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PERM sponsor, #1,515 of 70,985 by filings

Kite Pharma Inc.

Kite Pharma Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 10 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 21, 2026. Kite Pharma Inc. has 9 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Data Scientists · 11% of its filings
Main worksite
Foster City, CA · 50% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) · NAICS 541714

Waiting on a case with Kite Pharma Inc.?

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Too few cases for a rate

23 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

28

#1,515 of 70,985

Certified

23

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 23 decided

Median wage

$159,650

offered, per year

Median days

452

14 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 37 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

9

of 37 tracked cases. The other 28 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 10, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 9 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
9100%

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 37 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 37, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 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. Every employer

    median of 28,776 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 80,916 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)
28 published
9 pending
$159,650 median, n=28
Prevailing wage requests
49 published
7 pending
$145,928 median, n=45
H-1B labor condition applications
349 published
0 pending
$119,360 median, n=349

Its median H-1B wage is $119,360 across 349 LCAs, 25.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $159,650 across 28 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 Kite Pharma 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: 349 LCAs filed by Kite Pharma Inc., 345 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

751 positions for new employment, 746 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 751 · 22%
  • Change of employer 7e 746 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 738 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 604 · 17%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 5 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 613 · 18%

Shares of the 3,452 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 10 · 4%
  • Level II 67 · 24%
  • Level III 81 · 29%
  • Level IV 118 · 43%

Shares of the 276 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; 69 of 345 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 320 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 339. 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 338 · E-3 (Australia) 11. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    10 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 90% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    85 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    18% of 332 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 60% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    75% of 80 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 89% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.8% of 82 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 52% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

452 daysmiddle of 23 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 23 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 27 and 29 filings.

Their median wait
459 days
This one
452 days

This one sits 7 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 1,515 of 70,985 by volume: 1,514 filed at least as many filings, and 69,470 filed no more.

Just above
Tarkett USA, Inc. 28 filings
Just below
Boston College 28 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 Data Scientists, 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

Data Scientists

SOC 15-2051.00 · 3 filings, 11% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 13 of 28 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

Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)

NAICS 541714 · 14 filings

  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences 5417112
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Census group 54171) 5417122
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 25
  • North Carolina 2
  • Maryland 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 3 states cover 28 of 28 filings.

Where the work is

  • Foster City, CA 14
  • Santa Monica, CA 8
  • Raleigh, NC 2
  • El Segundo, CA 1
  • Emeryville, CA 1
  • Frederick, MD 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 27 of 28 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 28 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 28 of 28 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    13 cases

  2. Los Angeles Times

    9 cases

  3. East Bay Times

    1 cases

  4. The Frederick News-Post

    1 cases

  5. The News & Observer

    1 cases

  6. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    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. Job search websites

    26 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    26 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    18 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    8 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

    12%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    12%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    12%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    65%

  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 2019

67 PERM decisions from FY2019 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 15.

  • 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
FY2019 1 0 0
FY2020 8 0 0
FY2021 8 0 0
FY2022 13 0 0
FY2023 9 0 0
FY2024 2 0 0
FY2025 7 0 4
FY2026 14 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 39. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22237-12313 2023-07-25 certified Sr. IT Business Systems Analyst, MD $157,061
A-22199-90448 2023-07-06 certified Sr. Manager, Validation, CA $140,000
A-22235-10671 2023-07-05 certified Manager, Supply Chain, CA $148,658
A-22181-81806 2023-05-15 certified Facilities Engineer III, CA $115,003
A-22042-10592 2023-02-08 certified Manager, Statistical Programming, CA $133,521
A-22068-21626 2023-01-09 certified Manager, Statistical Programming, CA $149,200
A-21351-88256 2023-01-06 certified Process Engineer II, CA $101,566
A-21095-70061 2022-12-08 certified Research Associate, Cell Biology, CA $75,400
The other 17
A-22033-06621 2022-10-19 certified Associate Director, Market Research, CA $231,878
A-21356-90097 2022-09-30 certified Sr. Process Engineer III, CA $170,419
A-22014-98513 2022-09-23 certified Manager, Statistical Programming, CA $152,715
A-21302-65783 2022-09-19 certified Associate Director, Cell Biology, CA $206,493
A-21315-72027 2022-07-26 certified Associate Director, Medical Affairs, CA $190,000
A-21291-59780 2022-05-16 certified Senior Statistical Programmer, CA $132,734
A-21183-11554 2022-05-03 certified Sr. Manager, Statistical Programming, CA $168,552
A-21197-18702 2022-03-29 certified Senior Manager, Supply Chain, MD $131,000
A-21215-26660 2022-02-07 certified Manager, Statistical Programming, CA $140,433
A-21187-12648 2021-12-23 certified Senior Statistical Programmer, CA $127,450
A-21161-99630 2021-12-02 certified Quality Control Analytical Specialist II, MD $93,496
A-21124-81772 2021-11-04 certified Clinical Trials Manager, CA $123,898
A-21095-70062 2021-11-02 certified Manager, Clinical Programming, CA $140,084
A-21126-83078 2021-10-29 certified Manager, Clinical Programming, CA $148,949
A-21070-60835 2021-08-16 certified Sr. Research Associate I, Process Development, CA $85,315
A-20355-35189 2021-07-16 certified Associate Director, Pharmacovigilance & Epidemiology, CA $165,000
A-21025-45557 2021-07-14 certified Process Engineer I, CA $73,044

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 29
  • Canada 4
  • China 3
  • Hong Kong 1
  • Italy 1
  • Switzerland 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 25
  • Bachelor's 7
  • Doctorate 7

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 36
  • L-1 1
  • O-1 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 3
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS 1
  • EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 1
  • GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY 1
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • CHEMISTRY 5
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • BIOTECHNOLOGY 3
  • BIOSCIENCE 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2

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 #1,515 counts this page's cases only.

2 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 Data Scientists, 3 of 28. 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 28 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 1,515. 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 23 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 19, 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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