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PERM sponsor, #4 of 70,985 by filings

APPLE INC.

APPLE INC. sponsors green cards: it filed 430 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 8, 2026. APPLE INC. has 259 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 36% of its filings
Main worksite
Cupertino, CA · 85% of its filings
Industry
Electronic Computer Manufacturing · NAICS 334111

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Filings

2,813

#4 of 70,985

Certified

2,678

6 denied

Approval

99.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$144,500

offered, per year

Median days

405

61 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 1,878 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

259

of 1,878 tracked cases. The other 1,619 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed October 23, 2023, 35 months ago.

Where those 259 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
25699%

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

RFI ISSUED
21%

DOL has asked the employer for more documentation. The deadline is the one printed on the RFI letter, because DOL doesn't publish a standard response window for these.

BALCA APPEALS
1<1%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

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 1,878 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,878, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 11 DOL certified 22 of its cases
  2. September 10 DOL certified 55 of its cases
  3. September 9 DOL certified 40 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. APPLE INC.

    median of 161 decisions in the last 90 days

    297 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
2,813 published
259 pending
$144,500 median, n=2,812
Prevailing wage requests
2,576 published
605 pending
$146,711 median, n=2,513
H-1B labor condition applications
32,479 published
95 pending
$169,853 median, n=32,460

Its median H-1B wage is $169,853 across 32,460 LCAs, 18% higher than its median PERM wage of $144,500 across 2,812 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.

Of its 259 pending PERM cases, 3 (1.2%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 at RFI, 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 4 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 APPLE 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: 32,479 LCAs filed by APPLE INC., 31,290 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

25,610 positions for new employment, 10,816 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 25,610 · 25%
  • Change of employer 7e 10,816 · 11%
  • Continuing 7b 46,677 · 46%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 16,031 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 2,941 · 3%

Shares of the 102,057 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 251 · 1%
  • Level II 3,924 · 17%
  • Level III 7,390 · 32%
  • Level IV 11,195 · 49%

Shares of the 22,760 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; 8,530 of 31,290 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 26, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 2 of 30,239 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 32,107. 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 32,042 · E-3 (Australia) 352 · H-1B1 (Chile) 7 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 78. 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

    99.8% of 2,684 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    430 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

    10,784 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

    8.8% of 29,444 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 33% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    78% of 7,179 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 91% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.1% of 13,259 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 56% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.8%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

405 daysahead of 87%

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 63 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 530 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
405 days

This one sits 56 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 4 of 70,985 by volume: 3 filed at least as many filings, and 70,981 filed no more.

Just above
Management Health Systems, LLC 2,849 filings
Just below
Intel Corporation 2,735 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 · 1,014 filings, 36% of everything they file · 99.6% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 1,821 of 2,813 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 Computer Manufacturing

NAICS 334111 · 2,811 filings

  • Full-Service Restaurants 7225112
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 2,494
  • Texas 168
  • Washington 100
  • New York 20
  • Massachusetts 9
  • Florida 8
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 2,799 of 2,813 filings.

Where the work is

  • Cupertino, CA 2,383
  • Austin, TX 156
  • Seattle, WA 99
  • San Diego, CA 88
  • New York, NY 20
  • West Lake Hills, TX 10
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 2,756 of 2,813 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 2,800 filings · 99.8% approved
  2. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 9 filings
  3. LAU & CHOI, P.C. 2 filings
  4. Fragomen, Del Ray, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 2,812 of 2,813 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    997 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    154 cases

  3. The Seattle Times

    92 cases

  4. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    78 cases

  5. The New York Times

    17 cases

  6. Los Angeles Times

    10 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

    1,396 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    1,394 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    1,317 cases

  4. The employer's website

    77 cases

  5. Employee referral programs

    3 cases

  6. Campus placement offices

    1 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

    2.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    16%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    43%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    38%

  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

13,010 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 1,527.

  • 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 31 1 0
FY2009 45 1 5
FY2010 152 1 11
FY2011 120 8 2
FY2012 236 6 4
FY2013 211 0 12
FY2014 562 4 12
FY2015 494 5 14
FY2016 992 6 6
FY2017 910 10 9
FY2018 1,017 3 7
FY2019 996 2 3
FY2020 883 1 3
FY2021 1,152 7 6
FY2022 992 5 18
FY2023 1,199 1 32
FY2024 1,421 2 104
FY2025 1,224 4 12
FY2026 33 0 13

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 8,260. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22210-97005 2023-09-27 certified Hardware Development Engineer, CA $125,757
A-22229-07214 2023-09-27 certified Hardware Development Engineer, CA $148,221
A-22276-32109 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer - Firmware, CA $119,500
A-22199-89789 2023-09-27 certified Engineering Project Coordinator, CA $137,300
A-22263-24644 2023-09-27 certified Marcom Packaging Operator, CA $131,872
A-22220-01726 2023-09-27 certified Data Scientist, CA $137,300
A-22277-32928 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $192,941
A-22221-02422 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $142,438
The other 17
A-22208-95489 2023-09-27 certified AR/VR Software Development Engineer, CA $157,900
A-22211-97490 2023-09-27 certified Software Development Engineer - Apps, CA $130,894
A-22228-06361 2023-09-27 certified Strategic Sourcing Coordinator, CA $103,800
A-22257-21082 2023-09-27 certified Strategic Sourcing Coordinator, CA $155,480
A-22236-11090 2023-09-27 certified Strategic Sourcing Coordinator, CA $155,480
A-22180-80420 2023-09-26 certified Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, CA $157,269
A-22236-11525 2023-09-26 certified Clinical Quality Specialist, CA $104,749
A-22350-75221 2023-09-26 withdrawn Manufacturing Design Engineer, CA $122,408
A-22199-89728 2023-09-26 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $119,500
A-22234-09473 2023-09-26 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $147,376
A-22229-07227 2023-09-26 certified Production Services Engineer, CA $157,900
A-22222-03226 2023-09-26 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $140,253
A-22209-96246 2023-09-26 certified Configuration/Release Engineer, CA $147,386
A-22236-10850 2023-09-26 certified Engineering Project Coordinator, CA $143,361
A-22208-95345 2023-09-26 certified Software Engineer Applications, CA $119,500
A-22199-89752 2023-09-26 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $157,900
A-22253-19366 2023-09-26 certified Technical Program Coordinator, CA $137,350

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 4,551
  • China 1,383
  • Canada 577
  • France 185
  • United Kingdom 176
  • Taiwan 135

Worker's education

  • Master's 5,293
  • Bachelor's 2,321
  • Doctorate 424
  • None 120
  • Other 100
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 7,396
  • L-1 619
  • O-1 107
  • TN 43
  • H-4 36
  • F-1 14

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 352
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 276
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 182
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 162
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 162
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 147

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1,400
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 1,130
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1,004
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 538
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 537
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 397

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 11 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 #4 counts this page's cases only.

31 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, 1,014 of 2,813. 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 2,813 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 4. 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 2,684 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 18, 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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