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PERM sponsor, #4,198 of 70,985 by filings

DFS Services LLC

Main job
Data Scientists · 36% of its filings
Main worksite
Riverwoods, IL · 100% of its filings
Industry
Consumer Lending · NAICS 522291

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Too few cases for a rate

11 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

11

#4,198 of 70,985

Certified

11

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 11 decided

Median wage

$122,470

offered, per year

Median days

485

19 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 8 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 8 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 8 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 19, 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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,263 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 80,773 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
11 published
0 pending
$122,470 median, n=11
Prevailing wage requests
24 published
4 pending
$120,328 median, n=23
H-1B labor condition applications
185 published
1 pending
$106,000 median, n=185

Its median H-1B wage is $106,000 across 185 LCAs, 13.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $122,470 across 11 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 Services 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: 185 LCAs filed by DFS Services LLC, 180 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

34 positions for new employment, 29 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 34 · 19%
  • Change of employer 7e 29 · 16%
  • Continuing 7b 24 · 13%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 13 · 7%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 80 · 44%

Shares of the 180 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 5 · 3%
  • Level II 50 · 31%
  • Level III 46 · 29%
  • Level IV 58 · 36%

Shares of the 159 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; 21 of 180 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 173 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 185. 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

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.

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

    52 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 93% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 56 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 51% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    83% of 42 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

    98.2% of 54 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 44% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

485 daysmiddle of 11 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 11 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 11 filings each.

Their median wait
477 days
This one
485 days

This one sits 8 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 4,198 of 70,985 by volume: 4,197 filed at least as many filings, and 66,787 filed no more.

Just above
H-TOWN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 11 filings
Just below
BTG Pactual US Capital LLC 11 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 Data Scientists, 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

Data Scientists

SOC 15-2051.00 · 4 filings, 36% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 11 of 11 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 · 6 filings

  • Credit Card Issuing 522210, 522215
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 11
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 11 of 11 filings.

Where the work is

  • Riverwoods, IL 11
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 11 of 11 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 8 filings
  2. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, Loewy, LLP 3 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 11 of 11 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Tribune

    8 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

    8 cases

  2. The employer's website

    8 cases

  3. Job search websites

    8 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

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    88%

  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 2013

44 PERM decisions from FY2013 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 5.

  • 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
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 3 0 0
FY2017 4 0 0
FY2018 5 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 4 1 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 1 0 0
FY2023 5 0 0
FY2024 3 0 0
FY2025 4 0 0
FY2026 4 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 27. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22252-18844 2023-08-31 certified Lead Data Engineer, IL $134,500
A-22164-70487 2023-04-10 certified Lead Data Science Analyst, IL $112,750
A-22151-63439 2023-04-05 certified Principal Business Analyst, OH $118,714
A-22055-15497 2023-02-10 certified Senior Manager Network Operations, IL $137,917
A-22080-28049 2023-02-08 certified Lead Payments Product Management, IL $142,875
A-21281-55807 2022-08-17 certified Product Owner, IL $101,750
A-21030-47435 2021-09-03 certified Associate Product Manager, IL $145,570
A-20084-34220 2020-10-21 certified Product Owner, IL $105,997
The other 17
A-19220-41518 2020-08-13 certified Principal Payment Technology Development, IL $100,000
A-19274-64857 2020-06-04 certified Senior Advanced Analytics Analyst, IL $96,211
A-19311-80229 2020-05-19 certified Senior Manager Payments Products, IL $128,750
A-19252-54881 2020-03-31 certified Product Owner, IL $62,000
A-18309-37856 2019-11-14 denied Manager, Chip Payment Technology Development, IL $143,333
A-18206-01340 2018-11-16 certified Product Owner, IL $107,744
A-18197-97545 2018-11-16 certified Consultant, Gateways, IL $107,744
A-17309-06976 2018-05-22 certified Senior Associate, Global Network Analytics, IL $81,816
A-17354-23683 2018-05-16 certified Consultant, Production Support, IL $107,744
A-17323-12223 2018-05-02 certified Project Manager, Network Infrastructure, IL $98,176
A-17290-99720 2018-04-05 certified Consultant, Global Network Analytics, Pricing and Portfolio Management, IL $97,384
A-17166-51291 2017-11-03 certified Project Manager, Analytics, IL $88,234
A-17072-13149 2017-07-24 certified Manager, Restructuring and Workouts, IL $125,000
A-17072-13133 2017-05-31 certified Manager, Product Development, AZ $141,523
A-17060-08013 2017-05-30 certified Senior Manager, Payment Services, IL $101,795
A-16358-84503 2017-02-28 certified Consultant, Network Marketing, IL $103,500
A-16126-06144 2016-08-18 certified Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances, Advanced Payments, AZ $105,934

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 22
  • China 3
  • South Africa 1
  • United States Of America 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 13
  • Bachelor's 11
  • Other 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 26
  • PAROLEE 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 3
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • BARKATULLAH VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BHOPAL 1
  • BHARATHIYAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 1
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 1
  • GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 4
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 4
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 3
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 2
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 2

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 Data Scientists, 4 of 11. 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 11 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 4,198. 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 11 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 19, 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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