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PERM sponsor, #1,035 of 70,985 by filings

Broadcom Corporation

Broadcom Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 28 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 20, 2026. Broadcom Corporation has 22 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer · 46% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 67% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing · NAICS 33441

Waiting on a case with Broadcom Corporation?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 38 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 13.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

39

#1,035 of 70,985

Certified

37

1 denied

Approval

97.4%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$177,000

offered, per year

Median days

440

26 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 74 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

22

of 74 tracked cases. The other 52 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 24, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 22 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
22100%

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 74 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 74, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

Follow Broadcom Corporation

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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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. Broadcom Corporation

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,882 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 80,100 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
39 published
22 pending
$177,000 median, n=39
Prevailing wage requests
77 published
7 pending
$170,248 median, n=75
H-1B labor condition applications
644 published
1 pending
$159,702 median, n=642

Its median H-1B wage is $159,702 across 642 LCAs, 9.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $177,000 across 39 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 Broadcom Corporation, 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: 644 LCAs filed by Broadcom Corporation, 641 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

666 positions for new employment, 799 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 666 · 17%
  • Change of employer 7e 799 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 1,281 · 34%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 546 · 14%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 523 · 14%

Shares of the 3,815 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 1 · 1%
  • Level II 15 · 5%
  • Level III 10 · 3%
  • Level IV 304 · 92%

Shares of the 330 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; 311 of 641 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 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 582 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 639. 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 639 · E-3 (Australia) 5. 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

    97.4% of 38 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 16% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    28 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 97% of the 14,014 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    170 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 870 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 57% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    95% of 78 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 99% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.7% of 245 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 28% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

97.4%ahead of 16%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

440 daysahead of 73%

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 38 and 41 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
440 days

This one sits 23 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 1,035 of 70,985 by volume: 1,034 filed at least as many filings, and 69,950 filed no more.

Just above
AM/NS Calvert LLC 39 filings
Just below
Point72, L.P. 39 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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 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

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

SOC 17-2072.00 · 18 filings, 46% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 36 of 39 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 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

NAICS 33441 · 35 filings

  • Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing 3344134
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 37
  • Massachusetts 1
  • Texas 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 3 states cover 39 of 39 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 26
  • Irvine, CA 10
  • Andover, MA 1
  • Austin, TX 1
  • San Diego, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 39 of 39 filings.

Who files for them

  1. FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 39 filings · 97.4% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 39 of 39 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    22 cases

  2. The Orange County Register

    9 cases

  3. Austin American-Statesman

    1 cases

  4. The Boston Globe

    1 cases

  5. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    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

    34 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    34 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    34 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

    12%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    21%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    68%

  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

1,768 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2014 with 319.

  • 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 41 2 0
FY2009 41 1 2
FY2010 124 1 2
FY2011 135 9 3
FY2012 197 22 5
FY2013 111 4 2
FY2014 305 1 13
FY2015 165 2 11
FY2016 265 14 7
FY2017 18 4 0
FY2018 72 2 8
FY2019 42 0 2
FY2020 35 5 2
FY2021 35 1 0
FY2022 8 2 0
FY2023 8 0 0
FY2024 5 1 0
FY2025 14 0 0
FY2026 18 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 530. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22271-29296 2023-09-25 certified R&D Engineer SW Quality, CA $168,834
A-22126-51391 2023-06-06 certified Product Marketing Engineer, CA $196,934
A-21313-69945 2023-02-15 certified R&D Engineer Firmware, CA $139,360
A-22049-13809 2023-02-08 certified Architect, CA $168,834
A-21356-89849 2022-12-28 certified R&D Engineer Software, CA $184,080
A-22035-07314 2022-12-12 certified R&D Engineer Software 2, CA $104,905
A-21267-49218 2022-12-05 certified R&D Engineer SW Quality 4, CA $168,834
A-22006-94393 2022-10-05 certified R&D Engineer IC Design, CA $172,245
The other 17
A-21182-11000 2022-09-21 certified R&D Engineer IC Design, CA $172,245
A-21298-62684 2022-09-02 certified R&D Engineer Software 5, CA $184,080
A-21230-32917 2022-07-28 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 3, CA $115,743
A-21112-77047 2022-06-17 denied Product Marketing Engineer 5, CA $142,800
A-21120-80401 2022-06-03 denied R&D Engineer Software, CA $184,080
A-21236-35179 2022-04-25 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 5, CA $182,000
A-21236-35229 2022-03-23 certified R&D Engineer SW Quality 4, CA $170,872
A-21164-00340 2022-01-18 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 5, CA $194,723
A-21090-68651 2021-11-09 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 5, CA $166,026
A-21063-58112 2021-10-04 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 3, CA $154,000
A-20248-96042 2021-09-29 certified R&D Engineer Firmware 5, CA $172,640
A-20161-63168 2021-09-29 certified R&D Engineer Software 6, CA $194,760
A-20248-96157 2021-09-03 certified R&D Engineer Firmware 5, CA $172,640
A-20337-27376 2021-08-30 certified R&D ENGINEER IC DESIGN 5, CA $194,723
A-21037-49765 2021-08-06 certified R&D Engineer Applications 5, CA $153,000
A-21032-47616 2021-08-04 certified R&D Engineer IC Design 4, CA $154,586
A-21026-46056 2021-08-04 certified R&D Engineer Hardware 5, CA $169,520

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 321
  • China 92
  • South Korea 26
  • Canada 25
  • Taiwan 16
  • Israel 7

Worker's education

  • Master's 332
  • Bachelor's 153
  • Doctorate 45

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 344
  • L-1 91
  • F-1 73
  • TN 14
  • L-2 2
  • PAROLEE 2

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 31
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 18
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 13
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 12
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 12
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 10

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 203
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 57
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 45
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 35
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 19
  • ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 14

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 entry 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 #1,035 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 18 of 39. 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 39 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 1,035. 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 38 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 22, 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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