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PERM sponsor, #383 of 70,985 by filings

Arista Networks, Inc.

Arista Networks, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 50 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 22, 2026. Arista Networks, Inc. has 28 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 46% of its filings
Main worksite
Santa Clara, CA · 72% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services · NAICS 541512

Waiting on a case with Arista Networks, Inc.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 96 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.3% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

96

#383 of 70,985

Certified

94

2 denied

Approval

97.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$141,378

offered, per year

Median days

458

8 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 132 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

28

of 132 tracked cases. The other 104 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed June 18, 2026, 4 months ago.

Where those 28 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
28100%

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 132 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 132, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 10 DOL certified 11 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. Arista Networks, Inc.

    median of 22 decisions in the last 90 days

    304 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
96 published
28 pending
$141,378 median, n=96
Prevailing wage requests
179 published
4 pending
$134,566 median, n=179
H-1B labor condition applications
1,002 published
2 pending
$127,087 median, n=999

Its median H-1B wage is $127,087 across 999 LCAs, 10.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $141,378 across 96 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; 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 Arista Networks, 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: 1,002 LCAs filed by Arista Networks, Inc., 994 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

291 positions for new employment, 153 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 291 · 29%
  • Change of employer 7e 153 · 15%
  • Continuing 7b 455 · 46%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 12 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 83 · 8%

Shares of the 994 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 2 · 22%
  • Level II 3 · 33%
  • Level III 2 · 22%
  • Level IV 2 · 22%

Shares of the 9 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; 985 of 994 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 11, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 932 of 933 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 1,002. 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

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

    97.9% of 96 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 19% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    50 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    317 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    16% of 344 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 56% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    97.3% of 405 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 34% 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 2026-06-18).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

97.9%ahead of 19%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

458 daysahead of 58%

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 82 and 113 filings.

Their median wait
470 days
This one
458 days

This one sits 12 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 383 of 70,985 by volume: 382 filed at least as many filings, and 70,602 filed no more.

Just above
Analog Devices, Inc. 96 filings
Just below
Marsh Country Health Alliance 96 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 · 44 filings, 46% of everything they file · 95.5% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 83 of 96 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

Computer Systems Design Services

NAICS 541512 · 93 filings

  • Computer Systems Design and Related Services 541513
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 70
  • New Hampshire 9
  • Texas 9
  • North Carolina 7
  • Washington 1
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 5 states cover 96 of 96 filings.

Where the work is

  • Santa Clara, CA 69
  • Austin, TX 9
  • Nashua, NH 9
  • Cary, NC 7
  • Bellevue, WA 1
  • San Francisco, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 96 of 96 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Naya Law Group PC (dba Finnan, Fleischut & Assoc.) 52 filings · 98.1% approved
  2. Naya Law Group PC 30 filings · 96.7% approved
  3. Naya Law Group PC dba Finnan Fleischut Associates 14 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 96 of 96 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    59 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    6 cases

  3. The News & Observer

    6 cases

  4. Union Leader

    4 cases

  5. Austin Statesman

    3 cases

  6. New Hampshire Sunday News

    3 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. Employee referral programs

    82 cases

  2. Job search websites

    82 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    82 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

    3.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    33%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    52%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    11%

  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

419 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 53.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 9 0 0
FY2014 31 0 0
FY2015 43 0 3
FY2016 38 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 53 0 0
FY2019 49 0 0
FY2020 35 0 4
FY2021 16 0 1
FY2022 19 0 2
FY2023 15 0 0
FY2024 14 0 0
FY2025 44 1 0
FY2026 36 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 235. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22257-21385 2023-09-27 certified Professional Services Engineer, NH $98,030
A-22216-00306 2023-08-30 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $116,043
A-22256-20854 2023-08-30 certified Software Engineer, NH $77,230
A-22255-20130 2023-08-22 certified Advanced Services Engineer, TX $151,570
A-22213-98060 2023-08-17 certified Software Engineer, CA $141,025
A-22256-20673 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer, TX $109,868
A-22192-86461 2023-06-12 certified Advanced Services Engineer, CA $128,814
A-22200-91043 2023-06-12 certified Mechanical Engineer, CA $100,000
The other 17
A-22215-99774 2023-06-12 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $116,043
A-22200-91111 2023-06-12 certified Member of Technical Staff, CA $179,134
A-22194-87982 2023-06-12 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22215-99734 2023-05-25 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $116,043
A-22209-96709 2023-05-25 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22195-88804 2023-04-14 certified Hardware Engineer, CA $122,429
A-22200-90847 2023-04-14 certified Software Engineer, NH $77,230
A-21351-88225 2022-08-17 certified Senior Product Manager, CA $184,080
A-21190-15100 2022-06-03 withdrawn Software Engineer, TX $87,589
A-21174-06389 2022-05-24 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,578
A-21162-00199 2022-05-09 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $108,108
A-21165-01003 2022-04-20 certified Technical Solutions Engineer, NC $70,930
A-21160-98799 2022-04-20 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $108,108
A-21154-95789 2022-04-13 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,578
A-21188-13690 2022-02-09 certified Software Engineer, TX $106,080
A-21188-13588 2022-02-09 certified Software Engineer, CA $97,704
A-21204-21916 2022-01-28 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $145,663

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 176
  • China 24
  • Canada 16
  • France 3
  • Pakistan 3
  • Vietnam 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 187
  • Bachelor's 44
  • Doctorate 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 228
  • F-1 2
  • L-1 2
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 20
  • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER 20
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 12
  • WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY 11
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 10
  • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER 10

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 50
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 38
  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS 32
  • COMPUTER NETWORKING 22
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 16
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 12

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, 44 of 96. 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 96 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 383. 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 96 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 24, 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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