H1B Sponsor

Read-only MCP server for querying H-1B sponsoring employers from the USCIS Employer Information dataset.

Repository: https://github.com/ujjwalredd/H1B-Sponsor-MCP.git

This server lets MCP clients answer questions like:

• "Does Stripe appear in the H-1B employer data?"
• "Which companies had the most H-1B approvals in Texas in FY2024?"
• "How did manufacturing sponsorship change from FY2009 to FY2026?"

The bundled cleaned dataset covers fiscal years 2009-2026 with 1,055,650 employer-year/location records and 392,843 distinct employer name strings. FY2026 is a partial year.

What It Provides

Tool	Purpose
search_employers	Find employers by partial name, with lifetime totals
employer_profile	Get year-by-year approvals, denials, locations, and sectors for matching employers
top_sponsors	Rank sponsors by approvals, denials, petitions, approval rate, new employment approvals, or continuation approvals
yearly_trends	Return per-year totals from FY2009-FY2026, optionally filtered by state or NAICS sector
industry_breakdown	Summarize sponsorship by NAICS sector
state_breakdown	Summarize sponsorship by US state or territory
dataset_info	Return dataset coverage, row counts, and caveats

Quick Start

uvx can fetch and run the server directly from GitHub:

uvx --from git+https://github.com/ujjwalredd/H1B-Sponsor-MCP.git h1b-sponsor-mcp

After the package is published to PyPI, this shorter form should also work:

uvx h1b-sponsor-mcp

Install uv if needed:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Claude Code

claude mcp add h1b-sponsors -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/ujjwalredd/H1B-Sponsor-MCP.git h1b-sponsor-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add this server to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "h1b-sponsors": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+https://github.com/ujjwalredd/H1B-Sponsor-MCP.git",
        "h1b-sponsor-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Manual Install

git clone https://github.com/ujjwalredd/H1B-Sponsor-MCP.git
cd H1B-Sponsor-MCP
python -m pip install -e .
h1b-sponsor-mcp

The cleaned parquet is included in the package. To use a different cleaned dataset file:

export H1B_DATA_PATH=/path/to/h1b_employers_clean.parquet

H1B_DATA_PATH must point to a .parquet file.

Data

• Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, Employer Information exports.
• Coverage: fiscal years 2009-2026.
• Packaged file: src/h1b_mcp/data/h1b_employers_clean.parquet.
• Details: see DATA.md.

Recommended source citation:

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). H-1B Employer Data Hub, Employer Information exports. https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub

This project is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by USCIS, DHS, or the U.S. Government. The source data comes from a U.S. federal government publication; U.S. Government works are generally not copyright-protected in the United States under 17 U.S.C. Section 105. This is a practical attribution note, not legal advice.

Important caveats:

• FY2026 is partial.
• Counts are petitions, not unique workers.
• Employer names are not entity-resolved; the same company may appear under multiple spellings or legal names.
• approval_rate is approvals / (approvals + denials).
• This project is an information tool, not legal or immigration advice.

Security Model

This server is intentionally narrow:

• stdio transport by default; no network listener is opened by this package.
• Read-only data access; no mutating MCP tools.
• No SQL, eval, exec, pickle loading, or shell execution.
• User search text is escaped before regex matching.
• Years, states, NAICS sectors, sort metrics, and limits are validated before the data layer runs.
• Results are hard-capped to protect client context windows.
• Errors returned to clients are sanitized; stack traces stay in stderr logs.

See SECURITY.md for the full policy and vulnerability reporting instructions.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest
ruff check src tests

For quick local test runs without installing the editable package:

PYTHONPATH=src pytest

Run the MCP inspector:

mcp dev src/h1b_mcp/server.py

Open Source

• Contributions: CONTRIBUTING.md
• Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Support: SUPPORT.md
• Security: SECURITY.md
• Notice and attribution: NOTICE.md
• License: MIT

The source code is MIT licensed. Retain USCIS attribution when redistributing the packaged or derived data files.