Updated
PERM sponsor, #61,766 of 70,985 by filings
ADTRAN, INC
Waiting on a case with ADTRAN, INC?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
1 decided filing: too few for an approval rate.
Why
Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.
Filings
1
#61,766 of 70,985
Certified
1
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 1 decided
Median wage
$128,937
offered, per year
Median days
332
middle of 1 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 1 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow ADTRAN, INC
An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-100-25268-334837 Hardware Engineer filed 2025-09-25 · CERTIFIED
Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.
Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 1 published
- 0 pending
- 1 wage, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 3 published
- 4 pending
- 3 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 38 published
- 0 pending
- $107,935 median, n=38
Every case across these programs is in the search.
How these are counted
Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by ADTRAN, INC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26211-135987 Services Statistical Analyst 2026-07-30 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26211-135783 Hardware Design Engineer Principal 2026-07-30 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26211-135667 Principal Lead Network Engineer 2026-07-30 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26211-135233 Technical Lead Network Engineer 2026-07-30 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26168-023875 Optical Network Engineer 2026-06-17 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26166-014150 Software Development Engineer $87,511.05 per year 2026-06-15 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26154-975530 Process & Applications Analyst, Finance and G&A $78,270 per year 2026-06-03 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26153-974180 Senior Software Development Engineer $101,000.12 per year 2026-06-02 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25230-248430 Software Development Engineer $125,540 per year 2025-08-18 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25218-225329 CRM Applications and Processes Analyst $85,000 per year 2025-08-06 · CERTIFIED
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 38 LCAs filed by ADTRAN, INC, 34 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
4 positions for new employment, 2 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 4 · 12%
- Change of employer 7e 2 · 6%
- Continuing 7b 16 · 47%
- Change in previous employment 7c 10 · 29%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 2 · 6%
Shares of the 34 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.
What each box on the form means
- New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
- Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
- Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
- Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
- Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
- Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.
Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.
Wage level it chose
- Level I 6 · 30%
- Level II 3 · 15%
- Level III 1 · 5%
- Level IV 10 · 50%
Shares of the 20 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 14 of 34 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.
What it declared on Section H
- H-1B-dependent
- No
- Found a willful violator
- No
As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 37 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 38. Both are the employer's own answers.
What the two answers mean
H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.
Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.
Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
6 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 61% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
332 daysmiddle of 1 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 1 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 363 days
- This one
- 332 days
This one sits 31 days ahead of them.
Why no approval rate
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 61,766 of 70,985 by volume: 61,765 filed at least as many filings, and 9,219 filed no more.
- Just above
- DINGYI NORTH AMERICA SEATTLE LLC 1 filings
- Just below
- ePace Technologies, Inc 1 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #61,765 DINGYI NORTH AMERICA SEATTLE LLC 1 filings · none denied
- #61,767 ePace Technologies, Inc 1 filings · none denied
- #61,764 FreshPlanet Inc. 1 filings · none denied
- #61,768 JACKSON FAMILY ENTERPRISES 1 filings · none denied
- #61,763 IEMENTOR CORP 1 filings · 1 denied
- #61,769 TRAVELCAMP, LLC 1 filings · 1 denied
History
Year by year since 2008
36 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2024, busiest in FY2011 with 10.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2010 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 13. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22021-01173 | 2022-10-04 | certified | CPQ Programmer Analyst (Advanced), AL | $121,306 |
| A-21089-68244 | 2021-08-24 | certified | Principal Software Engineer, AL | $132,606 |
| A-20226-88057 | 2021-03-30 | certified | Software Development Engineer, Advanced, OR | $126,150 |
| A-20086-35610 | 2020-08-27 | certified | Software Development Engineer (Developing), AL | $75,026 |
| A-19206-35443 | 2020-05-26 | certified | Principal Software Engineer, MA | $138,000 |
| A-18296-32515 | 2019-03-06 | certified | Programmer Analyst III (Career), AL | $74,880 |
| A-18290-30154 | 2019-01-28 | certified | Software Development Engineer (Developing), AL | $74,714 |
| A-18024-34996 | 2018-06-04 | certified | Product Support Engineer II (Developing), AL | $48,818 |
The other 5
| A-17101-23367 | 2017-06-20 | certified | Design Verification Test Engineer (Developing), AL | $70,000 |
| A-17060-08161 | 2017-06-05 | certified | Product Manager (Developing), AL | $73,112 |
| A-17072-12887 | 2017-06-05 | certified | Systems Design Engineer, AL | $95,352 |
| A-16326-73336 | 2017-02-06 | certified | Sales Engineer, Career, AL | $125,715 |
| A-16040-71027 | 2016-06-09 | certified | Design Engineer II, AL | $87,173 |
Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023
From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.
Country of citizenship
- India 7
- South Korea 2
- Argentina 1
- France 1
- Ghana 1
- Tanzania 1
Worker's education
- Master's 8
- Bachelor's 5
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 11
- E-2 1
- F-1 1
Schools
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY 2
- KYUNGIL UNIVERSITY 2
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE 2
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL & TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY 1
Fields of study
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 5
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
- ENGINEERING FOREIGN DEGREE EQUALS B.S. IN ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 2
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1
- COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1
- ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1
Notes on these numbers
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. 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 sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #61,766 counts this page's cases only.
- Adtran Networks North America, Inc. 1 filing
- Adtran Networks North America, Inc. f/k/a ADVA Optical Networking North America, 1 filing
2 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
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they 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.
- Volume doesn’t change the wait
- DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 1 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 61,766. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
- A median over 1 decided cases
- That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
- Two sources, and they do not add up
- The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 18, 2026 · daily
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.