Why Workmerica?
Because a job in the United States should not cost you a year of savings, and being found should not depend on who you happen to know.
The problem is not that America has no work.
Employers across the United States are short of welders, drivers, carers, nurses and builders, and say so publicly every year. The work exists. What stands between it and the people who can do it is the way workers are found: through agencies, through fees, and through people who know people.
Agencies charge workers. We never do.
Migrant workers routinely pay recruitment fees to get a job abroad - upfront payments, deductions from wages, charges for documents that should cost nothing. The International Labour Organization's own fair recruitment principle is that the worker should pay no fees at all, and it exists because so many do. Workmerica charges workers nothing, for anything, ever. Employers pay to search the register. That is the whole business.
One profile, every state in the country.
Instead of applying to hundreds of advertisements, you write one profile. It sits in a register built for the employers who hire from abroad: meat plants in Nebraska, farms in Georgia, care homes in Ohio, construction across Texas.
Your details stay yours.
Your phone number and email are not published. An employer sees your trade, your experience and where you want to work, and can ask to be introduced. You can edit your profile, export everything you have given us in one click, or delete it entirely, the same day, without asking anybody.
Fair by design, not by promise.
Every profile appears in employer searches on the same terms. There is no paid placement and no hidden ranking: a welder from Georgia and a nurse from the Philippines are ordered by how well they match the search, not by what anyone paid. The figures in your dashboard are counted from real employer activity and are never rounded up.
We will not promise you a job.
No register can. What we can do is put you in front of the people who are hiring, tell you honestly what a work permit actually involves in the country you are asking about, and warn you about the scams that follow this industry everywhere. If a site promises you a visa or a guaranteed job in exchange for money, that is the sign to walk away.
What changes
| Through an agency | Through Workmerica | |
|---|---|---|
| What the worker pays | Fees, deductions, 'processing costs' | Nothing, ever |
| Who holds your documents | Often the agency | You |
| Who the employer talks to | The agency | You |
| What happens if you say no | You may lose what you paid | Nothing. You choose who to answer |
| Leaving | Contracts, notice, lost fees | Delete your profile, same day |
What is actually in the register
Counted from active profiles at the moment you loaded this page, not estimated and not rounded.
How to tell a real offer from a scam
- Nobody legitimate asks you to pay for a job offer, a visa, or a place on a list.
- A real employer can name the company, the town and the job. A scammer talks only about money and speed.
- A work permit is issued by a government, never by an agent. You can check the rules yourself on the country's own website.
- If you are asked to send documents or money through a personal account or a messaging app, stop.
Where to check this yourself
We would rather you did not take our word for any of it. These are the primary sources, not ours.
- U.S. Department of Labor: foreign labor certificationThe official programmes under which a U.S. employer may hire from abroad, and what each requires of them.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: job openingsThe official count of open jobs in the United States, by industry, updated monthly.
- International Labour Organization: fair recruitmentThe principle that workers should never pay recruitment fees, and what employers are asked to do instead.
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: working in the U.S.Visa categories and the rules for each, from the agency that issues them.