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PERM sponsor, #448 of 70,985 by filings

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on December 23, 2025.

Main job
Software Developers · 38% of its filings
Main worksite
Round Rock, TX · 60% of its filings
Industry
Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 42343

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This rate is level with the field

Over 76 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

81

#448 of 70,985

Certified

76

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$141,665

offered, per year

Median days

454

12 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 84 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 84 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 84 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 20, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 7 DOL certified 16 of its cases

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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. EMC Corporation

    median of 19 decisions in the last 90 days

    293 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,586 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 80,522 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)
81 published
0 pending
$141,665 median, n=81
Prevailing wage requests
369 published
8 pending
$124,342 median, n=360
H-1B labor condition applications
1,892 published
2 pending
$138,419 median, n=1,888

Its median H-1B wage is $138,419 across 1,888 LCAs, 2.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $141,665 across 81 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 3 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 EMC Corporation, 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: 1,892 LCAs filed by EMC Corporation, 1,848 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

428 positions for new employment, 208 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 428 · 23%
  • Change of employer 7e 208 · 11%
  • Continuing 7b 825 · 45%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 159 · 9%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 229 · 12%

Shares of the 1,848 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 42 · 3%
  • Level II 267 · 17%
  • Level III 435 · 27%
  • Level IV 839 · 53%

Shares of the 1,583 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; 265 of 1,848 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,701 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 1,874. 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 1,874 · E-3 (Australia) 14 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 4. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by EMC Corporation, as DOL's case-status service shows them.

  • H-300-23067-831489 H-2A application Cattle Workers 2023-03-08 · FULL CERTIFICATION - EXPIRED
  • H-300-22068-965766 H-2A application Cattle workers 2022-03-09 · FULL CERTIFICATION - EXPIRED

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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 76 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    19 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 13,976 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    340 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    4.5% of 421 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

    81% of 369 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 93% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.5% of 572 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 59% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
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

454 daysahead of 63%

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 72 and 94 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
454 days

This one sits 8 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 448 of 70,985 by volume: 447 filed at least as many filings, and 70,537 filed no more.

Just above
Schneider Electric USA, Inc. 81 filings
Just below
Voyager Express Inc 81 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 · 31 filings, 38% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 54 of 81 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

Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers

NAICS 42343, 423430 · 81 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

  • Texas 50
  • Massachusetts 19
  • California 9
  • North Carolina 3
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 81 of 81 filings.

Where the work is

  • Round Rock, TX 49
  • Hopkinton, MA 18
  • Santa Clara, CA 9
  • Durham, NC 2
  • Austin, TX 1
  • Franklin, MA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 80 of 81 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Seyfarth Shaw LLP 80 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 81 of 81 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Austin American-Statesman

    33 cases

  2. The Boston Globe

    11 cases

  3. The Mercury News

    6 cases

  4. The News & Observer

    3 cases

  5. Boston Sunday Globe

    2 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

    55 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    55 cases

  3. Employee referral programs

    52 cases

  4. Trade or professional organizations

    3 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

    87%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    5.5%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    5.5%

  7. Over 180 days

    1.8%
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

1,553 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2016 with 269.

  • 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 52 2 0
FY2009 25 3 3
FY2010 18 0 1
FY2011 53 2 3
FY2012 80 1 6
FY2013 79 5 4
FY2014 100 6 6
FY2015 186 5 11
FY2016 259 2 8
FY2017 125 0 4
FY2018 66 0 4
FY2019 110 1 2
FY2020 83 0 1
FY2021 51 0 0
FY2022 84 0 0
FY2023 19 2 0
FY2024 26 0 4
FY2025 49 0 1
FY2026 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 821. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21351-88019 2023-09-08 denied Senior Principal Engineering Technologist, TX $228,800
A-22151-63247 2023-05-30 certified Software Engineer 2, CA $127,487
A-22083-30471 2023-05-11 certified Software Senior Principal Engineer, TX $167,133
A-22146-61668 2023-04-05 certified Software Senior Engineer, MA $124,128
A-22060-17517 2023-03-23 certified Senior Advisor, Business Operations, TX $109,928
A-22146-61543 2023-03-06 certified Software Principal Engineer, TX $169,381
A-22151-63317 2023-03-03 certified Consultant, Corporate Counseling, TX $177,000
A-22143-59317 2023-02-21 certified Software Senior Engineer, TX $166,600
The other 17
A-22132-54175 2023-02-10 certified Principal Global Architect, TX $231,000
A-22131-53719 2023-02-10 certified Senior Advisor, Product Management, TX $206,000
A-22144-60015 2023-02-01 certified Advisor, IT Service Operations, TX $124,500
A-22144-59972 2023-02-01 certified Software Senior Engineer, TX $134,237
A-22108-42348 2023-01-11 certified Software Senior Engineer, TX $132,600
A-22084-31023 2023-01-10 certified Software Senior Engineer, TX $125,400
A-21351-88146 2022-12-28 denied Senior Consultant, TX $150,500
A-21356-89806 2022-11-21 certified Principal Engineer, Technical Support, TX $127,813
A-22060-17466 2022-11-21 certified Software Engineer 2, WA $135,000
A-22060-17431 2022-11-21 certified Principal Engineer, Technical Support, TX $126,381
A-22046-11706 2022-11-18 certified Software Senior Developer, TX $94,915
A-21318-72772 2022-10-26 certified Software Senior Engineer, TX $116,728
A-22020-00237 2022-10-20 certified Senior Engineer, Technical Support, TX $104,224
A-21307-67565 2022-09-21 certified Software Engineer 2, WA $111,603
A-22007-95070 2022-09-16 certified Principal Engineer, Service Delivery, TX $121,239
A-21354-88574 2022-09-09 certified Principal Software Engineer - IT, MA $114,125
A-21309-68894 2022-09-09 certified Software Quality Principal Engineer, CA $142,331

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 587
  • China 66
  • Canada 24
  • Mexico 16
  • Russia 14
  • Brazil 13

Worker's education

  • Master's 461
  • Bachelor's 317
  • None 21
  • Doctorate 11
  • Other 10
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 719
  • L-1 79
  • F-1 8
  • NOT IN USA 4
  • H-4 3
  • TN 3

Schools

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 44
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 25
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 17
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 14
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE 14
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 12

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 166
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 105
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 59
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 57
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 50
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 33

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, 31 of 81. 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 81 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 448. 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 76 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 TX. 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 20, 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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