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PERM sponsor, #171 of 70,985 by filings

Cruise LLC

Main job
Software Developers · 39% of its filings
Main worksite
San Francisco, CA · 92% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences · NAICS 54171

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This rate is level with the field

Over 216 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

219

#171 of 70,985

Certified

213

3 denied

Approval

98.6%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$163,200

offered, per year

Median days

446

20 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 147 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 147 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 147 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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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.

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 30,289 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 80,222 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
219 published
0 pending
$163,200 median, n=218
Prevailing wage requests
151 published
7 pending
$155,605 median, n=142
H-1B labor condition applications
1,122 published
0 pending
$190,000 median, n=1,122

Its median H-1B wage is $190,000 across 1,122 LCAs, 16% higher than its median PERM wage of $163,200 across 218 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 Cruise LLC, 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: 1,122 LCAs filed by Cruise LLC, 1,113 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

157 positions for new employment, 529 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 157 · 14%
  • Change of employer 7e 529 · 46%
  • Continuing 7b 338 · 29%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 35 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 99 · 9%

Shares of the 1,158 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 12 · 1%
  • Level II 162 · 15%
  • Level III 359 · 34%
  • Level IV 525 · 50%

Shares of the 1,058 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; 55 of 1,113 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 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 983 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,065. 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 1,064 · E-3 (Australia) 55 · H-1B1 (Chile) 2 · 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

    98.6% of 216 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 23% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    102 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 97% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 149 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 44% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    85% of 133 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 95% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 236 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.6%ahead of 23%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

446 daysahead of 70%

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 170 and 323 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
446 days

This one sits 16 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 171 of 70,985 by volume: 170 filed at least as many filings, and 70,814 filed no more.

Just above
Lam Research Corporation 223 filings
Just below
BEST BUY CO., INC. 219 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 · 86 filings, 39% of everything they file · 97.6% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 137 of 219 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

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

NAICS 54171 · 178 filings

  • Scientific Research and Development Services 541739
  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 5182101
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Census group 54171) 5417101
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 202
  • Washington 13
  • Arizona 3
  • Virginia 1
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 4 states cover 219 of 219 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Francisco, CA 201
  • Bellevue, WA 13
  • Phoenix, AZ 2
  • Phoenix, CA 1
  • San Francisco, VA 1
  • Scottsdale, AZ 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 219 of 219 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Minami Tamaki LLP 218 filings · 98.6% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 218 of 219 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    137 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    4 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    2 cases

  4. San Francisco Chonicle

    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. Employee referral programs

    143 cases

  2. Job search websites

    143 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    143 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

    55%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    31%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    9.1%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.9%

  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 2020

441 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 107.

  • 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
FY2020 47 0 0
FY2021 58 0 1
FY2022 48 0 0
FY2023 67 0 1
FY2024 90 0 2
FY2025 105 1 1
FY2026 18 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 222. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22300-47565 2023-09-26 certified Sr. Hardware Integration Engineer, CA $195,000
A-22293-43479 2023-09-26 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $192,000
A-22283-36754 2023-09-26 certified Senior Data Science Engineer, CA $182,000
A-22286-39323 2023-09-26 certified Sr. Product Operations Manager, CA $132,000
A-22290-40935 2023-09-21 certified Senior Release Operations Engineer, CA $160,000
A-22252-19305 2023-09-15 certified Senior Integrated Systems Engineer(s), Embedded Systems, CA $183,310
A-22292-42377 2023-09-13 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, CA $180,000
A-22280-35985 2023-09-07 certified Reliability Engineer, CA $135,000
The other 17
A-22263-25000 2023-09-07 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, CA $180,000
A-22263-25162 2023-09-07 certified Manager, Financial Controls, CA $140,000
A-22229-07748 2023-09-01 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, CA $225,000
A-22270-29243 2023-09-01 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $180,000
A-22277-33430 2023-08-31 certified Senior SOC Verification Engineer, CA $185,100
A-22251-18686 2023-08-30 certified Senior Risk Program Manager, WA $148,000
A-22270-29233 2023-08-28 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $210,000
A-22264-25767 2023-08-23 certified Software Engineer, CA $144,600
A-22235-10364 2023-08-18 certified Senior Global Supply Manager, CA $140,000
A-22243-15206 2023-08-18 certified Software Engineer, CA $140,000
A-22249-17421 2023-08-18 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, CA $190,000
A-22241-13758 2023-08-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $150,000
A-22238-12874 2023-07-27 certified Senior Data Science Engineer, CA $182,000
A-22231-08938 2023-07-14 certified Software Engineer, CA $170,000
A-22234-10014 2023-06-21 certified Senior Machine Learning Engineer, CA $194,700
A-22188-84978 2023-06-02 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $190,000
A-22207-95226 2023-05-24 certified Engineering Manager, CA $220,000

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 92
  • China 76
  • Canada 18
  • Australia 6
  • Russia 4
  • Taiwan 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 148
  • Bachelor's 48
  • Doctorate 22
  • None 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 181
  • F-1 15
  • TN 11
  • E-3 6
  • O-1 3
  • L-2 2

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 10
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 8
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 8
  • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 7
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 7
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 41
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 26
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 20
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 11
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 11
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 7

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 #171 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, 86 of 219. 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 219 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 171. 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 216 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 21, 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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