# Changelog of H1B Visa Sponsor Lookup (US & UK Sponsor Licence, No Login) (`locaihost/visa-sponsors`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/locaihost/visa-sponsors/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/locaihost/visa-sponsors.md

## Changelog

All dates are UTC. Build numbers are the Apify build that shipped the change.

### 2026-10-18

- Store title, description, categories and README rewritten around the H1B sponsor lookup; the input form gets sections. Input fields and output unchanged.

### 2026-10-16 (0.2.8-0.2.10)

- When every job board is unreachable, a jobs-mode run ends with a clear message and charges nothing instead of failing.
- Runs fit their time and memory limits: a run whose timeout is too short says so and charges nothing, small-memory runs read fewer boards at once, and long lists stop cleanly with what was found.

### 2026-10-15 (0.2.3-0.2.7)

- UK sponsor matching is stricter and explains itself: new `ukMatchBasis` field (`exact`, `trading-name`, `brand-map`, `legal-suffix`, `unconfirmed`), trading names ("t/a") matched exactly, and more UK brands mapped to their legal entities. Existing fields unchanged.
- UK sole traders licensed under a personal name are left out of the register.

### 2026-10-14 (0.2.1-0.2.2)

- Wage-level mix (levels I to IV) with the median wage per level, for each employer and each top job title.
- Jobs mode: a 0-100 `sponsorScore` and a plain `evidence` sentence for every job, plus the `minSponsorScore` filter.
- Salary benchmark: `benchmarkTitles` input and a **Salary benchmark** view.
- `dataAsOf` and `ukRegisterDate` on every row. All earlier fields unchanged.

### 2026-10-13 (0.1.16)

- Maintenance build; output unchanged.

### 2026-10-12 (0.1.11-0.1.15)

- Big brands resolve to the legal entities they file under, per country (for example PwC, TCS and Barclays, including the UK licence that holds Barclays' Graduate Trainee route).

### 2026-10-11 (0.1.8-0.1.10)

- Price cut: $2.50 per 1,000 records.
- Stricter privacy filter: more employers that are private individuals are dropped from the index.

### 2026-10-10 (0.1.1-0.1.7)

- First release: one sponsorship profile per company from US Department of Labor H-1B, E-3 and PERM disclosure data (FY2024 to FY2026) and the UK register of licensed sponsors, plus jobs mode for live openings with sponsorship evidence.
- Household employers and job titles containing contact details removed from the index.