The sponsorship method
The posting says one thing.
History tells you another.
Our visa flag comes from the role’s own words. An employer’s H-1B record is a separate signal. We keep both visible so you can decide what to check next.
This dates the explanation, not the freshness of every posting or USCIS record.
What each flag means
Rules read the posting title and description, identify relevant sentences, and return a flag with a short excerpt from the source text. This classification does not use an AI model or your profile.
- Sponsors visas
We found wording offering visa sponsorship or immigration support. It can be conditional. Read the quote for the limits; this is not a guarantee for your application.
Illustrative posting text, not a live job
“Visa sponsorship is available for this role.”
- No sponsorship
We found a refusal or a restrictive eligibility requirement, such as required citizenship or security clearance. The quote matters: these are different reasons, not a legal assessment of your eligibility.
Illustrative posting text, not a live job
“We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.”
- Unconfirmed
We found no wording our rules could confidently classify. The posting may be silent, unclear, outside the rules we recognize, or missing its description. This means neither yes nor no.
Illustrative posting text, not a live job
“Join our engineering team to build useful software.”
How context changes a result
The rules account for negation, statements about this role, internship exceptions, some country and job-track restrictions, and preferred versus required qualifications. Equal-opportunity wording and unrelated event sponsorship should not decide a visa flag. When yes and no statements compete, we compare their strength and role specificity; a refusal wins a tie.
These are text rules, not a recruiter’s confirmation. Boilerplate, complex conditions, language the rules do not recognize, and changing postings can produce mistakes. A quoted excerpt can omit surrounding context. Always read the employer’s full posting.
What “H-1B filer” adds
It means the employer’s matched USCIS record meets our filing threshold. It does not change an Unconfirmed posting into Sponsors visas. The note applies only to US roles whose posting flag is unconfirmed. A posting classified as no sponsorship never receives that note.
The threshold is at least 10 new-employment approvals in the latest complete fiscal year on record, or at least 25 total approvals in the hub’s most recent fiscal year. If the matched names show a sharp fall that may reflect a change of legal entity, the last complete year before the fall can qualify instead. The company page explains that exception and marks potentially incomplete years.
We match normalized petitioner names, using tax-ID and location checks, or a reviewed manual mapping. We do not use fuzzy name matching. A missing match means we could not confidently link the employer, or the data is unavailable; it does not establish that the employer never sponsors.
The figures count petitions USCIS decided, split into approvals and denials, new employment and continuing employment. They do not count open roles, offers to you, or your chance of approval. Company pages show the petitioner names, fiscal years, source coverage and any incomplete-period notes.
Sources and freshness
- Posting evidence: public employer job boards through Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and supported Workday boards. Coverage depends on the companies and boards in our directory; this is not every employer or every opening. The apply link leads to the employer’s application flow.
- Employer history: the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and its yearly CSV exports. Our importer reads archived FY2019–FY2023 files and prefers live-hub figures for years it retrieves. The FY2023 archived file is treated as partial when no hub replacement is available.
- Update timing: ingestion runs on a schedule. Some boards list a role without fetching its full description again on every run; stored descriptions are refreshed in batches. The H-1B worker is configured to attempt a weekly refresh by default. Schedules and fetch failures mean a record can lag behind its source.
A “last seen” date means a role appeared in a board fetch, not that every word was rechecked then. For current availability and sponsorship terms, check the employer’s posting. For the period behind an H-1B figure, read its fiscal-year and coverage label. This page publishes no board totals or accuracy percentages.
What we keep
We store public posting text, source links and classification evidence so a flag can be checked. Closed postings can remain available for historical links and queues. Cleanup can remove raw source payloads and HTML while keeping text and flags; an optional purge can delete older, unreferenced closed postings. This is not a promise of a permanent archive.
You do not need to upload a resume or create an agent key to read a flag. Personal profile, resume, queue and agent-event retention is separate from public job data. See the privacy policy and deletion controls for those details.
Before you rely on a flag
- Read the quoted sentence and the surrounding requirements in the employer’s current posting.
- Check the role’s location, employment type and any conditions. Past employer filings do not answer the role’s terms.
- Ask the employer to confirm anything the posting leaves unclear.
Found a wrong flag? Include the Imba job link and the relevant public posting sentence when contacting us through the contact details on About, when available. Please leave out your resume, immigration documents and other personal details.
For more context, read how to check a company’s sponsorship evidence.