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PERM sponsor, #17 of 70,985 by filings

Google LLC

Google LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 15 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 25, 2026. Google LLC has 15 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers, Applications · 72% of its filings
Main worksite
Mountain View, CA · 55% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services · NAICS 541512

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Filings

1,617

#17 of 70,985

Certified

1,608

4 denied

Approval

99.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$119,350

offered, per year

Median days

347

119 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 16 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

15

of 16 tracked cases. The other 1 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 13, 2026, 3 months ago.

Where those 15 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
15100%

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 16 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 16, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 17, 2026

Follow Google 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-100-26268-260726 Platforms and Devices Senior Silicon Engineer - SoC Validati filed 2026-09-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26267-258409 Senior Silicon Engineer- P&D- (gCPU), Design Verification filed 2026-09-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26267-258673 Software Engineer filed 2026-09-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26252-225218 Senior Software Engineer filed 2026-09-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26240-202291 Software Engineer filed 2026-08-28 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26238-194520 Senior Software Engineer filed 2026-08-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26226-170644 Senior Silicon Engineer- P&D- (gCPU), Design Verification filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26226-170616 Senior Silicon Engineer- P&D- (gCPU), Design Verification filed 2026-08-14 · 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.

Layoff notices filed by Google LLC

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • August 5, 2026, layoff, permanent, 52 employees, Various locations in Washington, effective September 6, 2026. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 28,613 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 80,747 cases, and would be decided around March 14, 2027 (between February 22, 2027 and April 23, 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)
1,617 published
15 pending
$119,350 median, n=1,617
Prevailing wage requests
1,527 published
987 pending
$176,134 median, n=1,510
H-1B labor condition applications
66,768 published
370 pending
$167,000 median, n=66,709

Its median H-1B wage is $167,000 across 66,709 LCAs, 40% higher than its median PERM wage of $119,350 across 1,617 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 Google 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: 66,768 LCAs filed by Google LLC, 65,198 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

29,212 positions for new employment, 11,013 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 29,212 · 44%
  • Change of employer 7e 11,013 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 12,560 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 85 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 23 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 13,734 · 21%

Shares of the 66,485 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 301 · 1%
  • Level II 33,107 · 60%
  • Level III 18,256 · 33%
  • Level IV 3,862 · 7%

Shares of the 55,526 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; 9,672 of 65,198 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 29, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 62,670 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 65,361. 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 65,303 · E-3 (Australia) 1,082 · H-1B1 (Chile) 169 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 214. 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

    99.8% of 1,612 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    15 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 94% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    15,959 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

    17% of 18,925 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 58% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    39% of 13,292 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 56% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.8% of 14,269 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 53% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.8%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

347 daysahead of 99.1%

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 76 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 451 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
347 days

This one sits 114 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 17 of 70,985 by volume: 16 filed at least as many filings, and 70,968 filed no more.

Just above
South Georgia Pecan Company 1,718 filings
Just below
Deloitte Consulting LLP 1,527 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, Applications, 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, Applications

SOC 15-1132 · 1,158 filings, 72% of everything they file · 99.7% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 1,517 of 1,617 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 Systems Design Services

NAICS 541512 · 1,617 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

  • California 1,043
  • Washington 280
  • New York 171
  • Texas 46
  • Pennsylvania 23
  • Massachusetts 17
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 1,580 of 1,617 filings.

Where the work is

  • Mountain View, CA 892
  • New York, NY 171
  • Kirkland, WA 148
  • Seattle, WA 131
  • San Bruno, CA 59
  • San Francisco, CA 48
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,449 of 1,617 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 1,617 filings · 99.8% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,617 of 1,617 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York 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. The employer's website

    1 cases

  2. Job search websites

    1 cases

  3. 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    100%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

26,074 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 4,473.

  • 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 170 5 1
FY2009 109 1 2
FY2010 288 0 11
FY2011 343 0 9
FY2012 400 8 8
FY2013 300 9 20
FY2014 907 14 24
FY2015 1,450 6 36
FY2016 1,739 7 22
FY2017 1,771 11 10
FY2018 2,241 13 11
FY2019 2,398 15 12
FY2020 2,823 17 23
FY2021 2,932 4 34
FY2022 1,700 26 54
FY2023 4,381 15 77
FY2024 1,607 4 5
FY2025 0 0 0
FY2026 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 20,336. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22264-25995 2023-09-29 certified Interaction Designer, WA $80,000
A-22269-28159 2023-09-29 certified Privacy Engineer, CA $127,000
A-22286-39252 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, PA $80,000
A-22285-38313 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $144,726
A-22280-35826 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22278-33896 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $104,291
A-22278-33607 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, NY $80,000
A-22277-33106 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
The other 17
A-22273-31415 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, MA $119,933
A-22272-31045 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $98,779
A-22271-30141 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $97,760
A-22271-29724 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22271-29713 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22271-29675 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $98,779
A-22271-29651 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $140,920
A-22271-29590 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22269-28118 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $104,291
A-22265-26800 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22265-26557 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22265-26499 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $140,920
A-22265-26420 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $104,291
A-22265-26323 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22264-25878 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $104,291
A-22263-25126 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22263-25080 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477

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

  • China 8,901
  • India 5,510
  • Canada 1,353
  • Taiwan 443
  • South Korea 323
  • Mexico 215

Worker's education

  • Master's 13,110
  • Bachelor's 5,062
  • Doctorate 1,844
  • None 308
  • Other 11
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 14,083
  • F-1 2,946
  • L-1 2,257
  • TN 599
  • E-3 125
  • O-1 97

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 1,457
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 965
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 594
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 399
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 357
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 356

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 7,917
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1,263
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1,017
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 934
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 878
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 445

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 entry 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 #17 counts this page's cases only.

7 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, Applications, 1,158 of 1,617. 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 1,617 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 17. 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 1,612 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 the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 17, 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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