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PERM sponsor, #1,151 of 70,985 by filings

Ambarella Corp.

Ambarella Corp. sponsors green cards: it filed 4 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on February 20, 2026. Ambarella Corp. has 2 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 47% of its filings
Main worksite
Santa Clara, CA · 94% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing · NAICS 334413

Waiting on a case with Ambarella Corp.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 32 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 10.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

36

#1,151 of 70,985

Certified

32

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$151,091

offered, per year

Median days

431

35 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 44 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

2

of 44 tracked cases. The other 42 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 20, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 2 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
2100%

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 44 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 44, 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

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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. Every employer

    median of 30,289 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 2 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 80,222 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)
36 published
2 pending
$151,091 median, n=36
Prevailing wage requests
25 published
5 pending
$151,091 median, n=25
H-1B labor condition applications
165 published
1 pending
$145,725 median, n=163

Its median H-1B wage is $145,725 across 163 LCAs, 3.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $151,091 across 36 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 Ambarella Corp., 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: 165 LCAs filed by Ambarella Corp., 161 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

80 positions for new employment, 16 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 80 · 47%
  • Change of employer 7e 16 · 9%
  • Continuing 7b 69 · 41%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 4 · 2%

Shares of the 170 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 10 · 7%
  • Level II 85 · 57%
  • Level III 42 · 28%
  • Level IV 12 · 8%

Shares of the 149 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; 12 of 161 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 4, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 145 of 145 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 163. 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 163 · 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

    100.0% of 32 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    4 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 75% of the 13,997 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 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    11% of 44 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 41% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    29% of 38 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 47% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    95.0% of 60 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 13% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-11).
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

431 daysahead of 77%

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 34 and 38 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
431 days

This one sits 37 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 1,151 of 70,985 by volume: 1,150 filed at least as many filings, and 69,834 filed no more.

Just above
OSF Healthcare System 36 filings
Just below
PayPal Data Services, Inc. 36 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 · 17 filings, 47% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 32 of 36 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 Related Device Manufacturing

NAICS 334413 · 36 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 34
  • Ohio 2
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 2 states cover 36 of 36 filings.

Where the work is

  • Santa Clara, CA 34
  • Beavercreek, OH 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 36 of 36 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP 36 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 36 of 36 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    29 cases

  2. Dayton Daily News

    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

    30 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    30 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    19 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    11 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

    37%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    53%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    3.3%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    6.7%

  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 2011

123 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 17.

  • 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
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 6 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 9 0 0
FY2017 10 0 0
FY2018 5 3 0
FY2019 11 0 0
FY2020 10 2 0
FY2021 15 0 0
FY2022 6 0 0
FY2023 4 0 0
FY2024 6 0 1
FY2025 17 0 0
FY2026 9 0 3

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 75. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22200-91041 2023-05-11 certified Software Architecture Engineer II, CA $104,291
A-22150-63088 2023-04-20 certified Sr. Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22150-63077 2023-04-20 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22068-21655 2023-01-10 certified Sr. Verification Engineer, CA $124,176
A-22003-93022 2022-09-22 certified Algorithm Engineer, CA $130,894
A-21266-49133 2022-04-27 certified Senior Algorithm Engineer, CA $145,725
A-21253-42802 2022-03-16 certified Software Engineer II, CA $120,578
A-21144-91192 2021-11-16 certified Software Engineer II, CA $120,578
The other 17
A-21144-91129 2021-11-16 certified Software Architecture Engineer II, CA $120,578
A-21144-91044 2021-11-16 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $145,725
A-21073-61899 2021-08-26 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,578
A-21070-61263 2021-08-26 certified ASIC Design Engineer, CA $113,589
A-21070-61256 2021-08-26 certified Verification Engineer II, CA $117,291
A-21005-39120 2021-07-15 certified Sr. DFT & Design Engineer, CA $117,291
A-20302-14035 2021-06-10 certified ASIC Design Engineer, CA $117,291
A-20279-07190 2021-06-10 certified Sr. ASIC Design Engineer, CA $117,291
A-20268-03738 2021-05-26 certified Sr. System Software Engineer, CA $157,539
A-20210-81915 2021-04-29 certified Algorithm Engineer, CA $122,408
A-20209-81470 2021-04-29 certified Staff Verification Engineer, CA $157,539
A-20171-67684 2021-03-26 certified Hardware Engineer II, CA $134,597
A-20169-66516 2021-03-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $97,302
A-20125-49830 2020-12-04 certified Algorithm Engineer, CA $122,408
A-20122-49714 2020-12-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $122,408
A-20117-47239 2020-12-02 certified Algorithm Engineer, CA $122,408
A-20114-46464 2020-10-09 certified Senior Software Architecture Engineer, CA $122,408

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 41
  • India 18
  • Taiwan 14
  • Canada 1
  • Israel 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 70
  • Bachelor's 3
  • Doctorate 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 62
  • F-1 6
  • L-1 5
  • J-1 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 6
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 6
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 4
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY 4
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 4
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 36
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 16
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 6
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 5
  • APPLIED SCIENCE 1
  • COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1

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 Software Developers, 17 of 36. 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 36 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 1,151. 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 32 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 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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