Welcome to our help center. Here you will find answers to the most common questions.
About
USponsorMe is different from other online job boards in one significant way:
In a standard job board such as Indeed or LinkedIn, employers always ask if you have work authorization and if you need visa sponsorship. By answering ’no’ and ‘yes’, your chance of getting an interview decreases or even disappears. You may have heard « we do not offer visa sponsorship » or « you need a work authorization », or you may not even hear back from the company.
In USponsorMe, employers may still ask if you have work authorization and if you need visa sponsorship. By answering ’no’ and ‘yes’, you still have a chance of getting an interview, and you won’t hear « we do not offer visa sponsorship » or « you need a work authorization » from jobs you find on USponsorMe, because our employers do offer visa sponsorship for jobs listed on our platform!
High potential visa sponsorship jobs are the entire focus of our job board. Every job we post is from a company that regularly hires and sponsors foreign employees for a work visa for this kind of position. And every job has been screened for potential visa sponsorship.
So it saves you tons of time by keeping you from wasting your time applying everywhere and constantly hitting the wall of visa sponsorship. You also don’t have to spend hours browsing job listings looking for keywords like « sponsorship » or « visa. » We do all the legwork for you. Simply log in to find the best, most current, high-potential visa sponsorship jobs available. Learn more about USponsorMe in our introduction video.
No, USponsorMe is not an employment agency, staffing service, temp firm, or headhunter. We do not place people into positions nor manage the payment process between employers and employees. USponsorMe is a job service that curates high potential visa sponsorship job opportunities and puts them into one easy place for you to find them (and also allows pre-screened, approved employers to find candidates who fit their hiring needs and then reach out to them directly). You should use USponsorMe as a job board such as Indeed or LinkedIn: find jobs, apply for jobs, and follow up with recruiters.
However, our agency USponsorMe Exchange provides J1 placement; here is more information about it.
Eligibility
You will need a job offer from a U.S.-based employer to get a work visa or work authorization in any cases, except if:
– you are an American citizen;
– you hold a green card;
– you hold an EAD (Employment Authorization Document);
– you won the EDV Green Card lottery and will get the green card;
– one of your parent(s), spouse, child(s), or sibling(s)) is an American citizen or green card holder and is willing to sponsor you;
– your spouse got a non-immigrant visa such as H1B, E1, E2, J1, L1, or A2, and on the one, you can be added as dependent and ask for a work authorization then;
– you are a journalist, or you work for an independent production company and are sent to the U.S.A. by your current company;
– you are employed by a company at a management or expertise level and are sent to the U.S.A. by your current company;
– you have an extraordinary ability in the arts or athletics;
– you have an extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry;
– you have an extraordinary ability or achievement in the sciences, education, or business, and your presence and your activity will benefit the United States;
– you create your own company;
– you invest $800k+ in a business that will benefit the U.S. economy and create jobs.
If you do not fall into one of those exceptions below, USponsorMe may help you, as you need a visa sponsorship from a U.S.-based employer. Check your eligibility (see below) and see if USponsorMe can help you.
If you fall into one of those exceptions below, USponsorMe cannot help you. For the four first exceptions, you do not need any visa sponsorship; we recommend you use general job boards such as Indeed, ZipRecruiter, or LinkedIn. For the other exceptions: you might be able to get a work visa or work authorization without any job offer from a U.S.-based employer. In that case, we recommend you contact a lawyer in immigration law.
No, you don’t. One benefit of using USponsorMe; you won’t need to search for a lawyer. Our companies work with lawyers. When you are ready to get hired by one of our companies, they will put you in contact with their lawyers. Their lawyers will tell you precisely what you need to do for your visa petition filling.
Our jobs are mainly from H1B, H1B1, O1, TN, and E3 employers. We sometimes have E-1/E-2 jobs.
Rarely but sometimes it happens, we have employers willing to sponsor other’s visas. To get to the bottom of it, we recommend you browse our jobs for a qualified visa. If you see open jobs, bingo! We have U.S.-based employers willing to sponsor the concerned visa!
We also provide sponsorship for J1 Intern/Trainee visas through our USponsorMe Exchange agency.
An American company that qualifies as a Treaty Investor (E-2) or Treaty Trader (E-1) can bring a national of a treaty country as an essential skilled worker or as an executive or supervisor/manager position.
A candidate eligible for the E-1 / E-2 Essential Employee visa:
– has no U.S. passport nor Green Card;
– must be the same nationality of the investor(s) or company(is) that has(ve) majority ownership of the U.S. business, here is the list of E-1 and E-2 treaty countries;
– will be a manager/supervisor or a worker with special skills making him or her essential to the running of the business.
Tell us more about you, and it will automatically calculate your eligibility for E-1 / E-2 Essential Employee visas for free. By enrolling in our premium subscription, your eligibility will be manually verified by our team. If we discover you do not qualify for one of the visas we have jobs for, we will cancel your subscription and fully refund you.
Living abroad does not affect your eligibility for the visa.
Living outside the United States while searching for a U.S. job is a general issue, and we suppose that is one of the reasons you are here! And that is one of the benefits of using USponsorMe. All our companies are used to hiring Foreigners living or not in the USA. So no, it is not an issue anymore while using our website!
One benefit of using USponsorMe; you won’t need to pay for your work visa for a job posted on our platform (J-1 is not a work visa and is an exclusion, learn more about J1 fees in our sister company USponsorMe Exchange), as all our jobs are from companies that regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa for the kind of position. Our companies will pay for the visa for you and your whole family.
Just for you to have an idea of how much your company will pay, the fees of the lawyer who will fill for your visa will represent 90% of the cost of the visa. Lawyers’ fees vary between visa types and lawyers. Usually, it is between $1,500 to $40,000 USD for a visa, one visa per person.
Yes, before searching for employment, you must possess a Registered Nurse license in a state located in the United States, pass the TOFEL, and be in process with NPTC or completed.
Yes, before searching for employment, you must possess a Physical Therapy license in a state in the United States, pass the TOFEL, and be in process with NPTC or completed.
No, you do not need us anymore as you do not need sponsorship. As an American citizen or everyone who does not need sponsorship, we recommend you use general American job sites for your U.S. job search, such as Indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, etc. Those are great and free to use!
The time to get a job varies depending on the number of jobs you receive and apply for per month, your fit for the jobs, the quality of your applications, and your performance at job interviews. For example, for a USponsorMe member with an American resume and cover letter rewritten by an expert, who applies for 5 or more targeted jobs on USponsorMe weekly and is ready to master job interviews, he usually gets the ideal job offer with visa sponsorship within 4 months.
The time to get a visa varies depending on the visa. TN for Canadians usually takes 2 weeks, and 4 weeks for Mexican. For H-1B at cap-exempt companies, O-1 if you have all documents ready, and E-3, it usually takes 6 weeks. For H-1B and H-1B1, it usually takes 8 to 10 months, and petitions should be submitted once a year, in March. For H-1B and if you are not graduated in the USA with a master’s degree, you may have a 70% chance of not being picked at the lottery and have to wait for next year to resubmit, and so on. We will give you more precise details on the timeframe regarding your profile when you complete it on our platform (for free).
The timeframe to get a job offer and the one to get your visa cannot overlap. So if you take 8 months to get a job offer and 6 weeks to obtain your visa, it will be 10 months. Another example is; if you take 8 months to get a job offer, the deadline to submit your petition is 3 months after you get your job offer, and it takes 10 months to obtain your visa, which will be 21 months.
Note: you’ll need the USponsorMe+ subscription during the time of your job search, and depending on the demand on your profile (how many targeted open jobs you can apply for per month), the length of your job search will vary. It will be more prolonged but less intense. We know that, and that’s why we offer a discounted price on the monthly subscription price if you pay quarterly or yearly. It can also be your choice not to have too much pressure with a more prolonged job search!
We suggest you calculate your estimated timeline to get your job offer and then your visa, as explained in the previous « answer to the question ». Then, you just need to subtract the timeframe from your estimated start date, and you’ll know when you should start!
Otherwise, we would say that you can start as soon as you are ready to dive into your job search!
Jobs
Yes! Our jobs are from companies that regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa for a similar position. And every job has been screened for potential visa sponsorship.
We simply filter out all jobs that mention in the job title or job description that visa sponsorship is not offered.
And our jobs are only from companies that regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa for a similar position.
The jobs in our database come from various sources where sponsor companies likely publish their jobs, such as their company website. Our robots find most jobs, and after rigorous vetting, those listings are placed into our database. There are also vetted sponsor employers elected to partner with us and can post in our database directly.
Your feedback is essential for us to keep the database clean! It might sometimes happen that we miss a rule. In that case, please write us here [email protected] and share the USponsorMe job URL with us, and tell us what’s wrong with the job. And we will fix that asap.
Learn more about how to use our job search engine.
The qualified visa is the visa you may prequalify for. If you do not know what visa you prequalify for, we recommend you select « I Don’t Know » or « The Best One » from the list. It will ask you to tell more about you for us to calculate the visa you may prequalify for or pick the best one you prequalify for.
You can switch to another visa anytime in your advanced filters then.
As a foreigner who needs visa sponsorship, especially for H-1B, E, or O, you won’t be able to work at any jobs. You must commit to your skills, experience, education, and achievements. See the target role(s) you can use in this field for your search to give you an idea. You may need to complete your profile to see them.
You do not need to enter a location; this field is optional. Just let it blank and run your search!
We clean our database regularly to keep our listings as current and accurate as possible. We remove filled positions daily. In the unfortunate case that you ever come across a listing that has a broken link or is closed, please write us here [email protected] and share the USponsorMe job URL to report the job, and we will research the listing and respond to let you know if the job is expired or if the website was just experiencing issues.
Learn more about how to save searches and set up a job alert.
Simply turn off your job alert from your dashboard on each saved search you do not want to be notified.
Strong of our 8 years of experience in job search for foreign nationals who need a visa, we can provide you today with a job site that only contains jobs with the ones there is a high probability to get sponsored for a visa as our jobs are from companies that recently and regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa for a similar position. And every job has been screened for potential visa sponsorship.
However, not all companies are equal. Each company has an annual quota for hiring and sponsorship depending on its size and needs, and some have a much higher quota than others. Some are H1B cap exempts; some are not.
On the other side, not all of you are equal. Companies will prioritize candidates who can work for them first without sponsorship needed, such as TPS, asylum, OPT, or EAD, and consider sponsorship then. The second round of priority candidates is those with access to an easy visa such as H1B Transfer, TN, E3, or O1 visa (except for H1B cap exempt). Then, they will prioritize H1B1 and master’s graduates for H-1B.
It means that even if our open job comes with a high probability of sponsorship, you compete with each other, and if this concerns a company with a low annual quota and if you are at the bottom of the scale, the probability they will choose someone else is higher than a company with a high annual quota, as they are massively hiring and sponsoring.
That’s why we developed the sponsorship hint, a score that tells you how much probability you have to personally get sponsored for a concerned job. This score should be used only in the case you have too many jobs and want to prioritize the ones you apply for first.
First, you need to be a USponsorMe+ member to see employers and apply for any jobs. Each employer decides how it wants you to apply for jobs through our platform.
Employers can set up the job post to allow you to apply through USponsorMe, or require you to apply directly from the careers page on their websites. Some companies may request that you e-mail your resume and cover letter instead of applying through USponsorMe or their system. When this happens, the company’s e-mail address will be provided in the job listing on USponsorMe.
When you click the button « Apply Now », we’ll remind you how your profile matches the job by taking those criteria: visa type, job title, sponsorship score, and skills.
Definitely yes! After you apply for a job, you’ll find it in applied jobs. You will see a green button, « Message Recruiters ». Click it to browse recruiters. You’ll see recruiters’ emails and social media profiles. We recommend you follow up with them for each job you applied.
We also provide templates of follow-up emails to our USponsorMe+ members.
Companies
Yes! Our companies regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa.
Our sponsor companies come from various sources, such as the Department of Labor of Foreign Workers, Chambers of Commerce, several associations of foreign companies, and from search engines where sponsor companies find us.
Every year, we collect data from visa petitions filled to the U.S. Department of Labor of Foreign Workers, such as the company, the type of visa they sponsored, the number of petitions, the position, the work location, the citizenship, etc. For all other companies, we simply ask them to provide us with those data!
Our data scientist designed a complex aggregator that cleans and merges all the data for each identified sponsor company. From there, strong with our 8 years of experience in visa sponsorship, such as H-1B, E, O, we analyze those historical data and only pick companies that regularly hire and sponsor foreign employees for a work visa for a similar position, discarding all others (30% selected only); we elect a « company | position » by the last year petition (recently), the number of petitions per year during the last three last consecutive years (regularly). We also apply other criteria such as violations, H-1B dependents, etc.
The company database is updated weekly when a new sponsor company wants to register on our website and publish their jobs.
We also update our company database annually with the annually filled petitions to the U.S. Department of Labor of Foreign Workers. During this update, we archive companies we consider no more a sponsor and add new ones considered sponsors.
You may need to search for internal recruiters:
– for sending inquiry letters;
– for following up with a job you applied for. If this is a job you applied for on USponsorMe, you’ll be able to search for internal recruiters from applied jobs by clicking the green button « Message Recruiters ». Suppose this is a job you applied for outside of USponsorMe. In that case, you’ll be able to search for internal recruiters from the concerned company details page by clicking the button « Contact » (you’ll need first to search the company by company name).
Documents
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Support
While we don’t provide individual or tailored job searching services, our team is happy to help you use USponsorMe to its fullest. Suppose you’re sure you’re using USponsorMe correctly, and you’re just not finding the jobs you want. In that case, you can report a bug or request a new feature to enhance our job searching and matching service by going to our contact page and entering your request in the provided contact form.
We invite you to use a resume writing service and some career coaches to maximize your chances.
USponsorMe does not guarantee job placement. While we research all the jobs we publish, the employer handles the hiring process directly. However, USponsorMe guarantees you’ll find only high potential visa sponsorship jobs on our site.
Write us here [email protected]; feel free to ask us anything.
Account & Billing
Yes! USponsorMe’s Satisfactions Guarantee states that if you are not satisfied with the quality of our service, simply cancel your subscription and request a refund by email here: [email protected]. We will quickly and promptly process a refund within 15 days of creating or renewing a subscription. The bottom line is that we want you to be happy with our service, and we’ll do whatever we can to make that happen.
Yes. There is the USponsorMe+ subscription.
Our job site is free to use to browse jobs, receive jobs, browse companies. You’ll need a paid membership if you want to apply for jobs, followup with recruiters, or get recruiters contact to send inquiry letters.
Whatever plans you choose, you will have the same features. What change is the discount price depending on the length/billing period.
For example, if you have a few jobs, your job search may take longer. You need to consider how many jobs average you can apply for per month. Or if you do not want too much pressure and limit your number of applications per week.
If you have no jobs and consider sending inquiry letters to employers only, depending on the number of employers you have, you may only need a month or two to send them.