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PERM sponsor, #358 of 70,985 by filings

Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health sponsors green cards: it filed 21 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 22, 2026. Cardinal Health has 20 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 46% of its filings
Main worksite
Dublin, OH · 88% of its filings
Industry
Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 423450

Waiting on a case with Cardinal Health?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 97 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

102

#358 of 70,985

Certified

96

1 denied

Approval

99.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$130,499

offered, per year

Median days

464

2 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 116 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

20

of 116 tracked cases. The other 96 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 1, 2024, 27 months ago.

Where those 20 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1890%

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

BALCA APPEALS
210%

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 116 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 116, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow Cardinal Health

An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

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.

  • G-100-26295-316791 Sr. Principal Engineer, Process filed 2026-10-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26288-303076 Sr. Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance filed 2026-10-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-267717 Sr. Consultant, Business Analysis filed 2026-09-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26268-260626 Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance filed 2026-09-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26246-213716 Engineer, Software Engineering filed 2026-09-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26236-188932 Quality Regulatory & Medical Assurance Project Manager filed 2026-08-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26236-188860 Digital Product Owner Analytics filed 2026-08-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26236-188774 Sr. Data Scientist, Data Science filed 2026-08-24 · 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. Every employer

    median of 31,881 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 3 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 79,585 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
102 published
20 pending
$130,499 median, n=102
Prevailing wage requests
107 published
12 pending
$121,139 median, n=104
H-1B labor condition applications
927 published
5 pending
$109,000 median, n=927

Its median H-1B wage is $109,000 across 927 LCAs, 16.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $130,499 across 102 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 20 pending PERM cases, 2 (10%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 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 Cardinal Health, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26292-308667 Scientist III, Medical Writing 2026-10-19 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26285-294554 Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-10-12 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26280-286158 Sr. Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-10-07 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26267-257514 Staff Engineer, Commercial Technologies Software Engineer 2026-09-24 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26260-242114 Sr. Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-09-17 · IN PROCESS

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26296-318686 Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-10-23 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26295-317039 Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-10-22 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26293-312699 Sr. Engineer, Software/Info Platform 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26293-311863 Program Manager, Program/Project Management 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26293-311605 Sr. Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS

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: 927 LCAs filed by Cardinal Health, 910 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

75 positions for new employment, 275 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 75 · 8%
  • Change of employer 7e 275 · 30%
  • Continuing 7b 445 · 49%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 116 · 13%

Shares of the 910 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 33 · 4%
  • Level II 320 · 35%
  • Level III 331 · 36%
  • Level IV 226 · 25%

Shares of the 910 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; 0 of 910 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 877 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 918. 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 918 · E-3 (Australia) 5 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4. 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

    99.0% of 97 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 26% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    21 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,035 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    242 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    21% of 274 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 67% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    57% of 274 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 72% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.7% of 344 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 60% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.0%ahead of 26%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

464 daysahead of 51%

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 88 and 124 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
464 days

This one sits 1 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 358 of 70,985 by volume: 357 filed at least as many filings, and 70,627 filed no more.

Just above
Federal Express Corporation 102 filings
Just below
Denken Solutions, Inc. 102 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 · 47 filings, 46% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 72 of 102 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

Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

NAICS 423450 · 102 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

  • Ohio 93
  • Texas 3
  • Georgia 2
  • Massachusetts 2
  • California 1
  • Missouri 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 6 states cover 102 of 102 filings.

Where the work is

  • Dublin, OH 90
  • Augusta, GA 2
  • Mansfield, MA 2
  • Twinsburg, OH 2
  • Dunblin, OH 1
  • El Paso, TX 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 98 of 102 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Jackson Lewis PC 102 filings · 99.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 102 of 102 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Columbus Dispatch

    75 cases

  2. The Augusta Chronicle

    2 cases

  3. Sun Chronicle

    2 cases

  4. Akron Beacon

    1 cases

  5. El Paso Times

    1 cases

  6. LA Times

    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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    85 cases

  2. Radio or TV ads

    85 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    84 cases

  4. Job search websites

    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

    1.2%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    69%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    16%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    9.4%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    3.5%

  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

539 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2017 with 45.

  • 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 10 1 0
FY2009 9 1 7
FY2010 25 1 0
FY2011 27 2 2
FY2012 32 1 5
FY2013 5 0 1
FY2014 14 0 0
FY2015 25 1 3
FY2016 41 0 0
FY2017 39 3 3
FY2018 41 1 3
FY2019 40 0 0
FY2020 28 0 1
FY2021 24 0 1
FY2022 22 0 1
FY2023 16 0 1
FY2024 24 1 2
FY2025 37 0 3
FY2026 35 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 265. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22258-22053 2023-09-11 certified Sr. Consultant, Advanced Analytics, OH $151,700
A-22255-19951 2023-08-28 certified Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance, OH $110,500
A-22209-96277 2023-07-11 certified Engineer, Software Information Platform, OH $128,500
A-21161-99448 2023-07-06 certified Sr. Engineer, Application Development & Maintenance, OH $122,888
A-22255-19857 2023-07-03 certified Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $126,000
A-22156-66233 2023-06-12 certified Advisor, Financial Planning & Analysis, TX $66,662
A-22199-90025 2023-05-30 certified Tech Lead, Software Engineering, OH $156,764
A-22158-67484 2023-04-24 certified Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance, OH $117,875
The other 17
A-22256-20521 2023-02-13 withdrawn Sr. Consultant, Advanced Analytics, OH $160,235
A-22118-47711 2023-01-31 certified Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $125,000
A-22042-10410 2022-12-21 certified Engineer, Cloud Engineering, OH $133,000
A-22059-17110 2022-11-14 certified Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance, OH $117,208
A-22024-01875 2022-11-10 certified Engineer, Software/Info Platform, OH $101,379
A-22028-04277 2022-11-08 certified Software Engineer, OH $115,044
A-21321-74602 2022-11-07 certified Manager Enterprise Architecture, TX $133,586
A-21340-82006 2022-11-07 certified Engineer, Information Security, OH $130,410
A-21342-83360 2022-10-28 certified Cloud Data Engineer, OH $139,558
A-21334-79244 2022-09-23 certified Sr. Engineer, Software Engineering, CA $155,500
A-21293-61145 2022-09-23 certified Engineer, Information Security, OH $124,500
A-21344-84813 2022-09-16 certified Advisor, Financial Systems, OH $116,714
A-22005-93875 2022-08-31 certified Sr. Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $150,819
A-21319-73411 2022-08-31 certified Sr. Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $135,000
A-21355-89141 2022-08-30 certified Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $132,470
A-22034-07047 2022-08-09 withdrawn Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $117,208
A-21333-78608 2022-08-01 certified Engineer, Software Engineering, OH $117,208

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 221
  • China 23
  • Mexico 5
  • Ghana 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Canada 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 160
  • Bachelor's 100
  • Doctorate 4
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 252
  • TN 5
  • L-1 4
  • F-1 2

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 15
  • THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 13
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 6
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 5
  • THE BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE 5
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 4

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 33
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 20
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 12
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 11
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 10
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 10

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 12 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 #358 counts this page's cases only.

38 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, 47 of 102. 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 102 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 358. 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 97 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 OH. 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 23, 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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