You may know that sponsor companies only represent 10% of all companies in the United States.
Many of you have been asking us how we found the 400K+ sponsor companies (all of which you can access here) based in the USA that hire foreigners and offer them visa sponsorship.
We never found such a list – we made it!
Our Sources
We have two trustworthy sources for all our information:
The US Government
Each year, the US Department of Labor Foreign Workers publishes all visa petitions filed for the year’s H1B, H2B, and H2A visas. It also publishes information about the PERM, which is the first step in obtaining a green card in some cases.
Most of our current data came from this source in the beginning.
The Sponsor Companies Themselves
Now, we extend our company network with companies that contact us directly to publish their open jobs with guaranteed visa sponsorship on our platform.
You could not have more accurate data!
How We Made This Sponsor Companies List
Data Extracting
We downloaded all the US government Excel petitions files from 2008. With one file of 500 MB per visa and per year, we had more than 40 files to work on. And we extracted data like:
- the name of the company that has sponsored.
- the address of the company.
- the industry of the company.
- the lawyer who created the file.
- the job title of the person who was sponsored.
- the type of visa (H1B, H2B, H2A, PERM, etc.).
- the case status (if the case has been accepted or denied).
- the citizenship of the person sponsored, etc.
And from our direct companies, we ask them for data to enrich their company profile.
Data Cleaning
We noticed many typos and errors in the government files, so we fixed and cleaned up all the data to give you more accurate information, such as the correct company name, the actual address (by comparing it with official USPS addresses), etc.
Data Merging
After that, we identified each unique company using its name, status, and address and assembled all the data!
And by doing that, we were able to know each sponsor company:
- the number of visa requests they filled.
- for what types of visa.
- when (which year).
- for what position and domain (job title, soc title).
- for who (citizenship of the person sponsored).
- at which location.
All of this in the past 10 years.
You can find all this information for each company on our sponsor companies list, all in one place.
Max and I were so happy to find the two companies that sponsored us on our own-made list! 🙂 It tells us that this list of sponsor companies can help future international candidates. It wasn’t that long ago that we were in the same boat that you are today.
How Long Did It Take Us?
It took us several months to work on all that data and develop the search engine that allows you to search this list.
For several weeks, we hired a data scientist to make the dream come true: the sponsor companies list!
How You Can Use This List
You can access the list here and search for sponsor companies by filtering for industry, location, etc.
But you think you don’t care if companies have sponsored foreigners in the past. It’s the past! And the fact that they have sponsored in the past does not mean they will sponsor today. They may not be able to temporarily or permanently sponsor anyone anymore, or at least not in your desired field.
So, we made things a little easier for you. We also placed open jobs at those sponsor companies in a search engine so you can search for open jobs, filtering for location, job title, industry, etc. 🙂
Find Open Jobs At Sponsor Companies That Can Offer Sponsorship For The Visa You May Qualify
The best part is that on USponsorMe, you only see open jobs at sponsor companies that can specifically sponsor you for the visa you may qualify for.
Complete your profile so we can calculate your visa and match you to the right open jobs and companies. Find open jobs here that match your visa profile!
How Do We Know if a Previous Sponsor Company is Still Offering Visa Sponsorship for an Open Job?
We Know for Some of Them!
We know when a company is currently hiring and offering visa sponsorship when it directly publishes its job on USponsor Me or specifically specifies in the job ads that it does sponsor. Those jobs are flagged with a green flag:
We have a good guess of whether they do or not for the others. 🙂
We Guess About the Others!
Our algorithm collects jobs from the Internet and vets each of them. A job is published on our platform only if it concerns a position that the company uses to hire and sponsor for.
