About

The sponsorship record of every employer that has one

Moving country for work starts with one question: which employers will actually sponsor someone like me? Governments publish a great deal of the answer, in registers and disclosure files that are free, official and nearly unusable: a 250 MB spreadsheet here, a 127,000-row list there, each in its own format and country.

AscentWork reads those files every day, merges them, and matches them to the jobs the same employers have open. It adds nothing that is not in the official data, and it tells you plainly what the data cannot say.

What we do not do

  • We do not estimate, survey or crowd-source. Every number comes from a government file and carries that file's date.
  • We do not claim a job is sponsored. A licence or past filing describes the employer, never a particular vacancy.
  • We do not give immigration advice.
  • We do not invent a list where a country publishes none. Germany has no sponsor licence; Australia does not publish its sponsors. We say so.

Methodology

Employers

An employer is one legal name inside one country's data, spelled as the government file spells it. Rows with the same name (ignoring punctuation and letter case) are combined. Names are not corrected, so an employer that files under several legal entities appears as several records.

The same employer in other countries

Where the same brand name appears in another country's data, the employer page links to it. This match is on the name alone, after removing legal forms such as Ltd, LLC or B.V. It is labelled as a name match because two unrelated organisations can share a name.

Jobs

Vacancies come from employers' own public job boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, through the posting feeds those platforms publish for this purpose. A board is linked to an employer only when the board's own company name matches the employer's name. Each job is placed in a country from its stated location and, where that country has a register, tied to the employer's record there. We store the title, location, date, pay if published, and a link to the employer's posting. We do not copy job descriptions.

Sponsorship signals on a job

Each posting's text is scanned once for explicit statements about sponsorship. From that and the employer's record, a job gets one of four labels, by fixed rules:

  • Posting says no. The wording rules sponsorship out, or requires existing work rights.
  • Strong signals. The posting says sponsorship is available, or the employer had ten or more US Labor Condition Applications certified in the same role family during the period covered.
  • Sponsor on record. The employer is in the official data for the job's country, and the posting says nothing either way.
  • No register here. The country publishes no employer register and the posting is silent.

The text scan is a pattern match, not a human reading. It can miss a statement or misread one, and postings go stale. Treat the label as a reason to look closer, not a decision.

Salaries by occupation

US figures are the wages employers stated on certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped by the occupation title on the filing. They are base pay offered for that filing, not a survey of what people earn, and they exclude bonus and equity. Canada's list has positions approved but no wages.

Visa route figures

Salary floors are entered from the official page for each route. On every refresh the pipeline re-opens that page and confirms the figure is still printed there. If it is not, the route is flagged as possibly changed instead of being shown as current.

Freshness and failure

Registers refresh daily and vacancies twice a day, in the cloud, with no manual step. If a source fails or changes shape, the last good copy stays live and is marked as stale on the data page. A register is never replaced by a partial download.

Independence

AscentWork is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for any government agency or employer named on the site. Employers cannot pay to appear, rank higher or change their record.

Corrections

Records are shown as the government publishes them. If an official record is wrong, the publishing agency is the place to fix it, and the correction flows through here on the next refresh. If we have matched a job board or a name to the wrong employer, tell us and we will fix it.