What this site is
Visa Jobs is a free directory that answers one question: which employers actually
sponsor work visas, and — where the government discloses it — what they pay
sponsored staff. It is run by Fortune
Vacancies. There is nothing to sign up for and no account to create.
We do not list job openings. We have no openings data and never claim to. What we have is
the public record of who filed for sponsorship in a past period, which is a different and more
reliable thing: it tells you who has done this before, and is set up to do it again.
The five source files
Each country section is rebuilt from one government file. We quote the source and the data
period on every page, because both matter when you are reading a number.
Only the United States publishes pay. The US files
record a legally binding wage attestation for every certified filing, which is why US pages
show salaries. The UK, Canadian, Irish and Dutch files say only who is licensed,
approved or recognised — and, for Ireland and Canada, how many permits or
positions they were granted. None of them records pay. Any site showing you UK, Canadian,
Irish or Dutch sponsorship salaries from these sources is making them up. We will not.
How we build the pages
- United States. We count certified filings only — withdrawn and
denied cases are excluded. Wages are normalised to a yearly figure before comparison
(hourly rates are multiplied by 2,080 hours). Large employers file under many legal entity
names, so we merge those into one brand using a hand-checked list; without that step Amazon
alone would appear a dozen times over. An employer needs at least 25 certified filings to get
its own page, and a state at least 50, so that no page is built on a handful of records.
That yields FY2026 Q2: 190,152 certified filings across 854 employers.
- United Kingdom. The register lists every licensed organisation, so we
publish it as a searchable directory rather than 126,351 near-empty pages. Organisations
licensed on several routes are counted once. City names are merged across spelling and
capitalisation variants. A city needs at least 20 sponsors for its own page.
126,351 licensed sponsors across 5,756 towns and cities.
- Canada. Employers are aggregated across their approved positions,
occupations and provinces. The file carries a non-geographic "carrying on business outside
Canada" category, which we keep out of the province pages and label plainly in the directory.
8,750 employers and 47,487 approved positions in 2025 Q4.
- Ireland. The file names every company issued an employment permit this
year and counts them month by month, so unlike a sponsor register it shows who actually
hired from abroad rather than who was merely allowed to. We drop the sheet's own total row,
and the employer figures reconcile exactly with the government's separate county and sector
files. 7,085 companies issued 26,629 permits in January–August 2026. The county and
sector files are national totals that do not name companies, so we never attribute a county
or a sector to a named employer.
- Netherlands. The IND publishes its register as a web page rather than a
downloadable file, so we capture it to a dated CSV first and build from that. Work and
research are separate registers; organisations on both are counted once. Every entry keeps
its KVK (Chamber of Commerce) number so you can confirm the exact legal entity.
12,972 recognised sponsors as at 3 August 2026.
What this data cannot tell you
- A filing is history, not a promise. An employer who sponsored last
quarter is not obliged to sponsor you, and may have stopped.
- It is roughly a quarter out of date. Every government here publishes in
arrears. We state the period on every page so you always know how old the number is.
- It is not a list of open jobs. Where we link out to a job search, that
is a search on someone else's site, not an opening we know about.
- It says nothing about your eligibility. Visa eligibility depends on your
circumstances and the rules on the day you apply.
This is not immigration advice. We are not lawyers or
registered advisers, and nothing here is a substitute for professional advice or the official
guidance at
uscis.gov,
gov.uk and
canada.ca.
Corrections
If a figure here does not match the government file it came from, we want to know and we
will fix it. Email [email protected] with the page and the discrepancy.
We cannot change the underlying government record — if a filing about your organisation is
wrong at source, that has to be corrected with the publishing department.
How the site is funded
The site is free to use. We intend to fund it with advertising, and we link to
EvoResume, a resume tool run
by the same people, which means we have a commercial interest in you clicking it. You are
told that here rather than left to guess. See our privacy policy for
what advertising means for your data.
Contact: [email protected]