the word doggy is actually correct to explain those recruiting agencies . i hear so many horror stories about people paying 20-30 k for a sponsor and than this sponsor go bancrupt . I am using the services of a recruitment agency and 13k is just par of the whole payment .I tried finding an immigrational lawyer , but they said i need to find an US employer and that is not so easy . With this agency i start the process with an US company who have past the prevailing wage determination and i got my PD without waiting for this. ( Actually for LC i waited for 9 months). i also tried to contact a dental technician laboratory in Chicago , so i can start the process on Eb3 skilled category, but i got no answer from this business.
at the moment the lower end of this service- agency+ sponsor+ lawyer is 17k (Rubby Law) and it get up to 32k (BVD)
about the h2b job offers- they are not many and it's not easy to be found. in the past there was no problem for me to get a job on h2b for a seasonal job in the fish processing industry in Alaska .from 2018 to 2023 that was my occupation , but last summer many people from eastern Europe who are regular employs didn't get job offers (political reasons, overfishing from previous seasons, cheeper flights for employs from Mexico and Latin America, fish processing companies pushing harder to hire local workers from USA , also they have a lot of ukrainian workers that stayed in US , etc...) .