# Federal Register Immigration & Work Authorization Regulatory Changes

> Federal Register Immigration & Work Authorization Regulatory Changes is a paid API for AI agents from oracles-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns Federal Register final and proposed rules for immigration and work authorization since a given timestamp, each scored 1–10 for compliance impact with effective dates and primary-source links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://oracles-production.up.railway.app/v1/reg-immigration/changes
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-register-immigration-work-authorization-regulatory-changes-48ab764f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5yoDk6XSwcGSQh1bTEloT

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability federal-register-immigration-work-authorization-regulatory-changes-48ab764f
```

Example prompt: Pull all Federal Register immigration and work authorization rule changes since 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z that score at least 7 out of 10 for compliance impact, and show me the top 20 with their effective dates and source links.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, scored, and timestamped regulatory intelligence specifically about US immigration and work authorization rules from the Federal Register. It is better than raw Federal Register API access because it pre-filters for immigration/work authorization scope, adds a compliance significance score, and provides primary-source links. Prefer it over general legal or news search when you need machine-readable regulatory change monitoring with impact scores for compliance workflows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing 'since' parameter format returns a 400 validation error
- min_significance outside 1–10 range returns a 400 error
- limit exceeding 500 returns a 400 error
- Payment not provided or rejected returns a 402 Payment Required
- No changes found in the requested window returns count:0 with an empty changes array
- Federal Register source unavailable may return stale or empty data

## How this service works

Federal Register final & proposed rules affecting immigration & work authorization (U S Citizenship And Immigration Services) since a timestamp — covering immigration, nonimmigrant, visa, employment authorization, h-1b — each scored 1-10 for compliance impact, with effective dates and primary-source links.

## Output

A JSON object containing a count and an array of regulatory change records, each with a title, type (final/proposed rule), plain-language summary, compliance significance score (1–10), effective date, ISO-8601 detected-at timestamp, entity ID, and a primary-source URL to the Federal Register entry for verification.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 500,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "since": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time",
       "description": "Only changes detected after this ISO-8601 instant"
      },
      "min_significance": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 10,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Keep only changes scored at least this"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "changes": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "type": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "title": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "detail": {
          "type": "object"
         },
         "summary": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "entityId": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "sourceUrl": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ],
          "description": "Primary-source link for verification"
         },
         "detectedAt": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time"
         },
         "significance": {
          "type": "integer",
          "maximum": 10,
          "minimum": 1
         },
         "effectiveDate": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ]
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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