Nearly every application asks two questions together: are you legally authorized to work in this country, and will you now or in the future require sponsorship. They look like one question and they are not. The first is about today; the second is about any point in the future, including a visa transfer. Getting either wrong ends the process at the document check, so the honest answer is also the useful one.
Choose your country and status and the tool gives both answers plus a one-line explanation for any text box.
Legally authorized to work means you could start on Monday under your current status, whatever the route: citizenship, permanent residence, a valid work visa, or student work permission. It does not ask whether that status is permanent.
Require sponsorship, now or in the future, means the employer would at some point have to file something for you to keep working: a transfer of an employer-tied visa, a new visa when a student permission ends, or a first visa if you have none. Answer Yes if any of those apply, even if it is years away.
Citizen or permanent resident: Yes, No. Employer-tied work visa such as a US H-1B or UK Skilled Worker: Yes, Yes, because a new employer has to take over the sponsorship. Open work permit: Yes, No for its term, but say so in a text box if it expires soon. Student or graduate permission such as F-1 OPT, a UK Graduate visa or a Canadian PGWP: Yes, Yes. Applying from abroad with no visa: No, Yes.
Employers that do not sponsor filter on the sponsorship question and would withdraw an offer at the document stage anyway. Employers that do sponsor want to know early so they can plan. A false No wastes your interviews and theirs, and a discovered one is a withdrawn offer. The answer that gets you hired is the true one, given to employers who sponsor; the supported job sites and the visa-holders page on this site help you find them.
FastApply records your work authorization and sponsorship situation per country in your profile and answers both questions the same way on every application, so you never give inconsistent answers across hundreds of forms. If a form asks about a country you have not set up, it leaves the question for you rather than guessing.
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