ABOUT_DATA

Where every number on this site comes from

Nothing on Waypoint Intelligence is estimated or invented. Every figure traces back to a federal filing published by USCIS or the Department of Labor. The AI layer explains what the database already proved, it does not generate the numbers themselves.

Sources

USCIS

H-1B, H-2A, H-2B petitions

Employer Data Hub filings: approvals and denials for new, continuing, and amended petitions, by fiscal year, employer, and state.

DOL

LCA disclosure data

Labor Condition Applications (ETA-9035) filed ahead of H-1B petitions, job title, wage offered, worksite, employer, and law firm, one file per fiscal year.

OFLC

Prevailing wage files

Government wage levels (1 through 4) by occupation and geographic area, published each filing cycle. Used for the Wages lookup on this site.

FEDERAL REGISTER

Immigration Updates news feed

H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, F-1 student, green card, and general policy changes, pulled directly from federalregister.gov and added automatically as new items are published.

POLICY MANUAL

USCIS Policy Manual update history

Official USCIS Policy Manual alerts and technical updates, the source for EB-1, EB-2, EB-4, and EB-5 green card category changes shown in Immigration Updates.

ENTITY_RESOLUTION

Same employer, a dozen spellings

Raw government filings list employer names exactly as typed on each application, inconsistently. Before any number reaches this site, filings are matched to one canonical employer record, so searching "Microsoft" finds every filing regardless of how it was originally spelled.

MICROSOFT CORP
Microsoft USA
Microsoft Corp.
→ Microsoft [entity_id: canonical]

What this data is, and isn't

is

Public federal record

Historical filing activity, who filed, how many, approved or denied, at what wage.

is not

Legal advice

Patterns in the data are informational. They don't determine the outcome of any individual case.

is not

Real-time

Data updates each filing cycle when the government publishes new files, not continuously.

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