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PERM sponsor, #11 of 70,985 by filings

Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon.com Services LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 1,274 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. Amazon.com Services LLC has 678 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers, Systems Software · 27% of its filings
Main worksite
Seattle, WA · 48% of its filings
Industry
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (Census group 45411) · NAICS 454111

Waiting on a case with Amazon.com Services LLC?

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Filings

2,271

#11 of 70,985

Certified

2,186

8 denied

Approval

99.6%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$143,700

offered, per year

Median days

357

109 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 1,442 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

678

of 1,442 tracked cases. The other 764 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 11, 2025, 15 months ago.

Where those 678 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
677100%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
1<1%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 1,442 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,442, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 17, 2026

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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

  1. October 10 DOL certified 40 of its cases
  2. October 9 DOL certified 101 of its cases
  3. October 8 DOL certified 40 of its cases
  4. October 7 DOL certified 43 of its cases

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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.

Layoff notices filed by Amazon.com Services LLC

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • August 31, 2026, layoff, permanent, 121 employees, Seattle, Bellevue, Sumner, effective October 1, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • July 2, 2026, layoff, permanent, 57 employees, Seattle, Bellevue, effective August 3, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • January 30, 2026, layoff, permanent, 2,198 employees, Various locations in Washington, effective April 28, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • January 28, 2026, layoff, permanent, 135 employees, New York, effective April 28, 2026. New York WARN report 1440 Broadway, New York City, NY, 10018
  • January 28, 2026, closure, permanent, 401 employees, Various locations in Washington, effective April 28, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • December 13, 2025, layoff, permanent, 84 employees, Seattle & Bellevue, effective February 2, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • October 28, 2025, layoff, permanent, 2,303 employees, Various locations in Washington, effective January 26, 2026. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Amazon.com Services LLC

    median of 520 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,613 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 80,747 cases, and would be decided around March 14, 2027 (between February 22, 2027 and April 23, 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)
2,271 published
678 pending
$143,700 median, n=2,271
Prevailing wage requests
6,499 published
1,018 pending
$121,222 median, n=6,456
H-1B labor condition applications
94,258 published
494 pending
$146,100 median, n=94,226

Its median H-1B wage ($146,100 across 94,226 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($143,700 across 2,271 cases) are within 2% of each other.

Of its 678 pending PERM cases, 1 (0.1%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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 7 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 Amazon.com Services LLC, 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: 94,258 LCAs filed by Amazon.com Services LLC, 93,083 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

203,533 positions for new employment, 59,642 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 203,533 · 47%
  • Change of employer 7e 59,642 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 101,680 · 23%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 21,999 · 5%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 21 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 47,778 · 11%

Shares of the 434,543 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 19,041 · 22%
  • Level II 43,647 · 50%
  • Level III 19,853 · 23%
  • Level IV 4,159 · 5%

Shares of the 86,700 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; 6,383 of 93,083 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 2 of 87,977 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 92,293. 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 92,241 · E-3 (Australia) 1,275 · H-1B1 (Chile) 340 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 402. 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

    99.6% of 2,194 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 31% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    1,274 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    28,714 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 110,738 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 50% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    32% of 28,443 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 50% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.6% of 33,663 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 50% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

99.6%ahead of 31%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

357 daysahead of 99%

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 70 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 487 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
357 days

This one sits 107 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 11 of 70,985 by volume: 10 filed at least as many filings, and 70,974 filed no more.

Just above
Oracle America, Inc. 2,299 filings
Just below
WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. 2,012 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, Systems Software, 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, Systems Software

SOC 15-1133 · 623 filings, 27% of everything they file · 99.4% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 1,587 of 2,271 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

Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (Census group 45411)

NAICS 454111 · 1,691 filings

  • Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 45411, 454110474
  • All Other Miscellaneous Retailers 45999100
  • All Other General Merchandise Retailers 4552192
  • Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) 445111
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

  • Washington 1,114
  • California 467
  • New York 179
  • Texas 162
  • Virginia 99
  • Massachusetts 81
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 6 states cover 2,102 of 2,271 filings.

Where the work is

  • Seattle, WA 1,082
  • Sunnyvale, CA 255
  • New York, NY 176
  • Austin, TX 128
  • Arlington, VA 94
  • Nashville, TN 55
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,790 of 2,271 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, and Loewy LLP 1,149 filings · 99.5% approved
  2. Berry Appleman and Leiden LLP 627 filings · 99.8% approved
  3. Farrell LLP 482 filings · 99.8% approved
  4. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 7 filings
  5. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, andLoewy LLP 3 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 2,268 of 2,271 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    31 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    29 cases

  3. Austin American-Statesman

    12 cases

  4. The Washington Post

    12 cases

  5. The Tennessean

    8 cases

  6. The Arizona Republic

    5 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. The employer's website

    119 cases

  2. Job search websites

    119 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    119 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

    1.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    3.3%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    4.2%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    90%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.8%
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 2018

23,502 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 4,921.

  • 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
FY2018 885 0 40
FY2019 2,918 6 32
FY2020 2,864 3 19
FY2021 4,639 2 34
FY2022 4,834 14 73
FY2023 4,616 9 243
FY2024 2,129 8 14
FY2025 1 0 11
FY2026 56 0 52

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 21,231. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-23020-89810 2023-09-29 withdrawn Business Intelligence Engineer III, WA $158,371
A-22249-16875 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer III, WA $154,600
A-22249-16859 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer III, WA $154,600
A-22249-16847 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer III, WA $154,600
A-22263-24325 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
A-22262-23541 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
A-22245-15910 2023-09-29 certified Business Intelligence Engineer III, NY $143,400
A-22230-07941 2023-09-29 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
The other 17
A-22250-17554 2023-09-29 certified Applied Scientist II, WA $142,800
A-22216-00227 2023-09-29 certified Software Development Engineer II, WA $143,700
A-22215-99140 2023-09-29 certified Software Development Engineer II, WA $143,700
A-22206-93789 2023-09-29 certified Software Development Manager, WA $158,100
A-22271-29388 2023-09-29 certified Product Manager, WA $96,554
A-22206-93881 2023-09-28 certified Hardware Development Engineer II, CA $179,566
A-22275-31960 2023-09-28 certified Data Scientist III, WA $159,200
A-22273-31852 2023-09-28 certified Data Scientist III, WA $159,200
A-22248-16786 2023-09-28 certified Data Engineer III, WA $154,600
A-22236-10997 2023-09-28 certified Business Intelligence Engineer II, WA $99,500
A-22228-06272 2023-09-28 certified Applied Scientist II, WA $142,800
A-22272-30254 2023-09-28 certified Quality Assurance Engineer II, WA $113,900
A-22266-26970 2023-09-28 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
A-22264-25280 2023-09-28 certified Data Engineer III, WA $154,600
A-22264-25260 2023-09-28 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
A-22263-24642 2023-09-28 certified Data Engineer II, WA $132,100
A-22263-24500 2023-09-28 certified Software Development Engineer III, TX $168,100

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 12,246
  • China 5,633
  • Canada 823
  • Taiwan 245
  • Mexico 244
  • Australia 181

Worker's education

  • Master's 15,162
  • Bachelor's 5,058
  • Doctorate 742
  • None 248
  • Other 21

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 14,921
  • L-1 2,646
  • F-1 2,485
  • TN 655
  • E-3 156
  • O-1 79

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 994
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 567
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 529
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 496
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 417
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 357

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 6,393
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2,655
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1,278
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 991
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 631
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 546

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 13 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 #11 counts this page's cases only.

1,576 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, Systems Software, 623 of 2,271. 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 2,271 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 11. 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 2,194 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 WA. 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 the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 17, 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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