How we verify, and what we won't claim.
Every record carries one of three levels. The level says how confidently the record's status is known, where that came from, and when it was last checked. The word “verified” is reserved for the first level and is never used for a database total.
The licence number is confirmed against the issuing regulator's own published register.
Today this is USCIS's published EB-5 Regional Center list — a US government publication we can read, cite and re-check on a schedule.
The firm publishes a licence number on its own website. We have recorded it and linked to where it appeared, but we have not confirmed it against the regulator.
Most of these are Canadian RCIC and RISIA numbers. They stay at this level until CICC's register clears the consent request that currently blocks it — see below.
Confirmed to be a real, operating business from its own published information. No licence information is available for it, in either direction.
This is not a judgement that the firm is unlicensed. It means we have not found licence information, and we would rather say that than imply either answer.
Why we have no reason to overstate.
A commission marketplace is paid when a placement happens, so its incentive is to make every partner look good enough to contact. RecruitEarth is paid a flat subscription by schools and takes nothing from agents — no commission, no listing fee, no paid placement. Nothing about how we describe a firm changes what we earn.
That is the whole reason the levels can be honest. A directory that profits from introductions cannot afford to tell you that two thirds of its records have no confirmed licence. We can, because the number is the product.
What is still pending.
Four government registers would move large numbers of records from self-declared to register-verified. We are not publishing any of them yet, because each is pending a permission we have asked for and not yet received: Canada (CICC), Australia (OMARA), the United Kingdom (IAA) and New Zealand (IAA).
CICC's terms prohibit automated collection and commercial use without written consent; the other three sit behind freedom-of-information and official-information requests. We would rather show you a smaller confirmed set than a larger one we did not have the right to publish.
Every record shows its own level, its source, and when it was last checked.
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