. EY petitioning for hundreds of workers company-wide tells you the firm sponsors. It doesn't tell you your requisition will.

What the USCIS data shows for EY

EY's H-1B petitions appear in the USCIS dataset under two separate legal entity names: Ernst & Young US LLP and Ernst & Young U.S. LLP. Both file from Secaucus, New Jersey, and both are classified under Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Here's what each shows across the two most recent complete fiscal years, plus the year still in progress.

Totals above are approvals only (initial plus continuing), excluding denials. Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, extract compiled 2026-07-29. FY2026 is incomplete for most employers in this dataset and shouldn't be read as a trend.

Combined across both entities, EY's FY2025 approvals — the latest complete fiscal year in this dataset — came to roughly 705 new-hire (initial) approvals and 944 extension or transfer (continuing) approvals.

One plausible explanation for the odd year-over-year swing between the two entity names: USCIS bins petitions in this dataset by the exact employer-name string printed on the I-129. If EY's outside counsel changed how they spelled or punctuated the company name between filing years, one "entity" can look like it cratered while another appears out of nowhere, without that reflecting any real change in EY's sponsorship activity. We can't confirm the reason from public petition-count data alone, but it's a clean illustration of a rule worth remembering for any sponsor search: legal entity names aren't brand names, and a company you search for under one exact name may simply be filing under a slightly different one. If you search a sponsor database and get nothing for "Ernst & Young," try "EY," "Ernst and Young," and every plausible legal-entity variant before concluding the firm doesn't sponsor.

You can search EY's full record, alongside the other 1,023 verified employers in this dataset, on our H-1B company database. For the mechanics of running that search on any employer, see how to check if a company sponsors H-1B, and browse the full list of verified H-1B sponsors if EY isn't your only option.

Is EY a cap-exempt employer?

No. Ernst & Young's US operations are private professional-services LLPs, which puts them squarely in the cap-subject category. If you're coming off OPT and haven't been counted against the H-1B cap before, an EY offer still has to clear the annual H-1B lottery like any other cap-subject employer's petition — the offer alone doesn't bypass it. The only employers exempt from the lottery are universities, their affiliated nonprofits, and government or nonprofit research organizations. See our cap-exempt H-1B employers guide if you're weighing a bridge role at one of those before you try the lottery through a firm like EY.

The targeting math behind "does EY sponsor H-1B"

Zoom out and the reason this question matters becomes clearer. Only 28,277 US employers were approved to hire even one new H-1B worker in FY2025 — roughly half of one percent of the roughly 6 million employer firms in the country — and 61% of those sponsored exactly one person (NFAP, released 2025-11-17). Against that backdrop, an employer that files hundreds of petitions a year, across two legal entities, in a sector that regularly recruits international graduates, is a meaningfully better target than the median US employer, who has never sponsored anyone.

That's the case for keeping EY on your target list. It's not a case for applying only to EY, or assuming your specific offer is safe because the firm sponsors broadly. Big Four accounting firms as a group behave the same way — high firm-wide volume, uneven distribution by practice and office — and accounting and CPA-track candidates chasing sponsorship should treat any single firm, EY included, as one line on a longer list rather than a plan.

How to confirm sponsorship for the role you're actually applying to

1. Read the requisition closely. Some EY postings state visa sponsorship availability, or its absence, for that specific role. Treat silence as "unconfirmed," not "no."
2. Check DOL's LCA disclosure data for the worksite you'd be filed from. Petitions are tied to a specific office location and wage level, not to the company as a whole — a role sponsored out of one metro doesn't tell you about another.
3. Ask directly, early. Ask your recruiter or hiring manager whether the team sponsors H-1B before you invest more interview rounds. This is a normal, expected question from international candidates, and asking it doesn't hurt you.
4. Confirm the employer of record. Given the two-entity pattern above, ask which specific LLP would sponsor you. That's the name you'd want to check in future USCIS data if you're deciding whether to stay long enough to see your own petition filed.
5. Keep building your list in parallel. Don't let one firm's interview timeline become your entire search. Use the full sponsor list to line up two or three additional targets while EY's process plays out.

If you're on standard, non-STEM OPT, you likely get one lottery attempt inside a 12-month clock, so steps 2 and 3 above are worth doing in your first few weeks of interviewing, not after an offer is already on the table. And if graduation is close, note that the F-1 post-completion grace period drops from 60 days to 30 days for anyone completing after September 15, 2026, which compresses how long you have to line up next steps if a specific offer falls through.

Common mistakes

• Searching only "Ernst & Young" or only "EY" in a sponsor database and stopping at a zero result. Given the two legal-entity names in the data, that search alone can undercount what the firm actually sponsors.
• Reading one entity's older, larger numbers as proof of current sponsorship strength. Fiscal-year filing patterns shift; check the most recent complete year, not the biggest number you can find.
• Treating a high approval rate as a meaningful signal. Initial approval rates for large sponsors, EY included, cluster in the 94%-100% range across the board — the lottery and the hiring team's willingness to sponsor are the real filters, not the approval rate.
• Assuming every EY office and practice sponsors equally. Assurance, tax, consulting, and strategy teams make separate hiring and budget decisions; a sponsorship-friendly team in one practice doesn't guarantee the same in another.
• Waiting until an offer is in hand to ask about sponsorship. By then you've spent interview rounds you can't get back if the answer is no. Ask in the first recruiter screen.
• Confusing CPA licensure with visa sponsorship. State-board CPA licensure, typically requiring 150 credit hours and administered through NASBA-affiliated state boards, runs on a completely separate track from H-1B sponsorship. Passing the CPA exam doesn't influence whether your team sponsors you, and vice versa.

Frequently asked questions

Does EY sponsor H-1B visas for new graduates?

Yes. USCIS data shows Ernst & Young's US entities approved for hundreds of new-hire (initial) H-1B petitions in the most recent complete fiscal year, alongside hundreds more extensions and transfers. Whether your specific new-grad role sponsors depends on the practice area, office, and hiring team, so confirm it directly rather than assuming firm-wide numbers apply to you.

Why does EY show up under two different legal names in H-1B data?

EY's US operations file H-1B petitions under at least two separate LLP names in the USCIS dataset, likely reflecting how outside counsel recorded the employer name on different petitions across filing years. If you're searching any sponsor database, check every plausible name variant (EY, Ernst & Young, Ernst and Young) before assuming a zero result means no sponsorship.

Does every EY office or practice area sponsor H-1B?

No. Sponsorship is decided per role, per team, per budget cycle, not as a single firm-wide policy. A practice that sponsored heavily last year can pull back, and one office sponsoring doesn't mean every office does. Always confirm with the specific team you're interviewing with.

Is EY a cap-exempt H-1B employer?

No. EY's US operations are private professional-services firms, which are cap-subject. If you haven't been counted against the H-1B cap before, an EY offer still has to go through the annual lottery like any other cap-subject employer's petition.

How many H-1B workers does EY sponsor each year?

Across its two named legal entities, EY's approvals in the most recent complete fiscal year (FY2025) totaled roughly 705 new-hire approvals and 944 extension or transfer approvals. Treat that as evidence the firm sponsors at scale, not as a guarantee for any specific opening.

Knowing that EY sponsors doesn't tell you whether your specific offer will. If you want a second set of eyes on how to read a company's sponsorship pattern or where else to focus your search, F1Jobs can help you work through it.