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PERM sponsor, #319 of 70,985 by filings

CEPHEID

CEPHEID sponsors green cards: it filed 11 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 24, 2026. CEPHEID has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Manufacturing Engineers · 25% of its filings
Main worksite
Sunnyvale, CA · 62% of its filings
Industry
Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing · NAICS 334516

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This rate is level with the field

Over 116 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

116

#319 of 70,985

Certified

116

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$139,050

offered, per year

Median days

473

7 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 125 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 125 tracked cases. The other 119 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 9, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 6 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
6100%

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 125 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 125, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

Follow CEPHEID

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.

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. CEPHEID

    median of 6 decisions in the last 90 days

    330 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

28 days longer than everyone's, which usually means audits or requests for information in the mix. 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
116 published
6 pending
$139,050 median, n=116
Prevailing wage requests
107 published
4 pending
$138,070 median, n=107
H-1B labor condition applications
587 published
1 pending
$133,900 median, n=587

Its median H-1B wage is $133,900 across 587 LCAs, 3.7% lower than its median PERM wage of $139,050 across 116 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 CEPHEID, 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: 587 LCAs filed by CEPHEID, 562 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

131 positions for new employment, 183 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 131 · 23%
  • Change of employer 7e 183 · 33%
  • Continuing 7b 80 · 14%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 90 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 78 · 14%

Shares of the 562 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 27 · 6%
  • Level II 178 · 37%
  • Level III 116 · 24%
  • Level IV 155 · 33%

Shares of the 476 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; 86 of 562 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 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 524 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 585. 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 585 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 1. 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

    100.0% of 116 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    11 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 91% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    107 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 97% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    4.1% of 146 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 16% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    58% of 106 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 74% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.5% of 204 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 49% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

473 daysahead of 38%

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 97 and 146 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 2 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 319 of 70,985 by volume: 318 filed at least as many filings, and 70,666 filed no more.

Just above
Confluent, Inc. 116 filings
Just below
Lawrence Foods, Inc. 116 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 Manufacturing Engineers, 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

Manufacturing Engineers

SOC 17-2112.03 · 29 filings, 25% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 75 of 116 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

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing

NAICS 334516 · 114 filings

  • Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing 334512
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 114
  • Washington 2
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 2 states cover 116 of 116 filings.

Where the work is

  • Sunnyvale, CA 72
  • Lodi, CA 34
  • Santa Clara, CA 4
  • Newark, CA 3
  • Bothell, WA 2
  • Fremont, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 116 of 116 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Seyfarth Shaw LLP 116 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 116 of 116 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    67 cases

  2. The Record

    30 cases

  3. East Bay Times

    4 cases

  4. San Jose Mercury News

    2 cases

  5. Newspaper

    1 cases

  6. The Seattle 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. Job search websites

    105 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    105 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    105 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

    13%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    46%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    19%

  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

159 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 70.

  • 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 0 0 0
FY2010 0 0 0
FY2011 0 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 3 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 1 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 5 0 1
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 4 0 0
FY2021 8 0 0
FY2022 6 0 1
FY2023 6 0 0
FY2024 11 0 0
FY2025 70 0 0
FY2026 35 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 37. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22230-07955 2023-07-10 certified Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, CA $144,248
A-22165-71186 2023-05-30 certified Business Systems Manager, CA $180,000
A-22097-36944 2023-04-10 certified BI Manager, CA $159,598
A-22165-71376 2023-03-06 certified Embedded Software Engineer, CA $119,974
A-22111-44309 2023-02-01 certified Senior Process Engineer, CA $144,248
A-22074-25432 2023-01-04 certified Supplier Development Engineer, CA $144,248
A-21326-76350 2022-08-17 certified Embedded Software Engineer, CA $170,872
A-21313-70073 2022-08-02 certified SAP SD Sr Solutions Architect, CA $170,872
The other 17
A-21344-84903 2022-07-19 certified Agile PLM System Analyst, CA $170,872
A-21295-61917 2022-07-15 certified Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, CA $142,979
A-21288-58948 2022-05-18 certified Global Distribution Operations Manager, CA $142,979
A-21223-30398 2022-02-09 certified Connectivity Solutions Engineers, CA $122,658
A-21307-67311 2021-12-10 withdrawn Agile PLM System Analyst, CA $170,872
A-20279-07691 2021-09-29 certified Embedded Software Engineer, CA $139,050
A-21082-65233 2021-09-24 certified Senior Architect - SAP Basis, CA $170,872
A-21025-45187 2021-09-23 certified SAP HANA ABAP Developer, CA $170,872
A-21027-46072 2021-07-19 certified Senior System Engineer, CA $170,872
A-20314-18801 2021-06-16 certified SAP Solutions Architect, CA $140,650
A-20273-05091 2021-05-25 certified Senior Connectivity Solutions Engineer, CA $91,800
A-20245-94521 2021-05-07 certified Senior Embedded Software Engineer, CA $183,801
A-20038-16746 2020-12-01 certified Senior Supplier Development Engineer, CA $150,000
A-19364-00700 2020-06-26 certified Senior Director, Global Customer Care Enablement, CA $232,419
A-19350-96181 2020-05-14 certified Director, IT Global Business Services Commercial Operations, CA $172,396
A-19220-41895 2019-10-30 certified Software Test Automation Engineer, CA $148,803
A-17352-22974 2019-10-08 certified SAP Senior Solution Architect, CA $154,000

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 31
  • China 3
  • Canada 2
  • Taiwan 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 21
  • Bachelor's 14
  • Doctorate 1
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 36
  • TN 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 6
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY 1
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST BAY 1
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 6
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 4
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 2

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 Manufacturing Engineers, 29 of 116. 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 116 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 319. 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 116 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 18, 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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