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PERM sponsor, #24 of 70,985 by filings

FMR LLC

FMR LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 483 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. FMR LLC has 311 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 61% of its filings
Main worksite
Durham, NC · 41% of its filings
Industry
All Other Financial Investment Activities · NAICS 52399

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Filings

1,224

#24 of 70,985

Certified

1,188

1 denied

Approval

99.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$135,000

offered, per year

Median days

473

7 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 1,515 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

311

of 1,515 tracked cases. The other 1,204 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 2, 2024, 32 months ago.

Where those 311 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
30698%

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

BALCA APPEALS
52%

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.

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 1,515 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,515, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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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

  1. October 9 DOL certified 18 of its cases
  2. October 3 DOL certified 18 of its cases
  3. September 9 DOL certified 20 of its cases
  4. September 4 DOL certified 20 of its cases
  5. September 3 DOL certified 26 of its cases
  6. September 2 DOL certified 21 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. FMR LLC

    median of 145 decisions in the last 90 days

    298 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
1,224 published
311 pending
$135,000 median, n=1,223
Prevailing wage requests
2,151 published
245 pending
$133,411 median, n=2,095
H-1B labor condition applications
293 published
0 pending
$100,818 median, n=293

Its median H-1B wage is $100,818 across 293 LCAs, 25.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $135,000 across 1,223 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 311 pending PERM cases, 5 (1.6%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 5 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, read under the 6 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 FMR 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: 293 LCAs filed by FMR LLC, 290 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

79 positions for new employment, 48 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 79 · 14%
  • Change of employer 7e 48 · 8%
  • Continuing 7b 30 · 5%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 391 · 68%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 30 · 5%

Shares of the 578 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 24 · 9%
  • Level II 116 · 44%
  • Level III 75 · 28%
  • Level IV 50 · 19%

Shares of the 265 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; 25 of 290 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 December 11, 2024. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 260 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 292. 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 292 · E-3 (Australia) 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

    99.9% of 1,189 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 33% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    483 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    9 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 69% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    26% of 23 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 77% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    57% of 21 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 73% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

Approval rate

99.9%ahead of 33%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

473 daysahead of 38%

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 83 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 424 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
460 days
This one
473 days

This one sits 13 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 24 of 70,985 by volume: 23 filed at least as many filings, and 70,961 filed no more.

Just above
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation 1,236 filings
Just below
LinkedIn Corporation 1,211 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 · 748 filings, 61% of everything they file · 99.9% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 970 of 1,224 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

All Other Financial Investment Activities

NAICS 52399 · 1,215 filings

  • Ambulance Services 6219106
  • Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities 5239993
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

  • North Carolina 500
  • Texas 340
  • Massachusetts 188
  • New Hampshire 88
  • Rhode Island 43
  • New Jersey 30
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 6 states cover 1,189 of 1,224 filings.

Where the work is

  • Durham, NC 499
  • Westlake, TX 333
  • Boston, MA 188
  • Merrimack, NH 88
  • Smithfield, RI 42
  • Jersey City, NJ 29
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,179 of 1,224 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Seyfarth Shaw LLP 784 filings · 99.9% approved
  2. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 434 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. Law offices of George J Shalhoub 6 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,224 of 1,224 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Raleigh News & Observer

    360 cases

  2. The Dallas Morning News

    290 cases

  3. The Boston Globe

    169 cases

  4. New Hampshire Union Leader

    60 cases

  5. Providence Journal

    33 cases

  6. The New York Times

    26 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

    979 cases

  2. The employer's website

    979 cases

  3. Job search websites

    979 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

    3.8%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    12%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    21%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    60%

  7. Over 180 days

    3.4%
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

2,872 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 522.

  • 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 38 3 5
FY2009 25 3 6
FY2010 76 6 3
FY2011 57 0 0
FY2012 82 2 4
FY2013 43 1 1
FY2014 111 3 3
FY2015 131 1 1
FY2016 178 2 1
FY2017 149 2 1
FY2018 186 0 0
FY2019 94 0 0
FY2020 66 0 1
FY2021 122 0 2
FY2022 91 0 2
FY2023 142 0 4
FY2024 258 0 6
FY2025 520 1 1
FY2026 410 0 28

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 1,043. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22228-06322 2023-09-26 certified Principal Software Engineer/Developer, TX $124,450
A-22231-08679 2023-09-26 certified Principal Software Engineer/Developer, MA $110,000
A-22172-75462 2023-09-26 certified Director, Customer and Account Management, TX $128,059
A-22260-23279 2023-09-22 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $105,000
A-22229-07758 2023-09-22 certified Manager, Quality Assurance, TX $80,122
A-22225-05413 2023-09-19 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $102,000
A-22228-06320 2023-09-19 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, TX $102,675
A-22160-69508 2023-09-19 certified Senior Systems Services and Support Analyst, NH $96,825
The other 17
A-22208-95471 2023-09-13 certified Senior Manager, Product Management, NC $115,918
A-22172-75680 2023-09-13 certified Project Manager, NC $104,050
A-22171-74662 2023-09-13 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, UT $93,000
A-22228-06316 2023-08-28 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $105,975
A-22209-96247 2023-08-28 certified Principal Software Engineer/Developer, NC $113,000
A-22172-75331 2023-08-25 certified Director, Data Analytics and Insights, RI $145,000
A-22209-96152 2023-08-25 certified Principal Systems Engineer, NC $125,382
A-22207-94728 2023-08-25 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $107,100
A-22224-05022 2023-08-25 certified AM Quantitative Analyst I, MA $105,000
A-22224-04973 2023-08-24 certified Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $105,975
A-22085-31203 2023-08-23 certified Principal Network Engineer, NC $116,325
A-22171-74802 2023-08-23 certified Director, Technology Management - Software Engineering, NH $145,325
A-22082-29380 2023-08-23 certified Director, Product Management, MA $140,000
A-22172-75428 2023-08-23 certified Director, Software Engineering, NC $153,419
A-22257-20965 2023-08-21 withdrawn Senior Software Engineer/Developer, NC $107,100
A-22171-74695 2023-08-15 certified Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, NH $115,300
A-22145-60592 2023-08-15 certified Director, Software Engineering, TX $132,850

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 919
  • China 52
  • Canada 17
  • Ireland 9
  • Nepal 7
  • Sri Lanka 5

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 514
  • Master's 506
  • None 18
  • Doctorate 3
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 944
  • L-1 84
  • H-4 6
  • TN 4
  • PAROLEE 2
  • H-1B1 1

Schools

  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 49
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 46
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 43
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 30
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 18
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 17

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 207
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 177
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 111
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 51
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 43
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 39

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, 748 of 1,224. 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 1,224 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 24. 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 1,189 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 NC. 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 18, 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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