Verticals - H1B Labor

459 findings on 337,367 real DOL H-1B disclosures.

We pulled 337,367 records from the DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure register and ran our H-1B integrity pack: wage-below-prevailing detection, employer-concentration / body-shop pattern detection, NAICS volume anomaly. 459 deterministic findings, court-ready CREB output for every one. Real federal data, not a model, not a probability, not an opinion.

JIL is not an immigration law firm, not a payroll provider, not an HR platform. It is a payment-integrity layer that detects and proves wage, classification, and program-compliance violations - operating from either employer-side payroll integration or worker-side document upload, with strict consent isolation between the two.

$50M-$150M
ARR TAM at maturity.
~600K
approved H1Bs in workforce.
15
net-new H1B-specific checks.
In plain English

Here's what we surface for you.

If you're an immigration attorney filing H-1B / H-2B / H-2A petitions, a corporate immigration team at an H-1B sponsoring employer, a DOL OFLC compliance officer, or a USCIS adjudicator, this is what JIL detects in H-1B program flows. JIL pulls live data from DOL OFLC LCA disclosure (337K real LCAs seeded), USCIS processing-times API, USAspending awards, and 7 other federal datasets to surface wage / sponsor / specialty-occupation issues before LCAs get denied or petitions RFE'd.

Wage compliance (vs prevailing wage)

Sponsor's offered wage is below the prevailing wage for the SOC code + worksite zip code. JIL cross-checks against DOL OES wage data + the OFLC FLAG portal published prevailing-wage determinations. Surfaces the gap before LCA submission so the sponsor either bumps the wage or accepts the denial risk.

LCA-to-actual-job matching

LCA was filed for SOC code 15-1252 (software developer) at $130K but the actual role is staff-augmentation contracting placed at a third-party client site. JIL surfaces the mismatch between certified LCA terms and actual employment documentation - the kind of mismatch DOL Wage and Hour finds in audit.

Specialty-occupation determination support

USCIS RFE'd the petition challenging specialty-occupation status. JIL pulls the SOC code's typical educational requirements (BLS), prior approved petitions for the same SOC code (USCIS data), and the sponsor's prior approval rate to support the petition's specialty-occupation argument.

Sponsor track record

Sponsor's prior LCA filings (on the OFLC public file), prior denial / withdrawal patterns, prior DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement actions, prior debarment from H-1B program. JIL surfaces the sponsor's actual approval rate vs the rate they're claiming in marketing materials to prospective foreign hires.

Public-access file completeness

20 CFR § 655.760 requires sponsors to maintain a public-access file with specific documents (LCA, wage rate, prevailing-wage source, etc.). JIL checks completeness against the regulatory checklist and surfaces gaps before DOL Wage and Hour shows up for an audit.

Sealed evidence per finding

Every check produces a sealed evidence record. Useful for DOL OFLC review, USCIS RFE responses, and (if it escalates) administrative proceedings. Admissible at OALJ without an expert witness.

How to engage: immigration attorney or sponsor's in-house immigration team engages JIL. Per-petition fixed fee, or per-LCA basis points for sponsor-scale processing. See the live POC with 459 findings against 337K real DOL OFLC LCAs.

01 - Day-one findings, real public data

337,367 real DOL H-1B disclosures audited.

On day one, h1b-engine ingested 337,367 real Labor Condition Applications from the DOL OFLC Disclosure Data files (FY2024 Q3 + Q4, 80MB+130MB raw Excel) - representing every H-1B wage attestation a US employer filed in two quarters - and produced 459 Tier 1 findings across wage-below-prevailing, employer-concentration, and NAICS-anomaly checks.

337,367
real LCAs from FY2024 Q3+Q4.
459
Tier 1 findings.
47,132
distinct sponsoring employers.

What we uncovered (top 5)

SubjectCategoryFinding
138 wage-shortfall LCAswage_rate_paid < prevailing_wageDOL Wage and Hour priority
250 employer-concentrationsingle FEIN with >100 LCAs in windowBody-shop pattern signal
75 NAICS-anomalyNAICS code with >500 LCAs in yearConcentrated industry risk
Top sponsors47,132 distinct FEINsDistribution intelligence
1,794 NAICS codesacross the full economyCross-industry view
What data we used

DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure Data

DOL ETA quarterly XLSX (real federal data, no DUA required). No subscription, no DUA, no per-record licensing. The full ingest manifest is replayable bit-identically.

How we did it

Deterministic pass

Tier 1 ran a single deterministic pass against the ingested public dataset. SQL aggregates only - no stochastic LLM in the verdict path. Ava, our in-house agentic AI, groups, narrates, and routes findings; it never produces the underlying flag. Same kernel that ships the other 7 verticals.

What this means for your business

For a DOL Wage and Hour investigator, USCIS FDNS officer, or DOJ Civil Rights attorney, this is the LCA-anomaly queue you have always wanted - ranked, with the wage-shortfall column joined to the prevailing-wage column from the same DOL filing, and the named sponsoring employer pulled out. 138 wage-below-prevailing findings are 138 enforcement leads with the employer's own attestation as exhibit A.

What Tier 2 unlocks. Customer engagement adds the sponsoring employer's payroll attestations, I-9 worksite documentation, third-party-placement contracts. Tier 2 cross-references LCA filings against the actual paid-wage records, surfaces the underpayment delta per beneficiary, and produces a sealed CREB suitable for DOL settlement, USCIS RFE response, or civil class-action support.

02 - Architecture, visual

H1B Labor Integrity at a glance.

Where the integrity layer sits, what it produces, and how the sealed CREB flows back to the buyer's existing systems.

LCA vs W-2 JIL SOVEREIGN TECHNOLOGIES VERTICAL BRIEF · 04 OF 08 H1B LABOR INTEGRITY LCA wage compliance, benching detection, body-shop signals, kickback flows, lottery gaming, location arbitrage. ACTIVE H1B WORKFORCE 600K+ USCIS approved petitions in workforce EST. ANNUAL WAGE THEFT $5-15B 10-20% of LCA-filed wages CHECKS FROM HEALTHCARE 100+ Reused with retuning. Cleanest mapping. FRAUD PATTERNS LCA vs actual wage delta Benching (unpaid status gaps) Worker-to-employer kickbacks Body shops (bill-to-pay ratio) LCA worksite arbitrage Lottery gaming (shell employers) Specialty occupation downgrade JIL APPROACH DOL OFLC LCA cross-reference Payroll integration (ADP, Workday) Worker-side ingestion path Reverse-flow (kickback) detection CREB for DOL WHD, USCIS, DOJ KEY BUYERS Tech-buyer compliance teams Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple DOL Wage and Hour Division Primary LCA enforcer Plaintiff-side firms FLSA collective actions, class actions HR-tech platforms ADP, Paychex, Workday channels DETECTION AND PROOF. NOT RECOVERY. Protects legitimately-employed H1B workers from exploitation by abusive employers. jilsovereign.com RAN · CourtChain · PoCS · Sealed Escrow
Figure - H1B Labor architecture, integration surface, and CREB output
03 - Why this vertical

Where this product earns its place.

The strategic case for H1B Labor as a JIL line of business - what makes the wedge defensible, what makes it economically meaningful, and how it compounds with the rest of the platform.

Clean mapping

Same five questions, employment-shaped

The healthcare 175 check framework asks: did the payment match the documented service, did the provider exist with proper credentials, was the amount appropriate, were there duplicates, were the parties legitimate. H1B fraud is the same five questions translated to employment.

Two pathways

Federal slow lane, commercial fast lane

Federal enforcement (DOL Wage and Hour, USCIS FDNS, ICE HSI, DOJ) on the 18-24 month procurement gate. Commercial (large-tech compliance teams, plaintiff-side firms, E&O carriers, HR-tech platforms) on the 60-120 day path.

Reputation

Protects workers, not enforces immigration

The work protects H1B workers from exploitation by abusive employers - DOL Wage and Hour back-wage recovery on behalf of legitimately-employed workers. Framing matters and avoids the tensions of broader immigration enforcement.

HR-tech channel

ADP, Workday, Rippling distribution

ADP, Paychex, Workday, Rippling, and Gusto all have customer bases that include H1B sponsors. A payroll-integrated compliance product creates an unusual distribution channel with recurring economics.

04 - What we build

Net-new checks, sealed evidence.

A representative slice of the H1B Labor-specific check pack. Each one runs in the same five-stage pipeline as the rest of the platform - intake, profile load, parallel checks, verdict, sealed CREB - and ships with a 14-of-20 BFT signature, a CourtChain L1 anchor, and a reproducibility manifest pinning the exact check-logic version.

Check

LCA-vs-W2 Wage Delta

Annualized actual wage from W-2 and pay-period data versus LCA-promised wage. Accounts only for legitimate deductions. Flags delta exceeding tolerance per 20 CFR 655.731.

Check

Benching Detection

Identifies pay periods with zero or below-prevailing-wage payment while H1B status is maintained. Flags cumulative gap days. 20 CFR 655.731(c)(7), Matter of Vinayagam.

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Bill-Rate to Pay-Rate Ratio

Body-shop signal. Calculates ratio of end-client bill rate to worker pay rate. Flags ratios above 3.0x against industry benchmarks (typically 1.5x-2.5x for legitimate IT staffing).

Check

Worksite-vs-LCA Location

Cross-references LCA-filed worksite against badge access, IP geolocation, payroll address, and end-client invoice address. Flags mismatches that would require a new LCA.

Check

Reverse-Flow Kickback

Detects payments from worker (or worker's family) to employer or employer-related entities. Includes training-fee payments, loan payments, and family-to-employer wires. 20 CFR 655.731(c)(9).

Check

Beneficiary Multiplicity

Detects petitioning patterns indicative of lottery gaming - multiple shell employers filing for the same beneficiary. Cross-references the FY2025+ beneficiary-centric lottery records.

Check

Specialty Occupation Validation

Verifies the position requires at least a US bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a specific field. Verifies worker credentials. Verifies actual duties align. INA 214(i).

Check

Public Access File Completeness

Verifies presence of all required PAF elements per 20 CFR 655.760: copy of LCA, prevailing-wage source, posting evidence, satisfaction-of-required-elements documentation, summary of benefits.

05 - Buyer profile

Who runs this in production.

The buyer pattern for H1B Labor - who carries the budget, who carries the regulatory exposure, and how the engagement starts. Most first engagements are a Retroactive Proof Audit on a defined lookback window; Pre-Settlement integration follows once the check pack is calibrated to the customer's profile.

Tech-buyer compliance

Direct sales motion

Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple all run staffing-supplier compliance programs auditing their staffing suppliers (Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, Accenture, Deloitte). Direct sales motion, 60-120 day cycle.

Plaintiff-side and worker-advocacy

FLSA and class action

Plaintiff-side employment firms specializing in H1B wage and hour collective actions. Worker advocacy organizations (South Asian Network, NICE, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante). Whistleblower-protection firms.

HR-tech platforms

Channel partnerships

ADP Workforce Now, Paychex Flex, Workday Payroll, Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, Paylocity, UKG. Embedded compliance layer with channel-partnership economics.

Federal enforcement

Federal procurement gate

DOL Wage and Hour Division (primary LCA enforcer), DOL OIG, USCIS FDNS, ICE HSI, DOJ Civil Rights Division IER, DOJ Criminal Fraud Section, DOL OFLC. Standard 18-24 month gate.

06 - Pricing pattern

Four-SKU model. No percentage. No contingency.

Pricing carries over from the canonical four-SKU model unchanged - Retroactive Scan (flat fee), Retroactive Proof Audit (with credit-back against the next subscription tier), Pre-Settlement Subscription (tiered annual), and per-case CREB bundles (Tier 3 court-ready evidence). Asset Intelligence is the standard fifth SKU where the vertical needs it.

No percentage of recovery. No contingency. No success fees. JIL is detection and proof, not recovery. Recovery sits with the customer or its existing partners (subrogation counsel, recovery vendors, regulators). The structure is what allows JIL to operate as neutral integrity infrastructure across plaintiffs and defendants, payers and payees, regulators and the regulated, on the same case.

07 - Engagement

Ready to scope an H1B Labor engagement?

Initial briefings are 60 minutes. Retroactive Proof Audit lookback windows, check-pack profile design, and integration runbook are available under NDA. We start where the buyer's procurement gate is shortest.

08 - Built on the JIL Settlement Engine

One kernel. Eight industries.

This vertical runs on the same sovereign L1 + attestation network that ships the other 7. Kernel age: 18+ months. Adding a vertical: ~1 week. Competitor moat: build the kernel first.

Detect. Prove. Seal. Detection and proof, not recovery. Post-quantum bound, court-admissible, replayable bit-identically.