Federal records: US Department of Labor, USCIS
The visa body shops
Some firms hire H-1B workers to do their own work. Others exist to supply those workers to somebody else. The second kind sponsors the visa, bills a client company for the hours, and keeps the difference. The worker’s right to stay runs through the firm.
Nobody has to guess which firms these are. Every H-1B application names the employer’s industry, asks whether the firm is H-1B dependent, and asks whether the worker will sit at another company’s worksite. The firms answer those questions themselves. This page counts their answers.
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What counts as a body shop here
“Body shop” is trade slang, not a legal category. It is used here as a test with four parts, and every part is the employer’s own answer on its own certified application.
Move the thresholds yourself
The four parts above are a judgement, and the 50% cuts are a convention — “more than half” — not something the data proposes. Set them where you think they belong and the count below follows.
Where firms actually sit, in ten-point bands. The marked band holds the cut.
The firms that meet the test
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Same job title, two prices
Four years of filings
Who has actually been barred
What no agency publishes
How concentrated the programme is
Method and limits
Built by scripts/build_visa_bodyshops.py and
scripts/build_visa_staffing.py. Source files:
DOL
OFLC disclosure data and the
USCIS
H-1B Employer Data Hub.