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PERM sponsor, #47 of 70,985 by filings

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 468 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 19, 2026. Amazon Web Services, Inc. has 202 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 27% of its filings
Main worksite
Seattle, WA · 42% of its filings
Industry
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (Census group 45411) · NAICS 454111

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Filings

717

#47 of 70,985

Certified

702

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$143,700

offered, per year

Median days

383

83 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 531 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

202

of 531 tracked cases. The other 329 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 24, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 202 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
20099%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
21%

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 531 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 531, 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

  1. September 30 DOL certified 33 of its cases
  2. September 25 DOL certified 16 of its cases
  3. September 24 DOL certified 39 of its cases
  4. September 23 DOL certified 41 of its cases
  5. September 8 DOL certified 16 of its cases
  6. September 3 DOL certified 15 of its cases
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  1. August 29 DOL certified 44 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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Amazon Web Services, Inc.

    median of 281 decisions in the last 90 days

    292 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)
717 published
202 pending
$143,700 median, n=717
Prevailing wage requests
2,206 published
304 pending
$127,754 median, n=2,193
H-1B labor condition applications
23,735 published
79 pending
$145,550 median, n=23,726

Its median H-1B wage ($145,550 across 23,726 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($143,700 across 717 cases) are within 2% of each other.

Of its 202 pending PERM cases, 2 (1.0%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 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 5 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 Web Services, 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: 23,735 LCAs filed by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 23,273 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

48,685 positions for new employment, 20,075 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 48,685 · 44%
  • Change of employer 7e 20,075 · 18%
  • Continuing 7b 29,827 · 27%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1,059 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 9 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 12,003 · 11%

Shares of the 111,620 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 5,724 · 26%
  • Level II 10,172 · 45%
  • Level III 5,593 · 25%
  • Level IV 895 · 4%

Shares of the 22,384 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; 889 of 23,273 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 0 of 21,975 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 23,366. 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 23,358 · E-3 (Australia) 341 · H-1B1 (Chile) 10 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 26. 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

    100.0% of 702 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    468 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,997 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    6,022 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 27,002 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 58% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    34% of 6,548 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 51% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.6% of 6,643 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 51% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

383 daysahead of 96%

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 106 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 338 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
383 days

This one sits 79 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 47 of 70,985 by volume: 46 filed at least as many filings, and 70,938 filed no more.

Just above
Adobe Inc. 745 filings
Just below
GDI Services Inc. 643 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 · 193 filings, 27% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 513 of 717 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 · 424 filings

  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 518210, 51821273
  • All Other Miscellaneous Retailers 4599913
  • Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses 454117
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 305
  • Texas 88
  • Virginia 88
  • California 77
  • New York 44
  • Arizona 26
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 628 of 717 filings.

Where the work is

  • Seattle, WA 302
  • Dallas, TX 64
  • Herndon, VA 51
  • New York, NY 44
  • Arlington, VA 37
  • East Palo Alto, CA 33
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 531 of 717 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, and Loewy LLP 446 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Berry Appleman and Leiden, LLP 150 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. Farrell LLP 120 filings · 100.0% approved
  4. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 717 of 717 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    10 cases

  2. The New York Times

    5 cases

  3. The Dallas Morning News

    3 cases

  4. The Mercury News

    3 cases

  5. The Washington Post

    2 cases

  6. Houston Chronicle

    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. The employer's website

    24 cases

  2. Job search websites

    24 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    24 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    17%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    25%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    58%

  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

4,626 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 1,045.

  • 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 0 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 8 0 0
FY2015 29 0 3
FY2016 104 1 2
FY2017 107 1 1
FY2018 251 0 5
FY2019 260 0 2
FY2020 404 0 4
FY2021 736 1 10
FY2022 914 1 14
FY2023 959 3 83
FY2024 688 0 6
FY2025 0 0 0
FY2026 14 0 9

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 3,863. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22241-13228 2023-09-27 certified Support Engineer III-Ext, WA $121,000
A-22293-42816 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer II, NY $158,100
A-22291-41606 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer II, NY $158,100
A-22265-26155 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer III, WA $168,100
A-22242-13833 2023-09-27 certified Solutions Architect III, TN $145,900
A-22238-12427 2023-09-27 certified Solutions Architect II, AZ $131,300
A-22221-02342 2023-09-27 certified Principal, PMT - External Services, CA $208,300
A-22279-34397 2023-09-27 certified Technical Product Manager III - MBA, WA $203,341
The other 17
A-22214-98423 2023-09-26 certified Software Development Engineer II, AZ $143,700
A-22262-23683 2023-09-25 certified UX Designer II, WA $78,600
A-22263-24563 2023-09-25 certified Business Intelligence Engineer III, TX $130,400
A-22287-39950 2023-09-25 certified Cloud Support Engineer II, OR $145,600
A-22285-37784 2023-09-25 certified Enterprise Account Engineer III, TX $138,300
A-22266-27381 2023-09-22 certified Professional Services III, WA $112,000
A-22238-12541 2023-09-22 certified Customer Solutions Manager III, WA $119,475
A-22284-37012 2023-09-22 certified Solutions Architect II, VA $131,300
A-22285-37724 2023-09-22 certified IT Application Development Engineer II, TX $128,315
A-22276-32034 2023-09-22 certified Security Engineer II, WA $144,800
A-22264-25225 2023-09-22 certified Solutions Architect II, AZ $131,300
A-22299-45836 2023-09-21 certified Manager III, Software Dev, WA $184,900
A-22276-32166 2023-09-21 certified Program Manager III, WA $121,200
A-22238-12414 2023-09-21 certified Database Engineer III, IL $154,600
A-22259-22995 2023-09-21 certified Professional Services II, TN $114,213
A-22284-37013 2023-09-21 certified Solutions Architect II, VA $131,300
A-22297-44643 2023-09-21 certified Software Development Engineer II, WA $143,700

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 2,833
  • China 498
  • Canada 89
  • Brazil 46
  • Mexico 46
  • Nigeria 36

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,512
  • Bachelor's 1,197
  • None 99
  • Doctorate 43
  • Other 12

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,102
  • L-1 326
  • F-1 271
  • TN 86
  • E-3 21
  • H-4 14

Schools

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 126
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 107
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 80
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 63
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 54
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 51

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 889
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 480
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 266
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 212
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 123
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 110

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 #47 counts this page's cases only.

3,130 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, 193 of 717. 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 717 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 47. 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 702 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 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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