Where EB-3 jobs actually come from, and how to check one yourself

EB3 Job Search - চাকরি কীভাবে খুঁজবেন? EB3 VISA For BangladeshiThe video is older than this article, which was researched separately, so the two may not cover exactly the same ground.

The honest answer to "where do I find an EB-3 job" is that you will not find one, because that is not how it works.

I know that sounds discouraging. But understanding why can at least stop you paying the wrong people, and there is a real way to verify a sponsor, which I will get to.

Why you cannot search for an "EB-3 job"

Start with what PERM is for. The whole exercise answers one question:

Is there no qualified American worker available for this job?

The employer has to prove there is not. Hence the advertising, the state agency job order, the applications received and reviewed.

Now notice: those adverts are aimed at American workers. Not at you. They do not say "EB-3 sponsorship available", because saying so would collapse the entire argument.

So the jobs that are advertised are not looking for you, and the jobs that are looking for you are not advertised.

So how does the connection actually happen

From the DOL file, Bangladeshi cases arrived by roughly three routes.

1. You already worked there

The largest and safest route. The file records what status each applicant held at filing.

Status at filing	Cases	Denial rate
Outside the US	731	20.1%
F-1 student	337	8.3%
H-1B	126	2.4%
F-2	38	10.5%
B-2	38	13.2%

F-1 and H-1B together account for 463 people, about 29%. They were already in the country studying or working, and the employer started PERM to make them permanent.

This route is denied least often. From H-1B, just 2.4%.

2. Large employers converting their own staff

The file carries 65 Bangladeshi cases under Intel Corporation, for materials engineers and software developers, at six-figure wages.

No agent was involved. These people got hired by Intel, and Intel then started their green card process.

3. Staffing companies filing in bulk

The biggest numbers, and the biggest risk.

Employer	Bangladeshi cases	Still valid at the end
GDI Services Inc.	150	0
Controlled Contamination Services	143	47
Labor Guys, LLC	101	16
Intel Corporation	65	5
Mitra QSR KNE, LLC	48	38
HES Facilities, LLC	41	0, all denied
Lasership Inc.	39	26
LRC2 Management	35	0
Cleanstar National Inc	34	0, all denied

Similar kinds of company, wildly different results. Mitra QSR: 38 of 48 survived. GDI Services: none of 150.

Where it happens, by state and industry

State	Cases	Denied
Georgia	186	37
California	126	30
Pennsylvania	107	34
Wisconsin	82	0
Florida	81	12
New Jersey	78	1
Mississippi	78	10
Texas	72	18
Illinois	67	1
Ohio	67	0

Wisconsin: 82 cases, not one denied. Ohio: 67, not one. Against Georgia at 37 of 186 and Texas at 18 of 72.

By industry, the two largest NAICS codes are 5617, services to buildings, meaning cleaning companies, with 429 cases, and 7225, restaurants, with 210.

Now the useful part: checking a sponsor yourself

Read this bit closely, because it is the part you can act on.

The DOL PERM disclosure file is public. Anyone can download it. A new one appears quarterly, and it records every case with the employer's name and address, the job, the wage and the outcome.

Which means when someone gives you a company name, you can go and see what that company has actually done.

Step by step

1. Get the employer's full name and state from the agent, in writing. "A hotel in Texas" will not do.

2. Go to the DOL FLAG site and find the PERM files under performance data.

3. Open the file and search the employer name.

4. What you are looking at:

What you see	What it means
The company is not there at all	Never sponsored before. Could be new, but there is no record
Many cases, mostly Denied	Warning
Many cases, mostly Certified-Expired	They get certifications and never file the I-140
Many cases, a good share Certified	This is what you want
Very low `EMPLOYER_NUM_EMPLOYEES`	Small company, ability to pay will be hard to prove

5. Check the wage column too. Does what the agent quotes match what that company actually filed?

Check the company's size as well Across the Bangladeshi cases the median employer has about 1,200 staff. But 181 cases are at companies with under 50 employees and 94 at companies with under 10. Small is not automatically bad, but failure to prove ability to pay is the leading cause of I-140 denial, and that is hard for a ten-person firm.

What not to do

Do not search "EB3 job" online. Almost everything you find is agent advertising.

Do not pay up front for someone to "find you a job". No money before a job offer exists.

Do not pay for an employer whose name you have not been told. There is only one reason to withhold it, and it is not a good one.

In one line

You will not find an EB-3 job, because they are not advertised. What happens is that a relationship exists first, and the paperwork follows.

But when someone gives you a name, you can check it, because the file is public. Ask for the name. If you do not get one, there is nothing else to ask.