About the Hire4Real Bot

What we crawl

• State workforce agency WARN WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ notice pages (California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey - 10 priority states at launch, expanding to 50)
• U.S. Department of Labor OFLC OFLC — Office of Foreign Labor Certification / FLAG filing portal The DOL office + website handling these certificationsDOL, not DHS; FLAG handles labor certs, not visasOfficial source ↗ quarterly disclosure files for PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)→●PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)→I-140 — employer petitions USCIS→Priority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)→Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ and LCA LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wage→●LCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)→Cap lottery registration (USCIS)→I-129 petition (USCIS)→Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗
• USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wage→LCA — wage promise to DOL→Cap lottery registration (USCIS)→I-129 petition (USCIS)→●Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ Electronic Registration aggregate statistics

Crawler etiquette

• User-Agent: Hire4Real/1.0 (+https://hire4real.fyi/about-bot)
• Rate limit: 1 request per 10 seconds per source
• robots.txt: respected on every host
• Cadence: daily WARN WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ ingest at 06:00 UTC; hourly RSS republication
• Caching: aggressive local caching to minimize duplicate requests
• No forms, no JavaScript rendering: we read HTML as served and do not POST or fill forms

What we publish

We publish the WARN WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act notices we ingest at /layoffs, as an RSS feed at /feed/warn.xml, and as a cross-reference on individual employer detail pages. WARN WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act notices are public records published by state workforce agencies under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988; Hire4Real is not a layoff prediction service.