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PERM sponsor, #402 of 70,985 by filings

Align Technology, Inc.

Align Technology, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 15 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 7, 2026. Align Technology, Inc. has 7 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 34% of its filings
Main worksite
Morrisville, NC · 55% of its filings
Industry
Dental Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing · NAICS 339114

Waiting on a case with Align Technology, Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 85 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 6.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

91

#402 of 70,985

Certified

84

1 denied

Approval

98.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$156,000

offered, per year

Median days

466

at the field median

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 109 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

7

of 109 tracked cases. The other 102 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 21, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 7 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
7100%

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 109 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 109, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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. Align Technology, Inc.

    median of 6 decisions in the last 90 days

    303 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,289 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 80,222 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)
91 published
7 pending
$156,000 median, n=91
Prevailing wage requests
131 published
4 pending
$132,080 median, n=119
H-1B labor condition applications
387 published
1 pending
$149,726 median, n=387

Its median H-1B wage is $149,726 across 387 LCAs, 4.0% lower than its median PERM wage of $156,000 across 91 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, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; 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 Align Technology, 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: 387 LCAs filed by Align Technology, Inc., 383 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

109 positions for new employment, 92 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 109 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 92 · 24%
  • Continuing 7b 126 · 33%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 15 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 41 · 11%

Shares of the 383 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 13 · 5%
  • Level II 62 · 25%
  • Level III 104 · 42%
  • Level IV 69 · 28%

Shares of the 248 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; 135 of 383 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 5, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 357 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 381. 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

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 381 · E-3 (Australia) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 2. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

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 approval rate

    98.8% of 85 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 25% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    15 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 94% of the 13,997 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    115 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 97% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 133 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 48% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    73% of 95 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 87% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    95.3% of 127 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 16% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.8%ahead of 25%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

466 daysahead of 48%

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. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 80 and 107 filings.

Their median wait
470 days
This one
466 days

This one sits 4 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 402 of 70,985 by volume: 401 filed at least as many filings, and 70,583 filed no more.

Just above
Zscaler, Inc. 91 filings
Just below
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation 91 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 Software Developers, 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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 31 filings, 34% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 67 of 91 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

Dental Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

NAICS 339114 · 83 filings

  • Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing 339118
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

  • North Carolina 50
  • California 38
  • Arizona 3
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 91 of 91 filings.

Where the work is

  • Morrisville, NC 50
  • San Jose, CA 38
  • Tempe, AZ 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 91 of 91 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Naya Law Group PC (dba Finnan, Fleischut & Assoc.) 59 filings · 98.1% approved
  2. Naya Law Group, PC 25 filings
  3. Naya Law Group PC dba Finnan, Fleischut Associates 7 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 91 of 91 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The News & Observer

    46 cases

  2. The Mercury News- Bay Area News Grp

    33 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    3 cases

  4. The Mercury News

    2 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

    84 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    84 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    84 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

    12%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    40%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    23%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    25%

  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 2009

202 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 48.

  • 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
FY2009 0 0 1
FY2010 13 0 0
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 6 0 0
FY2013 2 0 0
FY2014 8 0 0
FY2015 5 0 0
FY2016 5 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 19 0 0
FY2019 13 1 0
FY2020 10 0 0
FY2021 10 0 0
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 3 0 3
FY2024 8 0 2
FY2025 43 1 4
FY2026 33 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 73. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22297-44508 2023-09-21 certified Senior iOS Developer, NC $141,003
A-22307-51374 2023-05-23 withdrawn Software Development Engineer in Test, CA $143,069
A-23027-94045 2023-02-14 withdrawn Manager, Global Invisalign Experience, CA $202,103
A-22091-34491 2022-12-20 withdrawn R&D Engineer III, Simulation, CA $110,000
A-21313-70553 2022-11-03 certified 3D Software Research Engineer, CA $130,000
A-21313-70595 2022-10-06 certified R&D Engineer III, Emerging Technology, CA $148,000
A-21105-74668 2021-12-13 certified Senior Analyst, SAP OTC, CA $145,000
A-20311-18130 2021-11-03 certified Sr. SFDC Software Engineer, NC $126,030
The other 17
A-21022-44892 2021-10-07 certified Technical Manager, Professional Web and Mobile Applications, CA $138,800
A-20319-21221 2021-05-25 certified Sr. Financial Analyst, CA $139,050
A-20241-93419 2021-05-20 certified Sr. C++ Software Engineer, CA $166,000
A-20126-50789 2021-05-18 certified Sr. Systems Integration Automation Engineer, CA $126,500
A-20241-93443 2021-05-12 certified Regulatory Engineering Manager, CA $125,000
A-20126-50796 2021-03-17 certified Sr. Software Developer, Java Applications, CA $154,670
A-20157-62537 2021-02-22 certified Integration Application Engineer, NC $98,500
A-20126-50794 2021-02-04 certified IT Product Analyst, CA $139,249
A-20127-51204 2021-01-29 certified Manager, Mobile Applications, NC $138,330
A-20127-51118 2021-01-29 certified IAM and Integration Application Manager, NC $130,000
A-20106-43480 2021-01-29 certified Sr. Systems Integration Automation Engineer, CA $126,500
A-20057-23629 2020-06-29 certified Sr. Salesforce Analyst, NC $110,500
A-20027-11950 2020-06-08 certified Sr. 3D Research Engineer, CA $154,670
A-20027-11921 2020-05-26 certified Machine Learning Research Scientist, NC $100,000
A-20014-06616 2020-05-21 certified iOS Developer, Mobile Solutions, NC $98,450
A-19353-98079 2020-05-01 certified SQA Engineer, NC $90,000
A-19312-80950 2020-04-06 certified Integration Application Engineer, NC $98,450

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 45
  • Russia 18
  • Canada 3
  • China 3
  • Kazakhstan 1
  • Mexico 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 39
  • Bachelor's 29
  • Doctorate 3
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 54
  • L-1 17
  • H-4 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY 5
  • BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 4
  • ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 3
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 3
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 3
  • RUSSIAN STATE SOCIAL UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 8
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 6
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5
  • APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE 4
  • APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS 3
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 3

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 entry 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 #402 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

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 31 of 91. 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 91 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 402. 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 85 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 NC. 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 21, 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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