Find the employers that actually sponsor work visas.
One search across the official sponsor registers and visa filings of seven countries, matched to the jobs those employers have open right now.
From "who might sponsor me?" to a shortlist in minutes
See which routes fit you
Enter your salary, degree and citizenship. We show the work routes in each country whose published salary floor you clear, with the official source beside every figure.
Find employers with a real record
Not a list of names. For each employer: the licence it holds, how many visas it filed for, what was approved and denied, and the wages it stated.
Apply to roles that are open now
Live vacancies from those employers' own job boards, each flagged if the posting rules sponsorship out or says it is available.
The record behind the name
A sponsor list tells you an employer is allowed to sponsor. The filings tell you whether it does, for which jobs, and at what pay.
- US: applications filed, USCIS approvals and denials by year, green-card filings
- Canada and Ireland: positions approved and permits issued, by period
- UK, Netherlands, Denmark: licence, routes and rating
What sponsors pay for your occupation
For every US occupation: the employers that filed for it and the wage each one stated on its filings. Use it to target employers and to check an offer.
Browse occupationsRoles with the sponsorship signals attached
We read each posting for what it says about sponsorship, and compare the role with what the employer has filed for before. Skip the ones that rule you out.
Search open rolesSeven countries, one search
Each register is read from the government's own file and shows the date its data is good to.
Australia, Sweden, Singapore and several other countries publish no employer register. We cover them through salary rules and vacancies. Exactly what we cover and what we do not.
Biggest recorded sponsors
Ranked by what the official files count. The UK, Netherlands and Denmark publish who is licensed but no counts, so they are not ranked.
The $100,000 H-1B payment and the routes it does not touch
Who it covers, where it stands in court, and the employers filing E-3, H-1B1 and green cards.
Licensed to sponsor and hiring this week
Employers in the official data that posted new roles in the last seven days, by country.
Before you rely on it
Does a sponsor licence mean the job is sponsored?
No. A licence or a past filing shows an employer can or did sponsor. Whether a particular vacancy comes with sponsorship is the employer's decision. Use AscentWork to decide where to spend your applications, then confirm with the employer.
Where does the data come from?
Only from official publications: the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, US Department of Labor disclosure files and the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, Canada's positive LMIA list, Ireland's employment permit statistics, the Dutch IND register, Denmark's SIRI list and Germany's BAMF register. Nothing is estimated or crowd-sourced. See every source and its date.
How fresh is it?
Vacancies are refreshed every hour and every official source is re-downloaded each day, automatically. Governments publish on their own schedules, from daily (UK) to quarterly (US, Canada), so each dataset shows the date its data is good to.
How do you decide a job has "strong signals"?
A role is marked strong when the posting itself mentions sponsorship, or when the employer had ten or more filings certified for the same kind of role. It is marked "posting says no" when the wording rules sponsorship out. The rules are fixed and published on the methodology page.
Why is Germany or Australia not a full list?
Germany has no sponsor licence, so no register of sponsoring companies exists; any employer can hire a qualified worker. Australia does not publish its approved sponsors. Inventing a list would be dishonest, so we cover these countries through the salary rules and through vacancies.
Is this immigration advice?
No. AscentWork organises public data. It is not a law firm or a regulated adviser. Check the official source linked beside each figure, and take advice on your own case from someone qualified to give it.
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