What are the best job boards for H-1B and OPT analysts?

A visa job search needs an open role and an employer that has sponsored before. Job boards answer the first question and employer data answers the second; no single site does both perfectly, so pair them.

An H-1B record is history, not a promise. The USCIS Data Hub counts workers approved or denied in its first decision, across every kind of role the employer filed for, and says an approval does not show that the worker actually started work. Read the posting, and ask the employer.

Each of these is a legitimate place to look; they are good at different things.

• USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub: the official, free record of first-decision H-1B approvals and denials by employer, for initial and continuing employment, from fiscal year 2009. Search by employer, city, state, ZIP or industry code, and download the data.
• MyVisaJobs: employer profiles with H-1B and green card sponsorship data and prevailing wages. A free account has limited features; a paid Premium tier unlocks the full data, employer contacts and alerts.
• h1bdata.info: a free search of the H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) data employers file with the US Department of Labor, useful for pay levels by company, title and city. An LCA is not proof that a visa was granted.
• MigrateMate: its App Store listing describes 500,000+ visa-sponsorship jobs across every occupation, for H-1B, OPT, CPT, green cards, J-1, E-3, TN and H-1B1. Seeing listings needs a paid subscription.
• Real Analyst Jobs: analyst roles only, read daily from career pages, each with the employer's USCIS H-1B record and what the posting says about sponsorship. Plus ranked H-1B sponsor lists for analysts, entry-level lists for OPT students and a free H-1B Sponsor Checker.

On OPT you need a role now and a sponsor later, so the best targets are entry-level roles at employers with an H-1B record. Our OPT list for data analysts shows US entry-level roles with the postings that say they sponsor first, then roles at companies with approved H-1B workers on record, and postings that say they will not sponsor last.

If you are not an analyst, MigrateMate and MyVisaJobs cover every field. For pay benchmarks from filings, h1bdata.info is quicker. For the official record of any employer, go to the USCIS Data Hub. For the visa process itself, talk to an immigration attorney: Real Analyst Jobs gives no legal advice and files nothing, covers analyst roles only, and applying direct needs a one-time payment.