MyVisaJobs is where people targeting U.S. visa-related hiring go to read sponsorship history and research employers. It is not a proven all-purpose job board. Don't treat a filing record as proof they'll sponsor you.
Worth an application, or just a familiar name? That's the useful question. International job seekers, including readers on F-1 or OPT, can see which employers have filed labor petitions before, and they still have to verify a live opening. The government record needs the same check.
Look the employer up and note any reported wage or LCA pattern. Cross-check that name with USCIS and the Department of Labor. After that, confirm the role is actually posted.
A name in a database is not the posting. You still have to find the role.
MyVisaJobs says it helps international job seekers identify employers experienced in sponsoring work visas. You'll find labor-petition filings, employer profiles, H-1B and Green Card annual reports, sponsorship-trend data, and tools meant to connect seekers with those employers. Homepage themes cover prior sponsors, CPT employers, H-1B, and Green Card.
Write-ups do not agree on the day-to-day product. Some call it aggregate LCA reports. Others talk about browsing or filtering listings. Official copy talks about connecting you with employers. Don't freeze one picture and call it the product.
Decide from the history if an application is worth your time. Confirm the job on a live board. Confirm the filing in official files.
What MyVisaJobs is for
You can treat the goal as settled because it comes from site copy: help people find employers with labor-petition experience. Those profiles are what candidates read.
Employer pages and the homepage put those profiles beside H-1B and Green Card annual reports and sponsorship-trend data. That is what those pages describe. They do not document an employer recruiting product, a price, or an applicant-tracking setup. This piece stays on the job-seeker side of the screen.
The homepage also groups employers under a popular-employers label. It does not state a report year on those pages. A popular label is not a sponsorship for the role you want this month.
Thing is, the day-to-day product is where descriptions split.
An alternatives article from H1BVisaJobs says the site is built primarily around reports and aggregate LCA data, not a live browsable listings board. One write-up picks the reports view. A separate comparison page says people filter listings by sponsorship likelihood. Homepage language about jobs offered does not settle the argument. Official pages still say the tools are meant to connect seekers with employers.
You can rely on the stated purpose. You can't rely on one picture of the interface.
The sources have not picked a winner, and neither should you. Don't call it a full job board. Don't call it only a report archive.
Practical write-ups describe the same move, and that is the part that lines up. Check a past sponsorship record and any reported wage, then cross-check a current opening on a general job board. That sequence still works if the site also lets you browse listings. It still works if it doesn't.
CPT shows up as a homepage theme. Green Card reports show up too. A theme is a category on the page. It is not an offer in that category.
Check an employer, then confirm a real opening
One pass through the checks below is enough.
- Search the employer on MyVisaJobs for past sponsorship and any reported wage or LCA pattern. Write down the legal name on the profile, not the brand name in the job ad.
- Cross-check that name on the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and in DOL LCA disclosure files. Pull labor files through FLAG and DOL OFLC. Skip the old FLC Data Center. That portal was discontinued on July 1, 2024.
- Confirm a current opening on a general job board such as LinkedIn, Indeed, or Glassdoor. Apply through the channel that posting actually uses.
These files split similar names and merge them too, so a search hit is not the same thing as a legal-entity match. Name matching is where this gets messy.
Pending petitions may be missing from hub extracts. The hub shows decisions in the extract. It does not show every case still in process.
A certified LCA is not a USCIS approval, even though the labor step can come first. A petition may never follow.
A 2026 guide from USA Harmony describes the USCIS hub as the official petition-decision source, searchable by fiscal year, employer, city, state, and ZIP. Coverage runs from FY2009 through FY2026 Q1. That window belongs to the hub. It is not a MyVisaJobs product metric.
DOL disclosure files for H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 can show job title, worksite, and offered wage. One published check of those DOL files ran through FY2026 Q3. That date describes government files, not how often this site refreshes.
If a wage appears on the profile, treat it as a reported figure for that filing. It is not the offer in your inbox.
Immigration decisions need a licensed attorney. This pass will not tell you lottery odds, cap-gap timing, or which status to hold.
What a filing history does not decide
A past filing is a reason to keep reading, not a reason to assume the offer, and you can sit there with years of H-1B activity under a familiar name, older approvals included, and still hit a refusal on the role you want, because the database will not flag that refusal and you only learn it when you ask or when the posting says no. Approvals from an older fiscal year do not create a current job. They do not create a future sponsorship offer either.
Turns out cap-exempt status is a different question. Universities, affiliated nonprofits, and research organizations sit on another hiring track from cap-subject employers. A sponsorship history does not label the track. It does not tell you that this employer is cap-exempt just because older petitions exist.
E-Verify and an I-983 are separate again. A comparison page on Webmatrices notes that H-1B LCA history does not show STEM OPT E-Verify enrollment or willingness to sign an I-983. STEM OPT sits outside that history. The same page notes that an employer can have H-1B filings and still refuse STEM OPT. If STEM OPT is your next step, this site will not answer it.
Don't read an H-1B or LCA history as OPT sponsorship. Don't read it as STEM OPT, CPT, or a green-card sponsorship either.
The site can surface CPT-related employer themes and Green Card annual reports. Those are categories it chose to display. They are not a finding that this employer will sponsor your OPT, your CPT, or a green card for the job you just found.
Third-party pages sometimes pin salary averages, city totals, and large-company filing volumes on MyVisaJobs, or on DOL data said to come through it. The windows and filing types differ. They are not a verified market total. They are not your outcome.
Government dates stay with the official files.
A hub description through FY2026 Q1, and one DOL check through FY2026 Q3, tell you how far those public extracts were described as reaching. They don't tell you MyVisaJobs update timing. They don't tell you a coverage start year.
Nobody in the source set has established those product details, so don't invent them while you search.
Spend the application hour when a filing history gives you a reason to keep reading and the live posting is real. Nothing in the file makes it for you. Walk away when the only evidence is an old filing under a name you cannot match. That's the decision.
MyVisaJobs beside official files and other search tools
These tools help you decide where a sponsorship question should go next. Same job, different questions. They do not share a score.
Size, price, and accuracy claims do not line up, so the comparison stays qualitative. Evidence is too mixed to rank them.
| Source | Best used for | What it does not show | Evidence limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| MyVisaJobs | Narrowing employers with a reported filing history before you spend application time | A current opening, a future sponsorship offer, or one settled product model | Purpose comes from site copy; write-ups still disagree on reports versus listings |
| USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub | Checking petition outcomes by employer, year, and location | Petitions still pending when the extract was built, and whether a role is open | Coverage from FY2009 through FY2026 Q1 comes from one 2026 guide |
| DOL LCA disclosures (FLAG / OFLC) | Job title, worksite, and offered wage on H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 labor filings | A USCIS approval | FLAG replaced the FLC Data Center, discontinued July 1, 2024; one check cited files through FY2026 Q3 |
| H1BGrader | A separate, no-signup look at approval rates | Sponsorship willingness, E-Verify enrollment, or an I-983 | That no-signup rate use is described on one comparison page |
| Migrate Mate | Searching currently open, sponsorship-tagged listings, as some write-ups claim | A government filing record by itself | Those write-ups conflict on how you access it; price and volume are not treated as facts here |
| LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor | Confirming a role is posted now | DOL or USCIS filing history | General boards; a sponsorship tag, if the posting has one, is not a petition decision |
A 2026 guide also names h1bdata.info and openh1b.org, next to H1BGrader and MyVisaJobs, as ways to read USCIS and DOL data without downloading large CSV files. It does not compare features at all. Treat that as a pointer. Not a shortlist.
Case tracking is a different job.
Priority Path, writing about its own product as an alternative, says MyVisaJobs does not offer personalized deadline alerts, Visa Bulletin monitoring, AC21 portability guidance, or case tracking. Take that as the vendor's contrast. It is not a joint review. The same source says immigration decisions need a licensed attorney.
Which source to open first
Match the source to the question you have today. Skip the scoreboard.
MyVisaJobs is the stop when you want to narrow employers that show a reported filing history before you invest application time. You are looking for a reason to keep going. A reason, not an offer letter. You are not looking for an offer letter.
To be honest, open the USCIS hub and the DOL files when the question is a petition outcome or LCA detail. Match the file to the detail. Start with the hub for the outcome, or for the gap where a pending case may not appear. Start with FLAG or OFLC when you need the labor filing itself, such as worksite or wage.
LinkedIn, Indeed, or Glassdoor are where you check whether a role is open now. A rich history with no posting you can confirm is not a live opening this week. A posting with no filing history is a different risk. You can still apply. You just should not assume a sponsor.
Use an approval-rate lookup only as a separate check. It is not sponsorship willingness. An approval rate does not mean this employer will file for you.
Reports, hubs, live boards, and rate lookups answer adjacent questions. Ranking them would fake a comparison the sources do not support. Leave them unranked.
This is a job-seeker workflow. You are reading employer profiles, petition filings, and annual reports that candidates already see on the public pages. Those pages do not spell out an employer-side recruiting product, a price, or an ATS setup. There is no hiring-team workflow to recommend from them.
FAQ
Is MyVisaJobs a live job board or a report site?
Sources disagree. Don't pick a model for them.
Site copy describes filings, profiles, annual reports, trend data, and tools meant to connect seekers with employers.
One alternatives article calls it mainly aggregate LCA reports, while another description says people filter listings by sponsorship likelihood instead. Use it for history research either way. Confirm the opening on a live board.
Is a certified LCA the same as a USCIS approval?
No. A certified LCA is the labor step that can come before an H-1B petition, and it is not the petition decision. Check the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub for outcomes.
Pending cases may be absent from that extract. Similar employer names can still be split or merged, so match the legal name before you trust the row.
Can a sponsor database decide lottery odds, my status, or whether I need a lawyer?
No. These files are past activity.
They can't set lottery odds or choose a status. They can't replace a licensed attorney.
If the question is legal, stop the database work and talk to one.
When you close this page, look up one employer on MyVisaJobs and write down the name and filing pattern you see. Then check that same name in the USCIS hub and a DOL LCA file. Search LinkedIn, Indeed, or Glassdoor for a posting that is actually open.