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PERM sponsor, #556 of 70,985 by filings

Edwards Lifesciences LLC

Edwards Lifesciences LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 12 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 27, 2026. Edwards Lifesciences LLC has 15 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Biostatisticians · 10% of its filings
Main worksite
Irvine, CA · 90% of its filings
Industry
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing · NAICS 33911

Waiting on a case with Edwards Lifesciences LLC?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 59 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

67

#556 of 70,985

Certified

58

1 denied

Approval

98.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$133,400

offered, per year

Median days

459

7 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 81 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

15

of 81 tracked cases. The other 66 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 28, 2024, 28 months ago.

Where those 15 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1173%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
213%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

BALCA APPEALS
17%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

NORD ISSUED
17%

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 81 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 81, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

Follow Edwards Lifesciences LLC

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.

  • G-100-26239-197506 Sr. Analyst, Data Analytics [Radford Code: TE.DADI.P3] filed 2026-08-27 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26229-173236 Sr. Engineer, Implant Testing R&D (#KS-1112) filed 2026-08-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26190-088058 Field Clinical Specialist II, Transcatheter Devices filed 2026-07-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26177-054020 Sr. Analyst, Sales Strategy & Operation* filed 2026-06-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26155-981655 Director, Clinical Education (#RM-1208) filed 2026-06-04 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26146-946989 Manager, Facilities (#RM-0403) filed 2026-05-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26141-936745 Quality Engineer (Manufacturing) (#SR-0827) filed 2026-05-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26134-913177 Engineer, Supplier Quality (#AS-1011) filed 2026-05-14 · ANALYST REVIEW

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 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
67 published
15 pending
$133,400 median, n=67
Prevailing wage requests
86 published
5 pending
$130,541 median, n=80
H-1B labor condition applications
371 published
3 pending
$125,000 median, n=370

Its median H-1B wage is $125,000 across 370 LCAs, 6.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $133,400 across 67 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 15 pending PERM cases, 4 (27%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 under appeal. 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; 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 Edwards Lifesciences 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: 371 LCAs filed by Edwards Lifesciences LLC, 336 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

63 positions for new employment, 108 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 63 · 19%
  • Change of employer 7e 108 · 32%
  • Continuing 7b 38 · 11%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 87 · 26%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 41 · 12%

Shares of the 336 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 4 · 1%
  • Level II 51 · 16%
  • Level III 207 · 63%
  • Level IV 65 · 20%

Shares of the 327 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; 9 of 336 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 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 349 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 367. 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 367 · E-3 (Australia) 3 · 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

    98.3% of 59 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 21% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    12 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 92% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    93 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    11% of 121 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 40% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    80% of 117 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 92% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.3% of 136 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 57% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.3%ahead of 21%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

459 daysahead of 57%

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 61 and 75 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
459 days

This one sits 7 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 556 of 70,985 by volume: 555 filed at least as many filings, and 70,429 filed no more.

Just above
Monoflo International, Inc. 68 filings
Just below
Juniper Networks (US), Inc. 67 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 Biostatisticians, 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

Biostatisticians

SOC 15-2041.01 · 7 filings, 10% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 26 of 67 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

Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

NAICS 33911, 3391 · 58 filings

  • Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing 3391129
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 60
  • Utah 7
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 2 states cover 67 of 67 filings.

Where the work is

  • Irvine, CA 60
  • Draper, UT 7
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 67 of 67 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Larrabee Albi Coker LLP 67 filings · 98.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 67 of 67 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Orange County Register

    50 cases

  2. The Salt Lake Tribune

    7 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. Campus placement offices

    57 cases

  2. Job search websites

    57 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    57 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

    1.8%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    44%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    44%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    5.3%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    5.3%

  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

164 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 36.

  • 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
FY2008 2 0 0
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 2 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 3 0 0
FY2013 4 0 1
FY2014 4 0 0
FY2015 2 0 0
FY2016 11 0 0
FY2017 5 0 0
FY2018 8 0 0
FY2019 7 1 0
FY2020 9 0 2
FY2021 9 0 0
FY2022 7 1 0
FY2023 15 0 2
FY2024 12 0 5
FY2025 33 1 2
FY2026 13 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 77. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22132-54241 2023-08-31 withdrawn Sr. Manager, Strategy, CA $194,223
A-22129-52296 2023-08-30 certified Group Marketing Manager, Advanced Technology, CA $150,000
A-22161-70101 2023-04-24 certified Sr. Specialist, Health Economics & Reimbursement, CA $164,050
A-22172-75917 2023-04-24 certified Sr. Engineer, Heart Valve Testing, CA $112,000
A-22130-53103 2023-04-11 certified Sr. Manager, Strategy, Scientific Development, CA $178,900
A-22172-75614 2023-04-03 certified Sr. Specialist, Health Economics & Reimbursement, CA $164,050
A-23011-85540 2023-02-28 withdrawn Manager, Medical Writing, CA $175,000
A-22011-96497 2023-02-15 certified Staff Tableau Developer, CA $139,818
The other 17
A-21311-69250 2023-01-23 certified Architect, IT, Cloud Solutions, CA $139,818
A-21313-70663 2023-01-09 certified Associate Manager, Regulatory Affairs, CA $129,000
A-22011-96504 2022-12-21 certified Sr. Specialist, Regulatory Affairs, CA $99,133
A-22010-96027 2022-11-22 certified Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Integrator, CA $91,166
A-22010-96088 2022-11-21 certified Staff Engineer, Full Stack Software Lead, CA $139,818
A-21334-79207 2022-11-16 certified Sr. Software Engineer, GUI Development, CA $139,818
A-22010-96017 2022-11-09 certified Staff Engineer, Critical Care Discovery, CA $144,934
A-22011-96472 2022-11-09 certified Staff Developer, Enterprise Data Office, CA $139,818
A-22007-95288 2022-11-01 certified Sr. Collibra Admin & Developer, CA $139,818
A-21189-14093 2022-09-27 certified Sr. Specialist, Regulatory Affairs, CA $99,133
A-21312-69344 2022-07-28 denied Biostatistician, CA $101,500
A-21313-70639 2022-06-29 certified Staff Software Engineer, R&D, CA $139,818
A-21215-26409 2022-02-04 certified Staff R&D Engineer, Supplier Value Improvement, CA $124,072
A-21119-79846 2021-12-14 certified Associate Manager, Global Financial Systems Support, CA $104,749
A-21119-79847 2021-10-29 certified Staff Engineer, Surgical Structural Heart, CA $124,072
A-20293-11577 2021-10-14 certified Biostatistician, CA $119,000
A-20293-11556 2021-10-06 certified Staff R&D Engineer, THV, CA $126,000

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 40
  • China 8
  • Dominican Republic 6
  • Israel 6
  • Italy 2
  • Mexico 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 43
  • Bachelor's 21
  • Doctorate 11
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 58
  • L-1 16
  • TN 2
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 8
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 3
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE 2
  • STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2
  • TECHNION, ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 2

Fields of study

  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 8
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 8
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 4
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
  • BIOSTATISTICS 2

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 5 entries 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 #556 counts this page's cases only.

11 filings 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 Biostatisticians, 7 of 67. 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 67 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 556. 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 59 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 25, 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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