In short. CapExempt is an information register, not a law firm, a recruiter or a government site. The register is free. A paid plan is a subscription that renews until you cancel, which you can do yourself at any time. Your first purchase can be refunded within 7 days. Do not copy or resell the paid feed.
1. Who we are
CapExempt (capexempt.com) is an independent project operated from France by its founder, an independent publisher (“we”, “us”). Contact: [email protected]. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by USCIS, the Department of Labor or any other government agency, nor by any employer listed.
By using the site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.
2. The service
CapExempt is an information register. It publishes:
- a list of US employers that appear exempt from the annual H-1B cap, with the ground that appears to apply and links to the public evidence behind that reading;
- hiring statistics drawn from public Department of Labor and USCIS data;
- job openings collected from those employers’ own public career sites, each linking to the original posting.
“Appears cap-exempt” is a research opinion, not a determination. Only USCIS decides whether a petition is exempt from the cap, case by case, on the facts of the employer and of the job. An employer’s presence in the register does not mean that it will sponsor you, that a given job qualifies, or that a petition will be approved; its absence does not mean it is subject to the cap.
Nothing on the site is legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. We cannot comment on anyone’s individual immigration situation. Confirm with the employer and with a licensed immigration attorney before you rely on anything here.
We are not an employer, a recruiter or a staffing agency. We do not receive or forward applications; you apply on the employer’s own site, under the employer’s own terms.
3. Accounts
You can read the register without an account. An account is created when you sign in for the first time: you enter your email address and we send a one-time link (a “magic link”) that works once, for 15 minutes. There is no password. Whoever controls the mailbox controls the account, so keep your mailbox secure and use an address that is yours.
One account is for one person. You must be at least 16 years old to create one. You can ask us to delete your account at any time by writing to [email protected]; see the privacy notice for what is erased and what must be kept.
4. Paid plans
The register, the evidence, the hiring data and the openings after a 7-day delay are free. A paid plan adds openings on the day they are collected, email alerts, additional filters and CSV export. A plan buys access to information and tools; it does not buy a job, a referral, a petition or advice.
There are three plans:
- Monthly: $29, charged every month.
- 3 months: $69, charged every 3 months.
- Yearly: $149, charged every year.
Automatic renewal. Each plan is a subscription. It renews automatically at the end of every period, at the price shown when you subscribed, and your payment method is charged again each time, until you cancel. You are told this before you pay and you tick a box to confirm it. Prices are in US dollars; tax is added where the law requires it and is shown at checkout before you pay.
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. Stripe sends a receipt for each charge. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries the card for a short time; access continues to the end of the period already paid and stops if the payment is not completed.
If we change the price of a plan, the new price applies to new subscriptions. For an existing subscription we will email you at least 30 days before the first renewal at a new price, and you can cancel before it takes effect.
Referral credit. When someone subscribes through your referral link, you both receive a credit worth one month, applied by Stripe to your next invoice. Credits have no cash value, are limited to one per new subscriber and twelve per referrer, and do not apply to your own subscription. We may withhold credits obtained by abuse.
5. Cancelling
You can cancel at any time, online, without writing or calling: open your account, choose Manage billing, and cancel in the Stripe customer portal. If you cannot sign in, email [email protected] from the account’s address and we cancel it for you.
Effect of cancelling. Cancelling stops all future charges. You keep paid access until the end of the period you have already paid for; after that the account goes back to the free view. Nothing is deleted: your account, alert settings and referral link remain, and you can subscribe again later.
6. Refunds
Your first purchase is refunded in full if you ask within 7 days of the charge. After that, and for renewals, payments are not refunded and there are no partial or pro-rata refunds for the unused part of a period; cancel to stop the next charge. Billing errors, such as a duplicate charge, are always corrected. Rights that the law of your country gives you as a consumer are not affected. The details are in the refund policy, which is part of these terms.
7. Acceptable use
You may use the site for your own job search, and to help people you advise (students, clients, family). You may quote or link to individual pages. You may not:
- scrape, crawl or bulk-download the paid feed (the same-day openings and their description excerpts), or use any automated means to collect it;
- resell, republish, redistribute or sublicense the paid feed, the CSV exports or the alert emails, or use them to build a competing job board or dataset;
- share your account or sign-in links so that other people get paid access;
- circumvent the access controls, probe the site for vulnerabilities without our agreement, overload it, or interfere with other people’s use;
- use the site to send spam to employers, or for anything unlawful.
The free register (employers.json) may be reused for non-commercial research with attribution and a link to CapExempt; write to us for anything else. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. If we close a paid account for a breach, no refund is due; if we close it for any other reason, we refund the unused part of the current period.
8. Employers’ postings and excerpts
Job postings belong to the employers that published them. We collect them from the employers’ public career sites and feeds, never from behind a login, and every opening links to the original posting on the employer’s own site, where the full text is and where applications are made.
Excerpt policy. We show at most a short plain-text excerpt of a posting’s description (up to 1,200 characters), marked as the employer’s, with the link back. We do not republish full descriptions. A posting may have changed or closed since it was collected; the employer’s page is the reference.
An employer can ask at any time for its excerpts, its feed or its entry to be corrected or removed; removal requests from an employer about its own postings are honoured without question (see below).
The register’s own text, layout, classification and compiled datasets belong to us. Underlying government data is public.
9. Corrections
We want the register to be right. If you see an error (a wrong ground, a wrong legal entity, an outdated affiliation, a posting that should not be listed), use the correction form or write to [email protected], ideally with a link to a public document. We review every request, normally within 10 business days, and change, annotate or remove the entry when the evidence supports it. The method page explains how employers are classified.
10. Disclaimers
The site is provided “as is” and “as available”. We work to keep it accurate and current, but we do not guarantee that the classifications, statistics, dates or postings are complete, correct or up to date, that every cap-exempt employer is listed, that every listed employer is in fact exempt, or that the site or the alert emails will be uninterrupted or error-free. Collection from employers’ sites can fail or lag without notice. Decisions about your career, your status and your applications are yours, and should be checked with the employer and a licensed attorney.
11. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of opportunity, income or data, arising from your use of the site or your reliance on its content, including immigration or employment outcomes. Our total liability to you for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or 50 US dollars if you paid nothing.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, nor the rights that mandatory consumer law gives you.
12. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of France. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Otherwise the courts of France have jurisdiction. Please write to us first: most problems are solved faster by email than by any procedure. Consumers in the European Union may also use a consumer mediation service; ask us for its contact details.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the service evolves. The date at the top shows the current version. If a change materially affects a paid subscription, we email subscribers at least 30 days before it applies; if you do not accept it you can cancel before that date, and continuing to use the service afterwards means you accept the new terms. If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
See also the privacy notice and the refund policy. Questions: [email protected].