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PERM sponsor, #126 of 70,985 by filings

INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC

INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC sponsors green cards: it filed 77 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 8, 2026. INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC has 70 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 15% of its filings
Main worksite
Sunnyvale, CA · 89% of its filings
Industry
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing · NAICS 33911

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Filings

284

#126 of 70,985

Certified

273

2 denied

Approval

99.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$139,080

offered, per year

Median days

460

6 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 337 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

70

of 337 tracked cases. The other 267 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 13, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 70 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
6491%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
69%

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 337 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 337, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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. INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC

    median of 13 decisions in the last 90 days

    304 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,678 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 80,135 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
284 published
70 pending
$139,080 median, n=284
Prevailing wage requests
332 published
19 pending
$143,874 median, n=315
H-1B labor condition applications
1,531 published
4 pending
$144,269 median, n=1,526

Its median H-1B wage is $144,269 across 1,526 LCAs, 3.7% higher than its median PERM wage of $139,080 across 284 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 70 pending PERM cases, 6 (8.6%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 6 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 INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, 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: 1,531 LCAs filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC, 1,430 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

230 positions for new employment, 470 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 230 · 16%
  • Change of employer 7e 470 · 33%
  • Continuing 7b 299 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 329 · 23%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 105 · 7%

Shares of the 1,430 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 105 · 9%
  • Level II 301 · 25%
  • Level III 353 · 29%
  • Level IV 440 · 37%

Shares of the 1,199 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; 231 of 1,430 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 1,445 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,523. 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 1,523 · E-3 (Australia) 7 · H-1B1 (Chile) 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

    99.3% of 275 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 28% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    77 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    472 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    23% of 545 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 72% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    64% of 408 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 79% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.1% of 625 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 43% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.3%ahead of 27%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

460 daysahead of 56%

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 202 and 522 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
460 days

This one sits 2 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 126 of 70,985 by volume: 125 filed at least as many filings, and 70,859 filed no more.

Just above
The MathWorks, Inc. 286 filings
Just below
Safeway Inc. 279 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 · 43 filings, 15% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 134 of 284 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

Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

NAICS 33911 · 284 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 255
  • Georgia 18
  • North Carolina 6
  • Virginia 3
  • Arizona 1
  • Connecticut 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 6 states cover 284 of 284 filings.

Where the work is

  • Sunnyvale, CA 253
  • Peachtree Corners, GA 15
  • Raleigh, NC 6
  • Blacksburg, VA 3
  • Norcross, GA 3
  • Orange, CT 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 281 of 284 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Graham Adair, Inc. 284 filings · 99.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 284 of 284 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    204 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    15 cases

  3. Raleigh News & Observer

    4 cases

  4. The Roanoke Times

    3 cases

  5. The Arizona Republic

    1 cases

  6. The Mercury News (Bay Area New Grou

    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. Employee referral programs

    232 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    232 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    231 cases

  4. Job search websites

    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

    57%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    29%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    9.1%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    5.2%

  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

605 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 127.

  • 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 1
FY2012 6 0 0
FY2013 4 0 0
FY2014 11 0 0
FY2015 5 0 0
FY2016 23 1 0
FY2017 15 0 0
FY2018 30 0 2
FY2019 23 1 1
FY2020 36 0 0
FY2021 59 0 1
FY2022 56 0 0
FY2023 43 0 0
FY2024 74 0 9
FY2025 126 1 0
FY2026 73 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 291. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22159-68515 2023-09-15 certified Senior Product Security Analyst, CA $170,248
A-22187-84048 2023-08-24 certified Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Operations, CA $181,688
A-22210-97271 2023-08-23 certified Electrical Engineer, CA $172,245
A-22264-25855 2023-07-31 certified Insights Analyst, NC $105,000
A-22216-00326 2023-07-31 certified Software Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22206-94473 2023-07-26 certified Associate Manager - Applications Operations & Delivery, CA $170,885
A-22237-11929 2023-07-10 certified Regulatory Affairs Specialist, CA $98,000
A-22203-93551 2023-07-05 certified Regulatory Post Market Surveillance Specialist, CA $76,773
The other 17
A-22221-02834 2023-06-20 certified Senior Business Analyst, CA $157,851
A-22217-00806 2023-06-14 certified Senior UI Software Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22203-93403 2023-06-06 certified Sr. Vision Engineer – Laser Services, CA $157,269
A-22146-61915 2023-06-02 certified FPGA Design Engineer, CA $126,131
A-22214-98684 2023-05-25 certified Data Operations Analyst, NC $115,898
A-22193-87211 2023-04-19 certified Quality Engineering, CA $157,269
A-22131-53704 2023-04-07 certified Indirect Purchasing Systems Analyst, CA $110,094
A-22189-85312 2023-04-04 certified Sr. Project Manager, CA $152,859
A-22154-65914 2023-03-27 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $140,400
A-22154-65824 2023-03-27 certified Manager, MP Instruments & Accessories Test Engineering, CA $189,883
A-22166-72777 2023-03-22 certified Senior Design Control Systems Engineer, CA $125,900
A-22172-75971 2023-03-16 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22145-61188 2023-03-06 certified Systems Analyst, CA $124,000
A-22145-61019 2023-03-06 certified IT Analyst, CA $110,094
A-22139-57917 2023-02-22 certified Regulatory Post Market Surveillance Specialist, CA $76,773
A-22131-53905 2023-02-21 certified Supply Demand Planner, CA $96,034
A-22124-50537 2023-02-21 certified Project Design Manager, CA $143,050

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 201
  • China 30
  • Canada 18
  • Israel 4
  • Mexico 4
  • Singapore 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 185
  • Bachelor's 75
  • Doctorate 26
  • Other 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 256
  • TN 13
  • F-1 6
  • O-1 4
  • H-4 3
  • J-2 2

Schools

  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 17
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 10
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 9
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 9
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 7
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 28
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 25
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 20
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 19
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 9
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 8

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 2 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 #126 counts this page's cases only.

13 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, 43 of 284. 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 284 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 126. 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 275 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 21, 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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