How this site knows anything.
The three series
Each one is a count of filings, expressed as a percentage of the employer’s own headcount as the employer reported it to the SEC. A percentage of headcount is the only form in which two employers of different sizes can be held against each other at all.
- Intent to hire — H-1B Labor Condition Applications.
- Intent to keep — PERM permanent-residency sponsorships.
- Intent to fire — WARN Act notices.
LCA and PERM are never pooled
A temporary visa the employer controls and a permanent-residency sponsorship the employer pays for are opposite-signed facts about the same company. Adding them produces a number that means nothing. They are drawn as two series, always.
Follow-through
The ratio between the two: of the sponsorships an employer began, how many it carried through. It is a first-class number on this site rather than a derived one, because it is the question the two series exist to answer together.
The words this site never uses
No adjective this site owns describes an employer. Where a category is needed it uses
the government’s attested categories in the government’s words
(H-1B_DEPENDENT, WILLFUL_VIOLATOR). The kill-list is
enforced in CI, not merely published.
The source register
Every federal source this site has fetched, the exact endpoint it was fetched from, and the instant it answered. Receipts, not data: what is recorded is the endpoint, the time, the size and the digest — never the file. Register generated .
Exclusions
We don’t cover our founder’s employer or its direct peers. The reason is printed here.