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PERM sponsor, #1,197 of 70,985 by filings

Carnival Corporation

Carnival Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 12 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 20, 2026. Carnival Corporation has 7 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Intelligence Analysts · 18% of its filings
Main worksite
Miami, FL · 100% of its filings
Industry
Deep Sea Passenger Transportation · NAICS 483112

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Too few cases for a rate

29 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

34

#1,197 of 70,985

Certified

29

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 29 decided

Median wage

$122,470

offered, per year

Median days

470

4 slower 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 45 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

7

of 45 tracked cases. The other 38 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 27, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 7 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
7100%

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 45 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 45, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 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-100-26263-246959 Architect, Network Connectivity Solutions filed 2026-09-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26240-201844 Manager, Information Management & CRM filed 2026-08-28 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-200-26166-015475 Technical Operations Manager filed 2026-06-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26111-818379 Sr. Mgr, Demand Planning, Market Analysis, and Supplier Perf filed 2026-04-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26105-799203 Senior Engineer, Cloud Platform filed 2026-04-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26053-656472 HVAC & Refrigeration Asset Manager filed 2026-02-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26027-592738 Junior Data Analyst filed 2026-01-27 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-25360-512054 Project Manager, Global HR Analytics & Technology filed 2025-12-26 · CERTIFIED

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.

Layoff notices filed by Carnival Corporation

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • May 19, 2020, 157 employees, effective June 1, 2020. Florida WARN report 3655 N.E. 87th Avenue, DORAL, FL, 33178

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Carnival Corporation

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
34 published
7 pending
$122,470 median, n=34
Prevailing wage requests
88 published
2 pending
$128,690 median, n=85
H-1B labor condition applications
311 published
0 pending
$96,138 median, n=310

Its median H-1B wage is $96,138 across 310 LCAs, 21.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $122,470 across 34 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 3 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 Carnival 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: 311 LCAs filed by Carnival Corporation, 261 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

51 positions for new employment, 65 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 51 · 20%
  • Change of employer 7e 65 · 25%
  • Continuing 7b 49 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 12 · 5%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 84 · 32%

Shares of the 261 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 15 · 6%
  • Level II 87 · 34%
  • Level III 100 · 39%
  • Level IV 56 · 22%

Shares of the 258 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; 3 of 261 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 301 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 311. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    12 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 92% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    87 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    28% of 95 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 80% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    52% of 92 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 68% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.4% of 110 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 24% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

470 daysmiddle of 29 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 29 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 33 and 36 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 7 days behind 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 1,197 of 70,985 by volume: 1,196 filed at least as many filings, and 69,788 filed no more.

Just above
Consultadd Incorporation 35 filings
Just below
Afterpay US, Inc. 34 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 Business Intelligence 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

Business Intelligence Analysts

SOC 15-2051.01 · 6 filings, 18% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 21 of 34 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

Deep Sea Passenger Transportation

NAICS 483112 · 34 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

  • Florida 34
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 34 of 34 filings.

Where the work is

  • Miami, FL 34
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 34 of 34 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP 34 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 34 of 34 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Miami Herald

    28 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

    28 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    28 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    28 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

    7.1%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    21%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    54%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    14%

  7. Over 180 days

    3.6%
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

152 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2019 with 19.

  • 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 2 0 0
FY2009 2 0 0
FY2010 12 0 0
FY2011 5 0 0
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 4 0 0
FY2014 4 0 0
FY2015 7 0 1
FY2016 6 0 0
FY2017 7 0 1
FY2018 15 0 0
FY2019 14 3 2
FY2020 13 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 5 0 0
FY2023 8 2 0
FY2024 5 0 2
FY2025 13 0 2
FY2026 11 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 79. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21294-61375 2023-09-11 denied Sr. Quality Engineer, FL $102,253
A-22220-01567 2023-08-10 certified Manager, Electrical Design, FL $138,000
A-22222-03260 2023-08-03 certified Revenue Business Analyst, FL $73,445
A-22168-73613 2023-07-17 certified Senior Analyst, Business Intelligence, FL $80,000
A-22168-73719 2023-05-12 certified Project Planner, Dry-Dock, FL $88,046
A-22168-73682 2023-05-11 certified Applications Analyst, FL $111,862
A-22168-73655 2023-05-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, FL $137,800
A-22167-72839 2023-05-01 certified Data Analyst, FL $70,000
The other 17
A-22094-34927 2023-02-22 denied Manager, Delivery & Support, FL $125,000
A-22041-10301 2023-02-06 certified Senior Financial Analyst, FL $90,000
A-21263-47456 2022-06-15 certified Fleet Finance Support Analyst, FL $54,000
A-21294-61607 2022-05-19 certified Sr. Technical Support Engineer, FL $97,594
A-21238-36407 2022-04-25 certified Product Manager, Guest Technology, FL $98,405
A-21255-42981 2022-03-28 certified Senior Analyst, Performance Analytics, FL $80,000
A-21172-04552 2022-03-18 certified Manager, Revenue Accounting Systems, FL $89,981
A-19325-86492 2021-03-16 certified Intermediate Business Analyst, FL $69,389
A-20113-45979 2020-11-05 certified Senior Solutions Unix Architect, FL $110,000
A-20105-42890 2020-11-05 certified Senior Data Analyst, FL $77,250
A-19325-86540 2020-09-29 certified Senior Business Analyst, FL $97,698
A-20052-21888 2020-09-23 certified Manager, Casino Campaign Optimization, FL $88,000
A-19238-49419 2020-07-09 certified Senior Financial Analyst, FL $87,125
A-20051-21439 2020-06-30 certified Entertainment Technical Audio Trainer, FL $57,080
A-19227-44932 2020-06-30 certified Casino Financial Senior Analyst, FL $92,700
A-20051-21232 2020-06-29 certified Supervisor, Electronic Health Records (EHR) Support, FL $66,300
A-20043-18454 2020-06-29 certified Manager, All Brands Group Planning and Accounting, FL $102,000

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

  • India 44
  • China 5
  • Canada 3
  • Mexico 3
  • Philippines 3
  • Ukraine 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 43
  • Bachelor's 26
  • None 7
  • Other 2
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 57
  • L-1 14
  • F-1 6
  • E-3 1
  • L-2 1

Schools

  • DR. BHIM RAO AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 3
  • DR. L. BULLAYYA COLLEGE 2
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY 2
  • FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2
  • NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 12
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 8
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 6
  • MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 5
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 4
  • MATHEMATICS 3

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 Business Intelligence Analysts, 6 of 34. 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 34 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 1,197. 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 29 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 FL. 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 25, 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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