Nurse practitioner visa sponsorship

Yes. From 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, the US Labor Department certified 45 H-1B applications for nurse practitioners from 41 employers. On this board tonight, 16 open NPs & PAs jobs say in their own posting that they sponsor a visa.

By certified applications in that period: Bluewater Emergency Partners, LLC (2), Suburban Medical And Wellness Center (2) and University of Florida (2). 41 employers filed at least one; the full list has the 25 that filed the most.

The Labor Department certified no PERM green card applications for nurse practitioners in that period.

The median of the lowest hourly rate each H-1B application offered was $67.54 an hour. BLS measured a US median of $63.61 an hour for nurse practitioners (their pay). An H-1B employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the job and the place, so a sponsored worker is paid like anyone in the same job.

H-1B worksites, most applications first: New York, California, Florida, Massachusetts and Illinois.

Yes, when a US employer files for it; the worker cannot apply for the visa alone. For nurse practitioners the usual route is the H-1B, a temporary work visa for jobs that need at least a bachelor's degree: 41 employers had 45 applications certified from 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026 (the list). Most open jobs, on this board and elsewhere, hire people already allowed to work in the US, and a job that sponsors says so in its posting. Write to the sponsoring employers above directly, and never pay anyone a fee for a job offer or a visa: honest employers do not ask for one (FTC: job scams).

From the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's disclosure files for 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, published 2026-08-07. Only applications the Labor Department certified are counted, each read as an occupation by its own job title. A certified application is not yet a visa: USCIS decides the petition after it. CareJobs.Now rebuilds these figures each quarter the files are published.