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Will this job actually keep you in the country?
Every other tool tells you whether a company sponsors. Stay scores every job by your real odds of building a lasting career here — under the rules as they exist today, not last year.
Your situation
A $78,000 offer is a DOL Level I wage — single-draw odds 15%. STEM gives ~3 lottery cycles, so your multi-year odds land near 39%.
↑ raise your odds
A $85,000 offer reaches Level II — lifting each draw 15% → 30% (just $7,000 more). Negotiating up, or targeting a higher-band title, literally buys you better odds.
open roles that skip the lottery entirely
universities · research nonprofits · hospitals · national labs
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Timeline copilot
Race your OPT clock — how many H-1B draws you really have, and what to do this week
Why now — the playbook broke in one year
Three federal shocks, one year, stacked on entry-level talent
effective feb 27, 2026
Wage-weighted lottery
The random lottery is gone. Entries now scale with salary level — so a typical new-grad offer drops from ~35% odds to roughly 15%. The rule targets entry-level talent directly.
effective sep 21, 2025
The $100,000 fee
A six-figure fee chilled employer appetite to sponsor — even though it mostly does NOT apply to students already here filing a change of status. The fear is doing damage the fine print doesn't.
effective sep 15, 2026
The 30-day rule
Duration of Status is over. Stays are capped at 4 years, the grace period is halved to 30 days, and every extension is now a formal USCIS filing that can be denied.
Lottery skip list
The escape hatch: 642 employers that skip the lottery
Universities, nonprofit research orgs, and teaching hospitals file H-1B year-round — no cap, no lottery. Post-wage-weighting, this is the single smartest path for entry-level talent.
Trinity Health
Cap-exempt
4,898
roles
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation
Cap-exempt
4,195
roles
Mass General Brigham
Nonprofit research
2,881
roles
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Cap-exempt
2,092
roles
Corewell Health
Cap-exempt
2,087
roles
University of Miami
University
1,962
roles
Baptist Health
University
1,471
roles
Memorial Hermann Health System
Cap-exempt
1,183
roles
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University
1,144
roles
The moat — a data engine competitors can't clone in a quarter
The sponsorship graph
Entity-resolved DOL LCA + PERM + USCIS outcomes, normalized to the role level. Tedious infrastructure — which is exactly why nobody has cleanly joined “this live req” to “this employer's entry-level sponsorship behavior.”
The only live 2026 survival model
First to encode the Feb-2026 weighted-lottery math and the Sep-2026 runway into a live per-candidate number. Being first on rules that are weeks old is a lead measured in months.
The outcome flywheel
Every “got sponsored / got auto-rejected / won the lottery” report sharpens the model. Better scores → more trust → more shares → more outcomes — a compounding data loop.
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Know your real odds before you waste 500 applications
Free forever to score jobs and browse lottery-free roles. Early members get the timeline copilot first.
Odds and scores are modeled from public DOL/USCIS data and the 2026 rule changes (weighted-selection final rule eff. Feb 27 2026; Duration-of-Status final rule eff. Sep 15 2026). Not legal or immigration advice.