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PERM sponsor, #256 of 70,985 by filings

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

Goldman Sachs Bank USA sponsors green cards: it filed 82 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 17, 2026. Goldman Sachs Bank USA has 75 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 43% of its filings
Main worksite
Richardson, TX · 33% of its filings
Industry
Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation · NAICS 52315

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Filings

147

#256 of 70,985

Certified

147

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$147,000

offered, per year

Median days

488

22 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 226 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

75

of 226 tracked cases. The other 151 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 26, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 75 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
7499%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
11%

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.

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 226 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 226, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 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.

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. Goldman Sachs Bank USA

    median of 8 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 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)
147 published
75 pending
$147,000 median, n=147
Prevailing wage requests
172 published
13 pending
$105,997 median, n=171
H-1B labor condition applications
2,003 published
4 pending
$121,000 median, n=1,998

Its median H-1B wage is $121,000 across 1,998 LCAs, 17.7% lower than its median PERM wage of $147,000 across 147 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 75 pending PERM cases, 1 (1.3%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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 Goldman Sachs Bank USA, 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: 2,003 LCAs filed by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, 1,986 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

15,842 positions for new employment, 3,723 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 15,842 · 59%
  • Change of employer 7e 3,723 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 3,908 · 14%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 18 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 4 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 3,505 · 13%

Shares of the 26,991 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 490 · 26%
  • Level II 723 · 38%
  • Level III 466 · 25%
  • Level IV 211 · 11%

Shares of the 1,890 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; 96 of 1,986 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,846 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,982. 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 1,981 · E-3 (Australia) 19 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · 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 approval rate

    100.0% of 147 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    82 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    635 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 23,701 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 45% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    43% of 645 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 59% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.9% of 467 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

488 daysahead of 16%

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 117 and 194 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
488 days

This one sits 20 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 256 of 70,985 by volume: 255 filed at least as many filings, and 70,729 filed no more.

Just above
Delight LI Management LLC 148 filings
Just below
Rubrik, Inc. 146 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 · 63 filings, 43% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 107 of 147 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

Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation

NAICS 52315 · 116 filings

  • Investment Banking and Securities Dealing 523110, 5231131
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 85
  • New York 33
  • Delaware 14
  • Illinois 5
  • Utah 5
  • California 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 6 states cover 144 of 147 filings.

Where the work is

  • Richardson, TX 48
  • Dallas, TX 37
  • New York, NY 33
  • Wilmington, DE 14
  • Chicago, IL 5
  • Salt Lake City, UT 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 142 of 147 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 147 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 147 of 147 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    78 cases

  2. The New York Times

    29 cases

  3. Wilmington News Journal

    10 cases

  4. Chicago Tribune

    5 cases

  5. The Salt Lake Tribune

    5 cases

  6. The Star-Ledger

    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. Employee referral programs

    131 cases

  2. The employer's website

    131 cases

  3. Job search websites

    130 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    1 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

    20%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    52%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    21%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    6.9%

  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 2010

321 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 84.

  • 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
FY2010 3 0 0
FY2011 0 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 5 0 0
FY2017 8 0 1
FY2018 14 0 0
FY2019 26 0 1
FY2020 25 0 0
FY2021 20 0 0
FY2022 24 0 0
FY2023 43 0 0
FY2024 16 0 0
FY2025 84 0 0
FY2026 47 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 167. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22287-39395 2023-09-25 certified Associate, UT $84,900
A-22277-32799 2023-09-21 certified Vice President, DE $150,000
A-22127-51856 2023-09-21 certified Vice President, NY $157,477
A-22266-26993 2023-09-14 certified Associate, DE $129,000
A-22174-76853 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, TX $147,000
A-22140-58183 2023-09-13 certified Vice President, NY $154,000
A-22277-32814 2023-09-11 certified Associate, NY $175,000
A-22188-84324 2023-09-06 certified Associate, TX $135,000
The other 17
A-22244-15363 2023-08-31 certified Associate, DE $130,000
A-22216-99849 2023-08-28 certified Vice President, UT $158,000
A-22186-83114 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, TX $162,000
A-22165-71182 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, TX $134,992
A-22171-74679 2023-08-23 certified Associate, TX $138,000
A-22140-58359 2023-08-23 certified Vice President, TX $184,683
A-22180-80552 2023-08-21 certified Vice President, TX $135,000
A-22168-73733 2023-08-21 certified Vice President, TX $134,992
A-22168-73754 2023-08-21 certified Vice President, CA $191,000
A-22186-83116 2023-08-18 certified Vice President, TX $165,000
A-22186-83090 2023-08-15 certified Vice President, TX $138,000
A-22146-61399 2023-08-15 certified Vice President, NY $154,000
A-22173-76089 2023-08-01 certified Associate, TX $126,402
A-22160-68873 2023-08-01 certified Associate, TX $107,400
A-22185-82903 2023-07-27 certified Vice President, TX $135,000
A-22171-74720 2023-07-27 certified Associate, TX $133,000
A-22171-74641 2023-07-25 certified Associate, TX $127,000

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 125
  • China 23
  • South Korea 5
  • Canada 2
  • Nigeria 2
  • Ethiopia 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 102
  • Bachelor's 59
  • Doctorate 4
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 159
  • L-1 6
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 8
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 5
  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY 5
  • STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 4
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 4

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 38
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 20
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 11
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 7
  • FINANCE 5
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 5

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 #256 counts this page's cases only.

990 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 Software Developers, 63 of 147. 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 147 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 256. 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 147 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 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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