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Dropbox, Inc.

Dropbox, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 3 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on November 6, 2025.

Main job
Data Scientists · 24% of its filings
Main worksite
San Francisco, CA · 82% of its filings
Industry
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services · NAICS 518210

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This rate is level with the field

Over 37 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

38

#1,080 of 70,985

Certified

37

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$161,491

offered, per year

Median days

471

5 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 29 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 29 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 29 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 17, 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.

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

Only 3 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 80,795 cases, and would be decided around March 13, 2027 (between February 21, 2027 and April 22, 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)
38 published
0 pending
$161,491 median, n=38
Prevailing wage requests
106 published
2 pending
$180,710 median, n=105
H-1B labor condition applications
926 published
1 pending
$158,100 median, n=926

Its median H-1B wage is $158,100 across 926 LCAs, 2.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $161,491 across 38 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 Dropbox, Inc., 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: 926 LCAs filed by Dropbox, Inc., 822 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

244 positions for new employment, 260 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 244 · 26%
  • Change of employer 7e 260 · 28%
  • Continuing 7b 165 · 18%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 152 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 108 · 12%

Shares of the 923 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 26 · 3%
  • Level II 403 · 50%
  • Level III 123 · 15%
  • Level IV 253 · 31%

Shares of the 805 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; 17 of 822 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 828 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 901. 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 899 · E-3 (Australia) 22 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 5. 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 37 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    3 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 68% of the 13,941 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    91 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    18% of 116 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 60% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    34% of 110 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 51% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.9% of 188 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

471 daysahead of 42%

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 36 and 40 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
471 days

This one sits 7 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 1,080 of 70,985 by volume: 1,079 filed at least as many filings, and 69,905 filed no more.

Just above
Grainger Management LLC 38 filings
Just below
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. 38 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 · 9 filings, 24% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 29 of 38 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

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

NAICS 518210 · 38 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

  • California 31
  • Washington 5
  • New York 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 3 states cover 38 of 38 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Francisco, CA 31
  • Seattle, WA 5
  • New York, NY 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 38 of 38 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 36 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Senior Associate 2 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 38 of 38 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    21 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    4 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. Job search websites

    25 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    25 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    25 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

    28%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    12%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    60%

  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 2012

447 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 88.

  • 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
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 9 0 0
FY2015 17 0 0
FY2016 29 1 3
FY2017 32 1 0
FY2018 37 1 1
FY2019 26 0 0
FY2020 38 0 0
FY2021 83 1 4
FY2022 58 1 1
FY2023 63 0 1
FY2024 13 0 0
FY2025 14 0 1
FY2026 10 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 381. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22265-26564 2023-09-20 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22235-10103 2023-09-20 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,100
A-22269-28136 2023-09-19 certified Software Engineer, TX $160,700
A-22265-26304 2023-09-05 certified Software Engineer, CA $117,300
A-22269-28209 2023-08-24 certified Software Engineer, TX $160,700
A-22265-26445 2023-08-24 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,100
A-22265-26402 2023-08-24 certified Software Engineer, CA $117,300
A-22265-26911 2023-08-23 certified Oracle Technical Developer, TX $141,100
The other 17
A-22269-28523 2023-08-21 certified Software Engineer, NY $178,500
A-22269-28396 2023-08-21 certified Software Engineer, TX $132,300
A-22269-28531 2023-08-21 certified Software Engineer, WA $178,500
A-22242-14495 2023-08-03 certified Software Engineer, WA $117,300
A-22236-10840 2023-08-03 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,100
A-22235-10175 2023-08-03 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,100
A-22250-18092 2023-07-31 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22242-14506 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer, WA $178,500
A-22242-14212 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer, WA $178,500
A-22242-14136 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer, WA $178,500
A-22231-08607 2023-07-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22230-07903 2023-07-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22229-07797 2023-07-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,100
A-22229-07737 2023-07-17 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22242-14439 2023-07-13 certified Software Engineer, WA $147,100
A-22234-09381 2023-07-13 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500
A-22234-09359 2023-07-13 certified Software Engineer, CA $178,500

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 146
  • China 125
  • Canada 23
  • Russia 13
  • France 9
  • Taiwan 9

Worker's education

  • Master's 249
  • Bachelor's 122
  • Doctorate 5
  • None 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 355
  • L-1 15
  • O-1 8
  • F-1 1
  • PAROLEE 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 35
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 12
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 8
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 145
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 25
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 19
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 14
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 11
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 9

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, 9 of 38. 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 38 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 1,080. 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 37 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 17, 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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