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PERM sponsor, #2,220 of 70,985 by filings

Advantest America Inc.

Advantest America Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 11 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 18, 2026. Advantest America Inc. has 5 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer · 25% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 70% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing · NAICS 3344

Waiting on a case with Advantest America Inc.?

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Too few cases for a rate

19 decided filings: 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

20

#2,220 of 70,985

Certified

19

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 19 decided

Median wage

$135,000

offered, per year

Median days

442

24 faster than the field

Right now

DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.

In the queue right now 29 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

5

of 29 tracked cases. The other 24 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 24, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 5 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5100%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.

From DOL's live status of 29 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 29, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

The 8 newest. 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

  1. Advantest America Inc.

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,912 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 80,461 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
20 published
5 pending
$135,000 median, n=20
Prevailing wage requests
37 published
2 pending
$140,088 median, n=37
H-1B labor condition applications
175 published
0 pending
$117,000 median, n=174

Its median H-1B wage is $117,000 across 174 LCAs, 13.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $135,000 across 20 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.

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 Advantest America Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

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: 175 LCAs filed by Advantest America Inc., 172 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

245 positions for new employment, 191 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 245 · 24%
  • Change of employer 7e 191 · 19%
  • Continuing 7b 215 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 177 · 18%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 183 · 18%

Shares of the 1,011 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 32 · 28%
  • Level II 35 · 31%
  • Level III 22 · 19%
  • Level IV 25 · 22%

Shares of the 114 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; 58 of 172 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 May 29, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 170 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 175. 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    11 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 91% of the 13,990 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    44 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 92% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    8.5% of 47 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 32% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    43% of 37 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 59% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

  • USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years

    95.8% of 48 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 19% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

442 daysmiddle of 19 decided, too few to rank

5d 1152d
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. Sponsors with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. This sponsor has 19 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 20 and 21 filings.

Their median wait
460 days
This one
442 days

This one sits 18 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 2,220 of 70,985 by volume: 2,219 filed at least as many filings, and 68,765 filed no more.

Just above
Texas Mobile PCS, LLC 20 filings
Just below
Pluto, Inc. 20 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

Sponsors hiring for the same work

The employers filing the most PERM cases for Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, the occupation this sponsor files for most.

What they file, and where

A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.

What the jobs are

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

SOC 17-2072.00 · 5 filings, 25% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 17 of 20 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.

The industry they declared

Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

NAICS 3344 · 20 filings

How this is counted

The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.

Where the jobs are

  • California 17
  • Texas 2
  • Arizona 1
How this is counted

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 3 states cover 20 of 20 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 14
  • Austin, TX 2
  • San Diego, CA 2
  • Lake Forest, CA 1
  • Phoenix, AZ 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 20 of 20 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 20 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 20 of 20 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    13 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    2 cases

  3. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    2 cases

  4. The Orange County Register

    1 cases
How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

  1. Job search websites

    18 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    18 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    18 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    17%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    33%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    39%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

History

Year by year since 2008

94 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 18.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2026 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2008 1 0 0
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 2 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 4 0 1
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 3 0 0
FY2015 6 0 0
FY2016 9 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 17 0 1
FY2019 3 0 0
FY2020 3 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 14 0 1
FY2024 2 0 0
FY2025 8 0 0
FY2026 9 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 54. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22250-17556 2023-09-25 certified Senior Application Engineer, CA $142,482
A-22209-96189 2023-07-12 certified Application Engineer Associate, CA $107,557
A-22214-98440 2023-06-12 certified Application Engineer, CA $171,350
A-22119-47933 2023-02-09 certified Test Strategy Consultant, CA $133,327
A-22119-47897 2023-02-09 certified Application Engineer Associate, CA $107,337
A-22122-48719 2023-02-06 certified Application Engineer Senior, CA $133,018
A-22084-30602 2023-01-31 certified Intermediate Mechanical Design Engineer, CA $83,210
A-22067-20513 2023-01-20 certified Intermediate Mechanical Design Engineer, AZ $84,906
The other 17
A-22125-50660 2023-01-20 certified R&D Engineer - Developing, CA $106,377
A-21350-87160 2022-12-06 certified Application Engineer, CA $101,774
A-21336-80226 2022-12-06 certified Application Engineer, CA $172,245
A-22039-09185 2022-12-02 certified Application Engineer, CA $124,176
A-22040-09197 2022-12-02 certified Application Engineer - Expert, TX $138,888
A-21356-89813 2022-10-27 certified Application Engineer - Developing, CA $110,733
A-22209-96098 2022-10-04 withdrawn Senior Application Engineer, CA $160,201
A-20037-16057 2021-06-29 certified Application Engineer, CA $166,026
A-20262-01180 2021-05-06 certified Sales Engineer, CA $149,804
A-20098-39962 2021-02-04 certified Senior Application Engineer, CA $124,225
A-19219-41445 2019-11-06 certified Application Engineer Expert, CA $155,000
A-19219-41223 2019-11-06 certified Application Engineer Senior, TX $104,790
A-19219-41366 2019-11-04 certified Application Engineer Senior, CA $119,780
A-18218-04895 2019-03-01 certified Software Engineering Manager, CA $168,210
A-18295-32052 2019-02-04 certified Application Engineer, CA $99,154
A-18120-69606 2018-11-14 certified R&D Engineer Developing, CA $100,485
A-18170-88395 2018-08-16 certified Application Engineer Expert, CA $118,992

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

  • China 18
  • India 18
  • Japan 5
  • Canada 2
  • Germany 2
  • Rwanda 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 31
  • Bachelor's 21
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 29
  • L-1 21
  • F-1 2
  • TN 1
  • VWB 1

Schools

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 4
  • SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY 3
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE 2
  • OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY 2
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON 2
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 2

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 15
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 3
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING (US EDGE EQUIVALENT) 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 5 of 20. 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 20 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 2,220. 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 19 decided cases
The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
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. The worksite on most of these is CA. 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 20, 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.

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