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PERM sponsor, #72 of 70,985 by filings

HCL America, Inc.

HCL America, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 6, 2026. HCL America, Inc. has 3 PERM cases waiting with DOL, all of them on hold.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 50% of its filings
Main worksite
Frisco, TX · 30% of its filings
Industry
Other Computer Related Services · NAICS 541519

Waiting on a case with HCL America, Inc.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 477 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

478

#72 of 70,985

Certified

468

9 denied

Approval

98.1%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$126,402

offered, per year

Median days

461

5 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 420 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

3

of 420 tracked cases. The other 417 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed October 6, 2026.

Where those 3 are standing

APPLICATION ON HOLD
3100%

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 420 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 420, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 1 DOL certified 18 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. HCL America, Inc.

    median of 20 decisions in the last 90 days

    299 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,592 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
478 published
3 pending
$126,402 median, n=478
Prevailing wage requests
139 published
1 pending
$104,125 median, n=138
H-1B labor condition applications
24,301 published
17 pending
$101,379 median, n=24,290

Its median H-1B wage is $101,379 across 24,290 LCAs, 19.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $126,402 across 478 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; 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 HCL America, Inc., 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: 24,301 LCAs filed by HCL America, Inc., 23,751 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

9,767 positions for new employment, 2,050 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 9,767 · 29%
  • Change of employer 7e 2,050 · 6%
  • Continuing 7b 8,666 · 26%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 13,268 · 39%

Shares of the 33,747 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 1,502 · 6%
  • Level II 10,959 · 46%
  • Level III 7,806 · 33%
  • Level IV 3,483 · 15%

Shares of the 23,750 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; 1 of 23,751 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 21,922 of 21,922 LCAs, and a willful violator on 16 of 24,245. 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 24,242 · E-3 (Australia) 54 · H-1B1 (Chile) 3 · 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

    98.1% of 477 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 20% 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 14,051 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    4,021 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.0% of 5,060 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 4% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    41% of 5,060 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 57% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.2% of 6,796 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 45% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 16 LCAs.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

98.1%ahead of 20%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

461 daysahead of 55%

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 273 and 2,012 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
461 days

This one sits 1 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 72 of 70,985 by volume: 71 filed at least as many filings, and 70,913 filed no more.

Just above
PRESTIGIOUS PLACEMENT, INC 487 filings
Just below
DoorDash, Inc. 472 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 Computer Systems Analysts, 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

Computer Systems Analysts

SOC 15-1211.00 · 238 filings, 50% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 402 of 478 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

Other Computer Related Services

NAICS 541519 · 478 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 145
  • New Jersey 114
  • California 100
  • North Carolina 87
  • Washington 32
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 5 states cover 478 of 478 filings.

Where the work is

  • Frisco, TX 145
  • Jersey City, NJ 114
  • Cary, NC 87
  • Santa Clara, CA 73
  • Redmond, WA 32
  • Sunnyvale, CA 26
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 477 of 478 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 472 filings · 99.2% approved
  2. Fragomen, Del Ray, Bernson Loewy, LLP 6 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 478 of 478 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    115 cases

  2. The Star-Ledger

    91 cases

  3. The Mercury News

    77 cases

  4. The News & Observer

    41 cases

  5. The Charlotte Observer

    33 cases

  6. The Seattle Times

    25 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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    383 cases

  2. Private employment firms

    383 cases

  3. Job search websites

    381 cases

  4. The employer's website

    2 cases

  5. Trade or professional organizations

    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

    0.8%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    14%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    36%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    49%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.3%
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

5,888 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 896.

  • 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 66 4 1
FY2009 28 0 2
FY2010 44 2 1
FY2011 29 1 4
FY2012 63 11 7
FY2013 177 9 19
FY2014 135 2 8
FY2015 307 2 16
FY2016 644 0 9
FY2017 813 1 19
FY2018 880 0 16
FY2019 323 2 7
FY2020 559 1 9
FY2021 408 1 1
FY2022 447 1 2
FY2023 328 0 1
FY2024 86 9 1
FY2025 323 0 0
FY2026 59 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 4,472. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22217-01114 2023-09-22 certified Mechanical Engineer, NC $71,947
A-22259-22505 2023-09-22 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, NC $81,952
A-22245-15994 2023-09-14 certified Project Manager, NC $77,584
A-22232-09155 2023-09-14 certified Project Manager, NC $77,584
A-22231-09108 2023-09-14 certified Project Manager, NC $77,584
A-22217-00775 2023-09-14 certified Project Manager, NC $77,584
A-22244-15465 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22244-15374 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
The other 17
A-22244-15310 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22240-13149 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22231-09140 2023-09-14 certified Senior Systems Analyst, NJ $92,560
A-22231-09104 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22229-07102 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22224-04764 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22215-99193 2023-09-14 certified Senior Programmer Analysts, CA $110,094
A-22224-04871 2023-08-29 certified Project Manager, TX $76,856
A-22216-00654 2023-08-29 certified Project Manager, TX $76,856
A-22244-15324 2023-08-29 certified Senior Software Engineer, WA $119,350
A-22245-16029 2023-08-29 certified Business Analysts, TX $67,475
A-22241-13208 2023-08-29 certified Systems Analysts, TX $67,475
A-22236-10936 2023-08-29 certified Business Analysts, TX $67,475
A-22232-09149 2023-08-29 certified Systems Analysts, TX $67,475
A-22214-98394 2023-08-29 certified Business Analyst, NC $64,979
A-22236-10877 2023-08-28 certified Senior Sales Engineer, NC $106,974
A-22272-30335 2023-08-28 certified Mechanical Engineer, NJ $84,885

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 4,439
  • Canada 6
  • China 5
  • Nepal 4
  • United Kingdom 3
  • Egypt 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 2,870
  • Master's 1,189
  • Other 412
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,943
  • L-1 463
  • NOT IN USA 30
  • H-4 9
  • F-1 6
  • PAROLEE 6

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 407
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 259
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 230
  • MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY 135
  • BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 134
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 133

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 743
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 672
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 451
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 366
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 288
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 223

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 Computer Systems Analysts, 238 of 478. 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 478 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 72. 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 477 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 23, 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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