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PERM sponsor, #37 of 70,985 by filings

Citibank, N.A.

Citibank, N.A. sponsors green cards: it filed 253 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 22, 2026. Citibank, N.A. has 186 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 36% of its filings
Main worksite
Irving, TX · 35% of its filings
Industry
Commercial Banking · NAICS 522110

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Filings

825

#37 of 70,985

Certified

793

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$153,500

offered, per year

Median days

457

9 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 1,113 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

186

of 1,113 tracked cases. The other 927 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 5, 2025, 20 months ago.

Where those 186 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
18298%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
42%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 1,113 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,113, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

Follow Citibank, N.A.

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

  1. September 11 DOL certified 13 of its cases

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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.

Layoff notices filed by Citibank, N.A.

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.

  • January 14, 2026, layoff, permanent, 820 employees, New York, effective April 14, 2026. New York WARN report 388 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10013

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Citibank, N.A.

    median of 69 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)
825 published
186 pending
$153,500 median, n=824
Prevailing wage requests
1,493 published
104 pending
$131,477 median, n=1,469
H-1B labor condition applications
7,720 published
17 pending
$149,781 median, n=7,712

Its median H-1B wage is $149,781 across 7,712 LCAs, 2.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $153,500 across 824 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 186 pending PERM cases, 4 (2.1%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 4 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 Citibank, N.A., 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: 7,720 LCAs filed by Citibank, N.A., 7,537 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

2,082 positions for new employment, 1,681 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 2,082 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,681 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 2,188 · 29%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 964 · 13%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 636 · 8%

Shares of the 7,546 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 195 · 3%
  • Level II 1,334 · 18%
  • Level III 812 · 11%
  • Level IV 5,080 · 68%

Shares of the 7,421 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; 116 of 7,537 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 7,203 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 7,625. 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 7,618 · E-3 (Australia) 73 · H-1B1 (Chile) 20 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 9. 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 793 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    253 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 14,014 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    2,469 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 2,681 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 50% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    83% of 2,662 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 94% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.4% of 3,037 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% 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

457 daysahead of 59%

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 96 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 375 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
457 days

This one sits 4 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 37 of 70,985 by volume: 36 filed at least as many filings, and 70,948 filed no more.

Just above
IBM Corporation 853 filings
Just below
ByteDance Inc. 821 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 · 294 filings, 36% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 559 of 825 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

Commercial Banking

NAICS 522110, 52211 · 376 filings

  • Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 523110, 52311329
  • Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation 52315, 523150120
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

  • Texas 289
  • Florida 245
  • New York 187
  • New Jersey 47
  • Delaware 27
  • Missouri 7
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 802 of 825 filings.

Where the work is

  • Irving, TX 286
  • Tampa, FL 190
  • New York, NY 153
  • Jersey City, NJ 36
  • Miami, FL 27
  • Long Island City, NY 25
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 717 of 825 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty LLP 504 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 321 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 825 of 825 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    253 cases

  2. The New York Times

    191 cases

  3. Tampa Bay Times

    150 cases

  4. Miami Herald

    22 cases

  5. Jacksonville Times Union

    13 cases

  6. Wilmington News Journal

    12 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. The employer's website

    697 cases

  2. Job search websites

    697 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    442 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    258 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

    1.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    9.2%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    21%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    67%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.4%
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

1,808 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 376.

  • 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 4 0 0
FY2009 9 0 1
FY2010 6 1 0
FY2011 11 0 0
FY2012 22 0 1
FY2013 19 0 1
FY2014 38 0 3
FY2015 40 0 1
FY2016 61 0 2
FY2017 51 1 1
FY2018 88 1 1
FY2019 94 1 0
FY2020 112 1 1
FY2021 129 1 2
FY2022 126 0 7
FY2023 140 1 5
FY2024 133 0 6
FY2025 359 0 17
FY2026 301 0 9

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 826. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22243-14844 2023-09-29 certified Apps Dev Tech Lead Analyst, FL $140,000
A-22299-46359 2023-09-26 certified Business Unit Manager, NY $202,400
A-22271-29534 2023-09-21 certified Client Onboarding Lead Analyst, FL $97,000
A-22272-30482 2023-09-21 certified Financial Solutions Sr Group Manager - Capital Planning Quality Assurance, NY $229,500
A-22298-45257 2023-09-20 certified Balance Sheet Management Senior Lead Analyst, FL $144,340
A-22293-42977 2023-09-18 certified Application Support Intermediate Analyst, FL $86,600
A-22263-24844 2023-09-15 certified Information Security Technical Lead Analyst, TX $137,000
A-22285-37937 2023-09-14 certified CX Analytics Senior Manager, NY $152,300
The other 17
A-22285-38352 2023-09-08 certified Data/Information Management Analyst, NY $177,000
A-22284-37526 2023-09-07 certified IT Quality Senior Analyst, FL $119,000
A-22270-28711 2023-09-07 certified Balance Sheet Management Lead Group Manager, NY $275,000
A-22278-33691 2023-09-01 certified Business Analytics Sr. Lead Analyst, IL $174,325
A-22234-09936 2023-08-29 certified Model/Analysis/Validation Officer, TX $134,338
A-22252-18923 2023-08-29 certified Applications Development Technical Lead Analyst, FL $154,000
A-23086-19070 2023-08-28 withdrawn Risk Reporting Officer, NY $109,824
A-22273-31732 2023-08-22 certified Operations Support Senior Manager, FL $104,455
A-22271-29622 2023-08-22 certified Credit Officer 3, NY $160,000
A-22195-88752 2023-08-18 certified Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst, NJ $193,000
A-22213-98128 2023-08-18 certified Market Risk Senior Officer, TX $203,500
A-22263-24643 2023-08-04 certified Apps Dev. Sr. Manager, TX $143,600
A-22157-66663 2023-08-03 certified Information Security Technical Lead Analyst, TX $137,000
A-22258-22135 2023-08-03 certified Finance Reporting Lead Analyst, NY $142,000
A-22236-11307 2023-08-03 certified IT Business Lead Analyst, FL $128,162
A-22250-17842 2023-08-03 certified Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst, FL $120,765
A-22235-10451 2023-08-01 certified Application Support Tech Lead Analyst, TX $133,315

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 419
  • China 78
  • Brazil 76
  • Mexico 27
  • Colombia 23
  • United Kingdom 23

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 483
  • Master's 320
  • Doctorate 10
  • Other 7
  • Associate's 3
  • High School 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 512
  • L-1 299
  • NOT IN USA 4
  • E-3 3
  • TN 3
  • H-1B1 2

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 21
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 14
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 14
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 12
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 10
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 10

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 150
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 83
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 48
  • ECONOMICS 41
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 39
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 34

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 #37 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 Software Developers, 294 of 825. 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 825 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 37. 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 793 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 TX. 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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