Visa sponsors in Mississippi
61 sponsoring employers, 0.2% of every sponsor in the United States, making it the 41st largest, covering 140 H-1B approvals. Figures as of July 2026.
This is a snapshot dated July 2026, not a live list. The register changes as employers gain and lose their licence, so treat these as employers known to have sponsored, and confirm current status against USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub before relying on it.
What this number counts
USCIS publishes H-1B petitions approved and refused per employer for a single fiscal year. It is a record of decisions already made, not a list of jobs open now, and it covers the H-1B route only.
An employer that files from more than one state appears under each of them, so state figures do not add up to the national total. Every number on this page is read straight from USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, and none of it is an estimate.
How often petitions are refused in Mississippi
140
petitions approved
3
petitions refused
97.9%
approved of those decided
USCIS decided 143 H-1B petitions for employers filing from Mississippi in fiscal year 2023, and approved 97.9% of them. The rate across the whole register is 97.1%, so employers here clear the bar more often than the national picture. A refusal is a decision on a filing an employer already committed to, so a high rate says little about your own odds of being hired.
The largest sponsors in Mississippi
These are the employers with the most H-1B approvals recorded against a Mississippi address, named exactly as the register spells them. Between them they account for 55% of everything the register attributes to Mississippi, which is how concentrated sponsorship here really is.
| Employer | H-1B approvals |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CT | 21 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | 17 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | 11 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | 6 |
| WG YATES AND SONS CONSTRUCTION CO | 5 |
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | 4 |
| SUNFLOWER COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHO | 4 |
| BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF MISSISSIPPI | 3 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | 3 |
| MCCOMB SCHOOL DISTRICT | 3 |
Which industries sponsor in Mississippi
Employers report their industry to USCIS, so the register shows which parts of the Mississippi economy actually file petitions rather than which ones are hiring loudest.
| Industry | Employers |
|---|---|
| Educational services | 23 |
| Health care and social assistance | 14 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 8 |
| Manufacturing | 4 |
| Accommodation and food services | 3 |
| Finance and insurance | 2 |
How Mississippi compares
48 states and territories clear the 25-employer floor we report on individually, and sponsorship is nowhere near evenly spread between them. California carries 80.7 times as many sponsoring employers as Mississippi, so where you look changes the odds before your CV does.
Using this to find a sponsored job in Mississippi
A place on the register means an employer has sponsored before, which is the single hardest thing to verify from a job advert. It does not mean they are hiring today, so treat the list as a shortlist to research rather than a set of open roles.
Our job board for the United States only carries listings from employers on this register. The full United States breakdown ranks every region, and our analysis of all three registers sets out how the UK, US and Canadian sources differ and why their numbers should never be added together.
Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, snapshot dated July 2026.
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