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PERM sponsor, #2,407 of 70,985 by filings

Banco Santander, S.A.

Banco Santander, S.A. sponsors green cards: it filed 18 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on July 30, 2026. Banco Santander, S.A. has 14 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Financial and Investment Analysts · 21% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 100% of its filings
Industry
Commercial Banking · NAICS 522110

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Too few cases for a rate

18 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

19

#2,407 of 70,985

Certified

17

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 18 decided

Median wage

$185,000

offered, per year

Median days

393

73 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 37 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

14

of 37 tracked cases. The other 23 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 26, 2024, 30 months ago.

Where those 14 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1179%

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

BALCA APPEALS
214%

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.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
17%

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 37 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 37, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 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.

  • G-100-26211-134136 Vice President, Structured Finance & Advisory filed 2026-07-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26147-955044 Executive Director, Financial Planning & Analysis filed 2026-05-27 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26135-913910 Senior Associate, Credit Risk filed 2026-05-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26135-913847 Vice President, Trade Finance filed 2026-05-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26125-867441 Vice President, Project & Structured Finance filed 2026-05-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26124-866708 Vice President, Private Debt Mobilization, LATAM filed 2026-05-04 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26120-853112 Front Office Product Specialist, Vice President filed 2026-04-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26050-651337 Deputy General Counsel filed 2026-02-19 · ANALYST REVIEW

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. Banco Santander, S.A.

    median of 7 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,912 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 80,461 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)
19 published
14 pending
$185,000 median, n=19
Prevailing wage requests
42 published
4 pending
$173,555 median, n=41
H-1B labor condition applications
0 published
0 pending
no wage published

Of its 14 pending PERM cases, 3 (21%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 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 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 Banco Santander, S.A., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26257-233511 Executive Director, Product Specialist FX & Rates 2026-09-14 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26223-159252 Vice President, Loan Operations, Risk & Control Manager, KYC 2026-08-11 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26212-138308 Vice President, USA CIB Sales – EAF 2026-07-31 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26196-102413 Head of US Financial Sponsor & Corporate Structuring 2026-07-15 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26190-088650 Executive Director, Product Specialist FX Volatility 2026-07-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

None confirmed yet.

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.

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 filings in the last 12 months

    18 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 13,990 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

393 daysmiddle of 18 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 18 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 18 and 19 filings.

Their median wait
479 days
This one
393 days

This one sits 86 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 2,407 of 70,985 by volume: 2,406 filed at least as many filings, and 68,578 filed no more.

Just above
PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 19 filings
Just below
AbbVie US LLC 19 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 Financial and Investment Analysts, 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

Financial and Investment Analysts

SOC 13-2051.00 · 4 filings, 21% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 13 of 19 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

Commercial Banking

NAICS 522110 · 19 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

  • New York 19
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. This state covers 19 of 19 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 19
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 19 of 19 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 15 filings
  2. Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP 4 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 19 of 19 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    14 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

    14 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    14 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    14 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

    36%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    57%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    7.1%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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 2016

37 PERM decisions from FY2016 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 12.

  • 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
FY2016 1 0 1
FY2017 2 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 3 0 0
FY2024 5 0 1
FY2025 1 0 0
FY2026 11 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 18. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22178-78990 2023-07-26 certified Sr. Associate, xVA Desk, NY $140,000
A-22221-02898 2023-07-26 certified Sr. Associate, Underwriting & Portfolio Management, NY $160,000
A-22040-09713 2022-11-18 certified Executive Director, NY $259,022
A-21263-47326 2022-05-13 certified Senior Associate, Credit Risk, Vice President, NY $150,200
A-21243-38527 2022-04-13 certified Vice President, Receivables, Global Transaction Banking, NY $135,000
A-21085-67104 2021-08-30 certified Associate Portfolio Management and Oversight, NY $115,000
A-20310-17405 2021-07-13 certified Front Office Quantitative Analyst, NY $208,000
A-20262-01550 2021-06-04 certified Head of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance 1st Line of Defense (1LoD), NY $250,000
The other 10
A-20120-48635 2020-09-29 certified Senior Trader, NY $208,700
A-20030-13438 2020-05-21 certified General Ledger Senior Financial Analyst, NY $145,000
A-19308-78916 2020-04-06 certified Director of Ongoing Model Management, NY $275,000
A-19302-76435 2020-03-31 certified Audit Manager, NY $120,050
A-19052-75522 2019-05-07 certified Senior Audit Manager (Associate Director), NY $138,000
A-18262-19882 2018-11-20 certified Business Control Officer, Risk Manager, NY $143,000
A-17066-10010 2017-05-31 certified Vice President, NY $130,000
A-16239-46760 2016-11-02 certified Vice President (Andean Products), NY $230,000
A-16238-46340 2016-08-26 withdrawn Vice President (Andean Products), NY $230,000
A-16132-08332 2016-08-22 certified Treasury Manager, NY $148,000

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

  • Spain 11
  • Argentina 3
  • India 2
  • Croatia 1
  • Mexico 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 12
  • Master's 5
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • L-1 12
  • H-1B 4
  • E-2 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • CEU SAN PABLO UNIVERSITY 2
  • UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID 2
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES 2
  • BOSTON UNIVERSITY 1
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL 1
  • HULT UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 4
  • ACTUARIAL SCIENCE 2
  • ECONOMICS 2
  • ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION WITH CONCENTRATION IN MANAGEMENT 1
  • ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS 1

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 7 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 #2,407 counts this page's cases only.

29 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 Financial and Investment Analysts, 4 of 19. 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 19 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 2,407. 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 18 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 NY. 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 20, 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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