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Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 1,831 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on February 13, 2026. Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation has 1,831 PERM cases waiting with DOL, all of them on hold.

Main job
Software Developers · 51% of its filings
Main worksite
College Station, TX · 100% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services · NAICS 541512

Waiting on a case with Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation?

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Filings

1,236

#23 of 70,985

Certified

1,235

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$84,802

offered, per year

Median days

418

48 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 1,832 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1,831

of 1,832 tracked cases. The other 1 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 17, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 1,831 are standing

APPLICATION ON HOLD
1,831100%

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 1,832 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,832, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

Follow Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation

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. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

None 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 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)
1,236 published
1,831 pending
$84,802 median, n=1,236
Prevailing wage requests
33 published
0 pending
$91,770 median, n=32
H-1B labor condition applications
96,718 published
85 pending
$94,432 median, n=96,706

Its median H-1B wage is $94,432 across 96,706 LCAs, 11% higher than its median PERM wage of $84,802 across 1,236 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 1,831 pending PERM cases, 1,831 (100%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1,831 on hold. The hold, from this site's daily record: on hold since before August 27, 2026, when this site's record begins. 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 10 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 Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26291-307509 Associate Director JC40 - Information Security Analysts 2026-10-18 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26291-307506 Manager JC50 - Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 2026-10-18 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26291-307504 Manager JC50 - Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 2026-10-18 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26291-307503 SA JC60 - Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 2026-10-18 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26291-307500 SA JC60 - Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 2026-10-18 · 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: 96,718 LCAs filed by Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation, 95,526 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

16,793 positions for new employment, 6,298 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 16,793 · 18%
  • Change of employer 7e 6,298 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 27,183 · 28%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1,887 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 43,544 · 46%

Shares of the 95,701 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 448 · 1%
  • Level II 40,316 · 42%
  • Level III 41,887 · 44%
  • Level IV 12,399 · 13%

Shares of the 95,050 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; 476 of 95,526 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 89,210 of 89,211 LCAs, and a willful violator on 4 of 96,548. 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 96,548 · E-3 (Australia) 148 · H-1B1 (Chile) 6 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 16. 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 1,235 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    1,831 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

    16,364 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

    7.8% of 19,731 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 29% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    71% of 19,556 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 86% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.7% of 15,989 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 51% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 4 LCAs.
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

418 daysahead of 82%

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 82 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 425 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
418 days

This one sits 43 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 23 of 70,985 by volume: 22 filed at least as many filings, and 70,962 filed no more.

Just above
Meta Platforms, Inc. 1,257 filings
Just below
FMR LLC 1,224 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 · 625 filings, 51% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 1,235 of 1,236 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

Computer Systems Design Services

NAICS 541512 · 1,236 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

  • Texas 1,236
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 1,236 of 1,236 filings.

Where the work is

  • College Station, TX 1,236
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 1,236 of 1,236 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Eagle

    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. The employer's website

    1 cases

  2. Job fairs

    1 cases

  3. 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

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    100%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

26,715 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2024, busiest in FY2015 with 7,189.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2008 0 1 0
FY2009 48 6 31
FY2010 762 63 40
FY2011 1,942 388 24
FY2012 1,063 51 43
FY2013 185 54 34
FY2014 70 61 31
FY2015 7,079 57 53
FY2016 4,241 16 12
FY2017 4,193 9 29
FY2018 9 3 0
FY2019 2,970 1 1
FY2020 808 1 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 1 0 0
FY2023 1,099 0 0
FY2024 1,235 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 13,393. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22326-61709 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61708 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22326-61707 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61706 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61705 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22326-61704 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61703 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer A, TX $70,782
A-22326-61702 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
The other 17
A-22326-61701 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61698 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22326-61677 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer A, TX $70,782
A-22326-61670 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22326-61669 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22326-61666 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer A, TX $70,782
A-22325-60929 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22325-60928 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22325-60927 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22325-60922 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22325-60919 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22325-60918 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22325-60912 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22325-60910 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer C, TX $70,782
A-22325-60909 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22325-60907 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802
A-22325-60906 2023-09-29 certified Systems Analyst/Developer B, TX $84,802

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 13,302
  • United States Of America 25
  • China 17
  • Romania 8
  • Canada 7
  • United Kingdom 5

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 9,812
  • Master's 2,894
  • Other 686
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 12,505
  • L-1 827
  • L-2 13
  • H-4 12
  • PAROLEE 12
  • TN 2

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 1,919
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 799
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 771
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 624
  • THE WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 519
  • BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 367

Fields of study

  • ENGINEERING (ELECTRONIC) 2,982
  • ENGINEERING (COMPUTER) 2,502
  • ENGINEERING 1,172
  • SCIENCE (COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS) 1,032
  • SCIENCE (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) 850
  • SCIENCE (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS) 719

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 Software Developers, 625 of 1,236. 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 1,236 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 23. 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 1,235 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 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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