H1B Sponsor Filtering

How it works

ApplyFast maintains a database of H1B sponsors built from Department of Labor LCA filing data, covering 4.8 million+ records. When jobs are scanned, each employer is fuzzy-matched against this database.

The matching normalizes company names (strips "Inc," "LLC," "Corp" suffixes) to catch variations like "Google LLC" vs "Google Inc."

Sponsor statuses

Each job gets one of four statuses:

Status	What it means
Verified	Company found in DOL database with recent H1B filings. High confidence.
Likely	Company name partially matches a known sponsor. Worth investigating.
Unknown	No match found. Doesn't mean they won't sponsor, just that we can't confirm.
No Sponsorship	Job description explicitly says "no sponsorship" or "must be authorized to work without sponsorship."

Filtering options

If your visa status requires sponsorship (F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H1B), you'll see an H1B filter toggle in the job feed:

• Only show H1B sponsors -- Shows verified and likely sponsors only.
• Show all with warnings -- Shows every job but flags non-sponsors with an orange warning.
• Show all -- No filtering. Useful if you're exploring or your status is changing soon.

The default depends on your visa status. F1-OPT and H1B users see "Only show H1B sponsors" by default. You can change this anytime.

Data freshness

The sponsor database is refreshed quarterly from the latest DOL filings. Between refreshes, new companies that start sponsoring won't appear as verified until the next update.