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PERM sponsor, #3,353 of 70,985 by filings

Fenwick & West, LLP

Fenwick & West, LLP sponsors green cards: it filed 1 PERM case in the last 12 months, the newest on March 14, 2026. Fenwick & West, LLP has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

Main job
Lawyers · 71% of its filings
Main worksite
San Francisco, CA · 50% of its filings
Industry
Offices of Lawyers · NAICS 541110

Waiting on a case with Fenwick & West, LLP?

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

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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

14

#3,353 of 70,985

Certified

10

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 11 decided

Median wage

$285,000

offered, per year

Median days

396

70 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 10 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 10 tracked cases. The other 9 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 14, 2026, 7 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1100%

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

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 10 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 10, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow Fenwick & West, LLP

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.

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

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 81,062 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)
14 published
1 pending
$285,000 median, n=14
Prevailing wage requests
9 published
0 pending
9 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
88 published
0 pending
$240,000 median, n=88

Its median H-1B wage is $240,000 across 88 LCAs, 15.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $285,000 across 14 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 Fenwick & West, LLP, 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: 88 LCAs filed by Fenwick & West, LLP, 81 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

35 positions for new employment, 17 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 35 · 43%
  • Change of employer 7e 17 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 22 · 27%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 5 · 6%

Shares of the 81 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 7 · 9%
  • Level II 28 · 35%
  • Level III 16 · 20%
  • Level IV 28 · 35%

Shares of the 79 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; 2 of 81 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 76 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 82. 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 82 · E-3 (Australia) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 2. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    1 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 22% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    19 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 82% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

396 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 14 filings each.

Their median wait
459 days
This one
396 days

This one sits 63 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 3,353 of 70,985 by volume: 3,352 filed at least as many filings, and 67,632 filed no more.

Just above
JIA 3471, INC. 14 filings
Just below
Law Office Of Manuel E Solis PC 14 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 Lawyers, 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

Lawyers

SOC 23-1011.00 · 10 filings, 71% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 12 of 14 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

Offices of Lawyers

NAICS 541110 · 10 filings

  • Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing 3344133
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 5415111
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 8
  • New York 5
  • Washington 1
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 14 of 14 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Francisco, CA 7
  • New York, NY 5
  • Mountain View, CA 1
  • Seattle, WA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 14 of 14 filings.

Who files for them

  1. FRAGOMEN, DEL REY, BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP 14 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 14 of 14 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    5 cases

  2. The New York Times

    3 cases

  3. The Seattle Times

    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. Job search websites

    9 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    9 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    9 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

    22%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    67%

  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 2011

43 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 7.

  • 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 3 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 1 0 0
FY2017 4 1 0
FY2018 4 0 0
FY2019 3 0 0
FY2020 1 0 0
FY2021 2 1 0
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 3 0 1
FY2024 4 1 2
FY2025 2 0 1
FY2026 4 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 24. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22134-55310 2023-05-25 certified Associate, CA $190,000
A-22230-07924 2023-02-15 withdrawn Associate, CA $255,000
A-22052-13898 2022-12-21 certified Associate, CA $220,000
A-21343-83827 2022-12-12 certified Associate, CA $190,000
A-21215-26173 2022-07-11 certified Associate, CA $330,000
A-21294-61531 2022-05-20 certified Patent Engineer, CA $100,000
A-21111-76447 2021-12-15 certified Senior Marketing Application Developer, CA $170,872
A-19344-92961 2021-07-14 denied Associate, CA $325,000
The other 16
A-20176-68917 2021-06-04 certified Associate, NY $280,000
A-20076-31021 2020-12-08 certified Associate, NY $280,000
A-19343-92913 2020-05-20 certified Patent Engineer, CA $85,000
A-18270-22864 2019-03-22 certified Associate, NY $180,000
A-18212-02884 2019-01-23 certified Associate, NY $180,000
A-18212-02806 2018-12-14 certified Associate Attorney, CA $235,000
A-17346-20570 2018-06-07 certified Patent Engineer, CA $107,500
A-17292-00495 2018-04-23 certified Associate, WA $217,000
A-17227-76168 2018-03-29 certified Associate, CA $204,027
A-17230-77368 2018-02-08 certified Marketing Application Developer, CA $147,222
A-16314-69778 2017-09-14 denied Patent Engineer, CA $83,845
A-16309-68537 2017-08-23 certified SharePoint Developer, PA $142,500
A-16312-68904 2017-03-16 certified Associate, CA $194,000
A-16312-69058 2017-03-15 certified Associate, CA $170,000
A-16315-70051 2017-03-15 certified Associate, WA $170,000
A-16056-77150 2016-06-27 certified Associate, CA $231,000

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

  • South Korea 8
  • Canada 5
  • China 3
  • India 3
  • Bangladesh 1
  • Brazil 1

Worker's education

  • Other 14
  • Master's 7
  • Doctorate 2
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 19
  • F-1 3
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 2
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 1
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (TOP-TIER LAW SCHOOL) 1
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • LAW 14
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE 1
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES 1
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 1

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 Lawyers, 10 of 14. 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 14 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 3,353. 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 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 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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