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PERM sponsor, #89 of 70,985 by filings

DFS Corporate Services LLC

Main job
Software Developers · 71% of its filings
Main worksite
Riverwoods, IL · 96% of its filings
Industry
Consumer Lending · NAICS 522291

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Filings

408

#89 of 70,985

Certified

388

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$120,328

offered, per year

Median days

458

8 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 324 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 324 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 324 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

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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 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 80,135 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
408 published
0 pending
$120,328 median, n=408
Prevailing wage requests
493 published
0 pending
$108,077 median, n=484
H-1B labor condition applications
3,026 published
0 pending
$108,000 median, n=3,024

Its median H-1B wage is $108,000 across 3,024 LCAs, 10.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $120,328 across 408 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, 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 DFS Corporate Services LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26030-609378 Principal Business Analyst $117,957 per year 2026-01-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26013-556670 Senior Manager Data Science $202,779 per year 2026-01-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25178-134964 Application Engineer $108,077 per year 2025-06-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25157-064551 Manager Software Engineering $146,501 per year 2025-06-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25156-056575 Senior Manager Product Owner $133,182 per year 2025-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26006-539298 Application Engineer $108,012 per year 2026-01-06 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25346-480323 Principal Application Engineer $148,971 per year 2025-12-12 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25345-474915 Expert Application Architect $175,500 per year 2025-12-11 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25345-473995 Principal Application Engineer $153,315 per year 2025-12-10 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25345-473979 Senior Associate Infrastructure Engineer $88,102 per year 2025-12-10 · CERTIFIED

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: 3,026 LCAs filed by DFS Corporate Services LLC, 2,981 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

278 positions for new employment, 1,125 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 278 · 9%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,125 · 38%
  • Continuing 7b 559 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 143 · 5%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 877 · 29%

Shares of the 2,981 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 100 · 4%
  • Level II 1,081 · 40%
  • Level III 430 · 16%
  • Level IV 1,076 · 40%

Shares of the 2,687 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; 294 of 2,981 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 January 6, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 2,732 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,025. 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 3,025 · E-3 (Australia) 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 388 decided PERM cases

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

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

    462 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    4.5% of 559 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 17% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    51% of 437 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 67% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.9% of 1,038 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 54% 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

458 daysahead of 58%

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 255 and 1,057 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
458 days

This one sits 5 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 89 of 70,985 by volume: 88 filed at least as many filings, and 70,896 filed no more.

Just above
Charter Communications, Inc. 408 filings
Just below
PECO FOODS, INC 399 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 · 290 filings, 71% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 381 of 408 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

Consumer Lending

NAICS 522291 · 204 filings

  • Credit Card Issuing 522210, 52221200
  • Savings Institutions 5221203
  • Activities Related to Credit Intermediation 52231
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

  • Illinois 394
  • New York 4
  • Arizona 3
  • Texas 3
  • Ohio 2
  • Utah 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 6 states cover 408 of 408 filings.

Where the work is

  • Riverwoods, IL 390
  • Fairport, NY 4
  • Houston, TX 3
  • Phoenix, AZ 3
  • Chicago, IL 2
  • New Albany, OH 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 404 of 408 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 297 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 111 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 408 of 408 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Tribune

    289 cases

  2. The Arizona Republic

    2 cases

  3. Houston Chronicle

    2 cases

  4. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

    2 cases

  5. The Salt Lake Tribune

    2 cases

  6. The Columbus Dispatch

    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

    299 cases

  2. The employer's website

    299 cases

  3. Job search websites

    299 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

    0.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    4.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    12%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    83%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.3%
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 2011

781 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 167.

  • 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
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 6 0 0
FY2013 7 0 0
FY2014 13 0 0
FY2015 11 0 0
FY2016 18 0 2
FY2017 18 0 0
FY2018 40 0 1
FY2019 24 0 0
FY2020 41 0 1
FY2021 47 0 0
FY2022 89 1 1
FY2023 51 0 0
FY2024 110 0 6
FY2025 111 0 14
FY2026 167 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 334. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22285-38012 2023-09-22 certified Application Engineer, IL $128,125
A-22258-21711 2023-09-22 certified Application Engineer, IL $140,000
A-22271-30106 2023-09-20 certified Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack, IL $149,907
A-22272-30331 2023-09-11 certified Principal Application Architect, IL $149,450
A-22277-33258 2023-09-08 certified Principal Application Engineer, IL $156,000
A-22262-23468 2023-08-30 certified Infrastructure Engineer, IL $126,499
A-22237-12042 2023-08-30 certified Application Engineer, IL $130,000
A-22080-28105 2023-08-30 certified Principal Software Developer, IL $144,000
The other 17
A-22273-31117 2023-08-30 certified Manager Software Engineering, IL $158,288
A-22234-09840 2023-08-29 certified Principal Technical Architect, IL $154,020
A-22235-10527 2023-08-24 certified Principal Infrastructure Engineer, IL $140,700
A-22230-07858 2023-06-14 certified Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack, IL $128,125
A-22030-04726 2023-06-06 certified Principal Model Validation, IL $126,088
A-22076-26971 2023-04-21 certified Lead Software Developer, IL $122,220
A-22056-16099 2023-04-21 certified Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack, IL $135,660
A-22172-75363 2023-04-17 certified Lead Software Developer, IL $133,900
A-22152-63892 2023-04-17 certified Principal Model Validation, IL $134,589
A-22168-73714 2023-03-30 certified Lead Data Engineer, IL $133,939
A-22168-73728 2023-03-30 certified Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, IL $107,931
A-22164-70447 2023-03-28 certified Lead Data Engineer, IL $124,630
A-22172-75471 2023-03-28 certified Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack, IL $134,550
A-22174-76949 2023-03-28 certified Lead Software Developer, IL $134,500
A-22146-61483 2023-03-06 certified Lead Software Developer, IL $148,000
A-22144-59840 2023-03-01 certified Senior Cloud Engineer, IL $125,460
A-22152-63826 2023-02-28 certified Principal Data Engineer, IL $164,800

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 308
  • China 22
  • Ghana 1
  • Iran 1
  • Nepal 1
  • Pakistan 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 203
  • Master's 117
  • Other 9
  • Doctorate 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 331
  • H-4 2

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 27
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 21
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 14
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 13
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 13
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 9

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 61
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 36
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 34
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 21
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 16
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 14

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, 290 of 408. 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 408 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 89. 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 388 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 IL. 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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