# GovParse Visa Sponsorship Stats

> GovParse Visa Sponsorship Stats is a paid API for AI agents from api.govparse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns headline aggregate statistics over DOL OFLC disclosure data, including distinct sponsoring employer counts, LCA and PERM case totals with certified counts, and fiscal years covered.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.govparse.io/v1/stats/sponsors
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/govparse-visa-sponsorship-stats-a250c36a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nkW1SbPMI-YcN-zwtutBo

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 govparse-visa-sponsorship-stats-a250c36a
```

Example prompt: How big is the visa sponsorship dataset on GovParse — give me the total number of sponsoring employers, LCA cases, PERM cases, and the fiscal years it covers.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a fast, high-level snapshot of the visa sponsorship dataset size and coverage before committing to deeper employer-level queries, or when you want to verify data completeness and fiscal year coverage without paginating through individual records.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable (5xx) if the GovParse API is down
- Payment required or invalid x402 payment header returns 402
- Empty or stale data if the underlying DOL OFLC refresh has not yet completed

## How this service works

How much visa-sponsorship data is on file? Headline aggregates over DOL OFLC disclosure data: distinct sponsoring employers, LCA and PERM case totals with certified counts, and the fiscal years covered.

## Output

A JSON object containing headline aggregate metrics: number of distinct sponsoring employers, total LCA case count, certified LCA count, total PERM case count, certified PERM count, and the range of fiscal years represented in the dataset.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {}
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/govparse-visa-sponsorship-stats-a250c36a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.govparse.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.govparse.io/llms.txt)