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Cap-exempt jobs by state

Every state and territory with at least one employer in the register, with the number of employers that appear cap-exempt and how many have been verified by hand. Each link opens the register filtered to that state; the live-openings count appears where an employer's career site is connected.

1,028 employers across 54 states and territories, 85 verified by hand. Counts come from the register and change with the weekly review; openings counts come from the nightly collection.

Reading the numbers

The count is of petitioning employers whose record passed the register's tests, not of jobs or of campuses. A state university system that files all its petitions under one legal name counts once, even if it has a dozen campuses; a system whose campuses file separately counts once per campus. This is why California, New York and Texas lead and why some populous states look smaller than expected.

Location is the city and state the employer gave USCIS as its address, which is usually the main campus or headquarters. Large health systems and universities with branch campuses hire in other places too; the openings on an employer's page carry their own locations.

Because the second, third and fourth grounds (affiliated nonprofits, nonprofit research organizations and government research bodies) are still being verified employer by employer, states with many teaching hospitals and national laboratories are under-counted for now.

"Cap-exempt jobs near me"

The cap exemption attaches to the employer, so a search for cap-exempt jobs in a given place is really a search for the qualifying employers in that place and then for their openings. The practical route is:

  1. Pick the state above to see its employers, then sort by live openings or by the occupations they have certified LCAs for.
  2. Open the openings search and filter by state; the state of each posting is read from its location text and falls back to the employer's home state.
  3. For employers without a connected feed, go straight to their careers site from the employer page. The absence of a feed says nothing about whether they are hiring.

Remote positions deserve a note. An H-1B worker's work location is recorded on the Labor Condition Application, and a position worked remotely from another state needs an LCA covering that place of employment; employers vary in whether they will do this. Ask the hiring department early.

This is not legal advice. The counts describe the register, a research product built from public data, and not an official determination. Cap exemption is decided by USCIS on each petition. Confirm with the employer and a licensed immigration attorney. CapExempt is independent and not affiliated with any US government agency.