All firms · #11 of 5,678 by volume
Tafapolsky & Smith LLP
3,725 PERM cases in DOL's current disclosure window, 3,394 certified and 13 denied. Filed from California. Firm name as filed.
Cases
3,725
#11 of 5,678
Certified
3,394
13 denied
Approval
99.6%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
457
12 faster than the field
Approval rate
99.6%ahead of 68%
Median days to decision
457 daysahead of 69%
The practice, in their own filings
Who they file for, what the jobs are, and where the work sits. All of it is the employer, occupation and worksite named on their own applications.
Who they file for
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 1,401 filings · 99.8% approved
- Applied Materials, Inc 530 filings · 99.8% approved
- Lucid USA, Inc. 424 filings · 99.5% approved
- SYNOPSYS, INC. 335 filings · 99.1% approved
- Docusign Inc. 169 filings · 99.3% approved
- Splunk, Inc. 166 filings · 99.4% approved
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 3,025 of 3,725 filings, 81% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 15-1252.00 · 1,133 filings, 30% of everything they file · 99.4% approved
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.00223
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 17-2072.00192
- Project Management Specialists 13-1082.00190
- Sales Engineers 41-9031.00107
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.0094
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 1,939 of 3,725 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
Where the jobs are
- California 1,717
- Washington 1,240
- Texas 271
- Arizona 91
- Oregon 62
- North Carolina 59
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 3,440 of 3,725 filings.
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 70 firms ranked nearest this one filed between 588 and 48,322 cases. Their median wait is 467 days, and this one sits 10 days ahead of that. No approval rate is given for the band. A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 11 of 5,678 by volume: 10 filed at least as many cases, and 5,667 filed no more.
- Just above
- EY Law LLP 3,815 cases
- Just below
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP 3,590 cases
Other California firms at this volume
Practices filing from California at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. State is the address on the filing, so a national firm appears under whichever office signed the form.
- #13 · CA American International & Immigration Law, PC 2,972 cases · 260 denied
- #15 · CA Law Office of Nhu Muon 2,344 cases · 51 denied
- #6 · CA Vialto Partners LLP 5,770 cases · 104 denied
- #16 · CA Jackson Lewis P.C. 2,273 cases · 47 denied
- #26 · CA Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP 1,456 cases · 8 denied
- #35 · CA Global Immigration Partners, Inc. 1,110 cases · 12 denied
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one firm can appear under several. 3 other spellings of this name were folded into this page and their cases are counted here. The 2 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same firm; some are a different one. Rank #11 counts this page's cases only.
3 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.
What these numbers don't say
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles their clients file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Nothing here is waiting
- Every row in DOL's disclosure files carries a decision date, so a case still in the queue is in none of these counts. The live tracker that does see pending cases records the employer on each one and not the firm, so a firm's current queue cannot be broken out at all. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
- The approval rate barely separates firms
- Across every firm with enough decided cases to carry a rate the median is above 99%, and hundreds have no denials at all. Placing near the top of that axis mostly means being level with the rest of it.
- None of this measures the advice
- It measures filings that DOL approved or denied. Whether the case was worth filing, what it cost, and how the firm handled an audit aren’t in these files.
- A median over 3,407 decided cases
- DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so this says when the firm's cases were filed at least as much as anything about the firm. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover
DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.
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Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest