Every page on H1BSignal now has a free AI chat button in the bottom corner. Click it, ask a question, and get an answer grounded in 551,000 real H1B filings. No account. No subscription. No hallucinations about companies that do not exist.
This is not a general-purpose chatbot. It is an H1B advisor built on the same data that powers the rest of the site.
What It Is
The "Ask H1BSignal" button appears on every page of the site. You can ask it anything H1B-related and it will pull live data to answer. There is no signup required. You get 30 free questions per day, and that count persists across page refreshes so you do not lose your session.
The assistant is powered by the full H1BSignal dataset: 551,000 LCA filings covering FY2020-2025, 445,000 prevailing wage rows from the 2026 Department of Labor OFLC dataset, 18,286 employer records, and 1,365 cap-exempt companies. When you ask about a company, it is reading the actual filings, not guessing.
Why It Is Different from ChatGPT
General AI models are trained on text scraped from the web. They know what people have written about H1B, but they do not have access to the underlying government data. Ask ChatGPT for the approval rate of a mid-size employer and you will get a confident answer that may have no connection to what USCIS and DOL actually recorded.
The H1BSignal AI pulls live data at query time. When you ask about a company, it runs a real lookup against 551K filings. When you ask about prevailing wages, it queries the 2026 DOL OFLC dataset with your specific job title and location. The answer changes when the data changes.
- 551K filings, FY2020-2025 — every LCA filing in the public DOL disclosure dataset for that period
- 445K prevailing wage rows — 2026 DOL OFLC Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data, searchable by SOC code and metro area
- 18,286 employer records — aggregated approval trends, wage level distributions, filing volumes
- 1,365 cap-exempt employers — universities, nonprofits, and government research organizations not subject to the annual cap
What It Can Answer
The assistant is built to handle the questions immigrants actually ask when navigating an H1B decision. A few examples of what it handles well:
- Approval and denial rates for specific employers, including trend data across fiscal years — the same data behind our company search
- Lottery odds by wage level under the FY2027 wage-weighted selection system
- RFE risk signals by company type and job title
- Whether a specific employer is cap-exempt and what that means for your timeline
- 60-day grace period rules after an employer withdrawal, and how USCIS has been adjudicating transfers
- Prevailing wage lookup by job title and location, to understand what wage level a given offer likely maps to
- Consulate wait time context for H1B stamp appointments by nationality and post
Live Data Tools Called in Real Time
The assistant does not just read static text. It calls twelve live data tools at query time, depending on what you ask. These tools query the H1BSignal database directly: employer filing history, wage level distributions, cap-exempt status lookups, prevailing wage calculations, lottery odds modeling, and more. Every answer that references a company or a wage number is backed by a real-time data pull, not a cached summary.
This means the assistant can compare two employers head-to-head, calculate your expected lottery odds based on your actual offered salary and location, or tell you whether your employer's RFE rate has been rising or falling over the past three fiscal years. That kind of analysis requires live data. It is not possible with a general-purpose AI.
What It Will Not Do
The assistant is clear about its limits. It does not give legal advice. It does not predict outcomes for your specific case. It does not recommend attorneys or law firms. It does not tell you what to do. It gives you data and context so you can make an informed decision, ideally alongside a qualified immigration attorney for anything consequential.
If you ask "will my H1B get approved," it will not give you a yes or no. It will tell you what the data shows for your employer, your job title category, and the current policy environment. That is the honest answer. Anyone who gives you a guaranteed prediction on an H1B outcome is not being straight with you.
How to Use It
Click the "Ask H1BSignal" button in the bottom-right corner of any page. The chat opens immediately, no login required. You have 30 free questions per day. That count resets at midnight and persists across browser refreshes within the same session.
The most useful questions are specific: "What is the H1B approval rate for Infosys in FY2024?" or "What wage level does a $130,000 software engineer salary qualify for in Seattle?" or "Is Stanford University cap-exempt?" Vague questions get less precise answers because the data tools work best with specific inputs.
Built for Immigrants Making Real Decisions
The people using this tool are weighing job offers, evaluating transfer risk, deciding whether to accept a cap-subject role versus a cap-exempt one, or trying to understand what their lottery odds actually look like after the wage-weighted system changed the math. These are not casual curiosity questions. They are the most consequential career decisions many people will ever make.
The H1BSignal AI was built for that context. Every feature is designed around one question: what would actually help someone feel less anxious about their H1B situation? Real data, direct answers, no paywall, no sales funnel. Just the signal.
Ready to try it? Open the AI chat directly, or explore our H1B research library for data-driven articles on approval rates, RFE trends, and lottery odds.