{"title":"Visa sponsor data matched to employers and their open jobs","summary":"Alion matches four public visa registers to the employers in its graph: the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, the US Department of Labor H-1B (LCA) and green card (PERM) disclosure data, Canada's positive LMIA decisions and the Dutch IND register of recognised sponsors. 14,284 companies carry a match scored 80 or more, and every open job at them carries a sponsorship verdict.","sections":[{"heading":"What a match holds","text":"The register entry: licence routes and rating (UK), H-1B and green card filings in 12 and 24 months with the median offered wage (US), LMIA positions approved in 12 months (Canada), recognised sponsor status (Netherlands); Filings by role sphere, from the occupation codes of each US and Canadian filing; Flags: IT services firms that sponsor their own consultants, US universities outside the H-1B cap; The confidence of the match and when it was checked"},{"heading":"How it is matched","text":"By legal entity, trading name, town and domain, with a score per match. Matches scored 80 or more are published; weaker ones wait for a person to review them. A trading-name match to a franchise brand is never published automatically."},{"heading":"Call it","text":"curl \"https://alion.io/api/company.get?domain=stripe.com&slices=hiring,tech,pay\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY\" # slices=visa\nIn job.getList, visa_sponsor=1 keeps the jobs at employers that sponsor in the job's own country."}],"faq":[{"q":"How often are the registers reloaded?","a":"When their publishers update them: the US and UK files weekly, Canada every quarter."},{"q":"Does a match mean a job is sponsored?","a":"No. It means the employer can sponsor or has sponsored. Adverts that say so outright are marked separately, and adverts that refuse sponsorship are never counted as sponsored."}],"html_url":"https://alion.io/datasets/visa-sponsor-data","json_url":"https://alion.io/datasets/visa-sponsor-data.json","offers":[{"id":"company.list","title":"Companies by industry, country, size, technology and hiring","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per company in a list","note":"the whole list with a card per company","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_companies"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.list&for=datasets%2Fvisa-sponsor-data"},{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"any company of the list in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=datasets%2Fvisa-sponsor-data"}],"meta":{"source":"Alion (alion.io), CC BY-SA 4.0","updated_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","built_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","indexable":true,"generated_at":"2026-10-12T16:01:02+00:00","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json"}}