Find out if a company sponsors H-1B visas

A Labor Condition Application (LCA) is the form an employer files with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) before it can file an H-1B petition. It states the job, where it is and the wage. On Visa Grep, a certified LCA is a “certified H-1B filing.”

They come from two agencies at two steps. The employer first files an LCA with DOL; the H-1B petition then goes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which approves or denies it. One LCA can cover several workers or never be used, and the agencies share no case number, so we show both and never add them together.

It adds up four parts, for up to 10 points: recent approvals, entry-level hiring, filing every year and approval rate. Each part has a published rule, on How Visa Grep works. A part without enough data isn't rated, and the maximum shrinks rather than counting it as zero. The score describes the past record; it doesn't rate the company or predict any application.

Either there isn't enough history — fewer than 5 certified H-1B filings in FY2023–FY2025 and fewer than 5 new petitions approved in FY2022 — or all its records fall outside FY2020–FY2025, the years the score looks at. “Not enough data” is not a low score: it means there isn't enough history to judge.

E-Verify is the federal system employers use to confirm that new hires can work in the U.S. An employer must be enrolled in E-Verify to employ F-1 students on the STEM OPT extension (8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C)). Our E-Verify data is the list USCIS published for December 31, 2018. A company that enrolled later isn't on it, so not being on the list tells you nothing.

Universities, their affiliated nonprofits, and nonprofit or government research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap and its lottery (INA 214(g)(5)). We flag employers that look like a college or university from their name or industry code. It's an indicator, not a determination: only USCIS decides, petition by petition.

Roughly, an employer whose staff is a large share H-1B workers: 15% or more at employers with over 50 employees, more than 7 H-1B workers at 25 or fewer, or more than 12 at 26 to 50 (20 CFR 655.736). Dependent employers make extra promises on their LCAs about recruiting U.S. workers and not displacing them. We report what the employer answered on its LCAs.

DOL sets four prevailing-wage levels for each job and area, from level I (entry) to level IV (fully competent). The employer states the level on each LCA. We count levels I and II as entry level.

An employer DOL has found, in the five years before the filing, to have willfully failed to meet its LCA obligations or misrepresented a material fact. Such an employer carries extra obligations. Employers state this on each LCA; we report what the employer answered, not a DOL record.

The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30 and is named for the year it ends in: FY2025 is October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. DOL and USCIS both report by fiscal year.

No. Visa Grep is a record of what employers filed and what the government decided in the past, and no filing history can predict an individual case. For advice about your situation, talk to a licensed immigration attorney.