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PERM sponsor, #20 of 70,985 by filings

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 208 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. Cisco Systems, Inc. has 199 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 34% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 54% of its filings
Industry
Electronic Computer Manufacturing · NAICS 334111

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Filings

1,303

#20 of 70,985

Certified

1,201

6 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$148,034

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 1,308 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

199

of 1,308 tracked cases. The other 1,109 have been decided.

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

Where those 199 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
199100%

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 1,308 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,308, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 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. Cisco Systems, Inc.

    median of 10 decisions in the last 90 days

    336 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

34 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)
1,303 published
199 pending
$148,034 median, n=1,301
Prevailing wage requests
3,003 published
579 pending
$151,232 median, n=2,915
H-1B labor condition applications
10,313 published
66 pending
$135,000 median, n=10,308

Its median H-1B wage is $135,000 across 10,308 LCAs, 8.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $148,034 across 1,301 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 Cisco Systems, Inc., 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: 10,313 LCAs filed by Cisco Systems, Inc., 10,281 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

34,283 positions for new employment, 13,819 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 34,283 · 38%
  • Change of employer 7e 13,819 · 15%
  • Continuing 7b 17,461 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 12,710 · 14%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 22 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 12,687 · 14%

Shares of the 90,938 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 82 · 1%
  • Level II 2,709 · 33%
  • Level III 4,666 · 57%
  • Level IV 669 · 8%

Shares of the 8,126 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; 2,155 of 10,281 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 30, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 9,180 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 10,234. 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 10,231 · E-3 (Australia) 73 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 8. 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

    99.5% of 1,207 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 29% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    208 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    2,381 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    10% of 32,942 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 39% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    74% of 2,305 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 88% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 4,588 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 29%

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 79 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 441 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 12 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 20 of 70,985 by volume: 19 filed at least as many filings, and 70,965 filed no more.

Just above
Salesforce, Inc. 1,373 filings
Just below
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP 1,267 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 · 447 filings, 34% of everything they file · 99.8% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 784 of 1,303 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

Electronic Computer Manufacturing

NAICS 334111 · 1,290 filings

  • Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing 3341111
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 5415112
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 800
  • North Carolina 210
  • Texas 141
  • Washington 32
  • Georgia 27
  • Illinois 23
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 1,233 of 1,303 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 709
  • Research Triangle Park, NC 207
  • Richardson, TX 88
  • San Francisco, CA 79
  • Austin, TX 48
  • Atlanta, GA 25
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,156 of 1,303 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 1,301 filings · 99.5% approved
  2. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LL 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,302 of 1,303 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    490 cases

  2. The News & Observer/The Herald-Sun

    94 cases

  3. The News & Observer

    79 cases

  4. The Dallas Morning News

    67 cases

  5. San Francisco Chronicle

    57 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    29 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

    953 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    953 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    953 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    2 cases

  5. The employer's website

    1 cases

  6. Radio or TV ads

    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

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    12%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    31%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    40%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    17%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.1%
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

9,527 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2019 with 1,212.

  • 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 136 4 3
FY2009 382 7 13
FY2010 464 4 4
FY2011 604 35 14
FY2012 142 100 6
FY2013 274 35 2
FY2014 186 13 14
FY2015 1,028 7 19
FY2016 892 9 7
FY2017 341 11 5
FY2018 259 6 1
FY2019 1,168 7 37
FY2020 484 3 26
FY2021 371 3 2
FY2022 743 0 8
FY2023 343 0 2
FY2024 357 4 10
FY2025 295 1 85
FY2026 549 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 4,728. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22263-24428 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $109,387
A-22279-34266 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,222
A-22286-39367 2023-09-25 certified Technical Marketing Engineer, MD $118,664
A-22289-40197 2023-09-25 certified Software Engineer, TX $150,076
A-22283-36192 2023-09-25 certified Technical Leader, Engineering, CA $205,000
A-22293-42726 2023-09-25 certified Technical Systems Engineer, TX $130,841
A-22286-38488 2023-09-25 certified Customer Project Manager (Project Manager), CA $135,305
A-22284-36866 2023-09-25 certified Customer Project Manager (Software Engineer), CA $162,484
The other 17
A-22229-07028 2023-09-25 certified Data Engineer (Machine Learning Engineer), CA $150,000
A-22286-38684 2023-09-22 certified Data Science Analyst, CA $152,000
A-22286-38585 2023-09-22 certified Data Scientist, CA $162,864
A-22287-39390 2023-09-22 certified Product Manager, Engineering, CA $170,709
A-22230-07862 2023-09-21 certified Technical Leader, Software Engineering, CA $192,941
A-22287-39550 2023-09-21 certified Leader, Technical Support, IL $130,666
A-22263-24421 2023-09-15 certified Software QA Engineer (Software Engineer), CA $132,000
A-22279-34362 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,222
A-22279-34342 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,222
A-22279-34319 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,222
A-22271-29311 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,222
A-22279-34370 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22278-34245 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22277-32754 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22277-32740 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22277-32735 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22270-29282 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894

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 3,792
  • China 329
  • Canada 117
  • Mexico 63
  • Brazil 38
  • United Kingdom 26

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,806
  • Bachelor's 1,712
  • Other 96
  • None 67
  • Doctorate 42
  • Associate's 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,765
  • L-1 745
  • F-1 113
  • H-4 31
  • TN 28
  • L-2 9

Schools

  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 254
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 218
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 130
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 122
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 111
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 99

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 809
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 767
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 608
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 566
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 140
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 134

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 #20 counts this page's cases only.

3 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, 447 of 1,303. 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 1,303 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 20. 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 1,207 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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