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PERM sponsor, #170 of 70,985 by filings

Lam Research Corporation

Lam Research Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 57 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 20, 2026. Lam Research Corporation has 38 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Materials Engineers · 14% of its filings
Main worksite
Fremont, CA · 68% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing · NAICS 334413

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Filings

223

#170 of 70,985

Certified

207

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$135,176

offered, per year

Median days

484

18 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 268 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

38

of 268 tracked cases. The other 230 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 21, 2024, 23 months ago.

Where those 38 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
3592%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
38%

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 268 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 268, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 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.

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. Lam Research Corporation

    median of 18 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 31,475 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 79,834 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)
223 published
38 pending
$135,176 median, n=223
Prevailing wage requests
242 published
11 pending
$133,255 median, n=220
H-1B labor condition applications
1,519 published
4 pending
$124,197 median, n=1,518

Its median H-1B wage is $124,197 across 1,518 LCAs, 8.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $135,176 across 223 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 38 pending PERM cases, 3 (7.9%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 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, read under the 2 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 Lam Research Corporation, 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: 1,519 LCAs filed by Lam Research Corporation, 1,464 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

523 positions for new employment, 308 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 523 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 308 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 362 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 98 · 7%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 180 · 12%

Shares of the 1,471 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 118 · 8%
  • Level II 302 · 21%
  • Level III 495 · 35%
  • Level IV 511 · 36%

Shares of the 1,426 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; 38 of 1,464 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 1,374 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,512. 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 1,511 · E-3 (Australia) 3 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 5. 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 207 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    57 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,027 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    439 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    18% of 507 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

    60% of 483 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 75% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.1% of 546 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 56% 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

484 daysahead of 22%

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 171 and 323 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
484 days

This one sits 22 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 170 of 70,985 by volume: 169 filed at least as many filings, and 70,815 filed no more.

Just above
Block, Inc. 223 filings
Just below
Cruise LLC 219 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 Materials Engineers, 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

Materials Engineers

SOC 17-2131.00 · 31 filings, 14% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 122 of 223 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

Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing

NAICS 334413 · 220 filings

  • Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing 3334131
  • Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (Census group 33441) 3344141
  • Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 5416111
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 155
  • Oregon 59
  • Massachusetts 3
  • Arizona 2
  • Texas 2
  • Idaho 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 222 of 223 filings.

Where the work is

  • Fremont, CA 151
  • Tualatin, OR 39
  • Hillsboro, OR 20
  • Livermore, CA 4
  • Waltham, MA 3
  • Austin, TX 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 219 of 223 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vialto Partners LLP 223 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 223 of 223 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    111 cases

  2. The Oregonian

    52 cases

  3. The Arizona Republic

    2 cases

  4. Austin American-Statesman

    2 cases

  5. Boston Sunday Globe

    1 cases

  6. Idaho Statesman

    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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    170 cases

  2. Job search websites

    169 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    161 cases

  4. On-campus recruiting

    4 cases

  5. Trade or professional organizations

    4 cases

  6. Employee referral programs

    2 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

    5.9%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    31%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    33%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    31%

  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

736 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 100.

  • 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 13 1 1
FY2009 1 1 0
FY2010 24 2 0
FY2011 8 1 1
FY2012 18 3 0
FY2013 21 1 2
FY2014 18 1 1
FY2015 39 0 1
FY2016 35 0 1
FY2017 36 2 1
FY2018 44 1 1
FY2019 40 0 0
FY2020 21 0 1
FY2021 63 3 0
FY2022 49 0 0
FY2023 55 0 2
FY2024 54 0 8
FY2025 95 0 5
FY2026 58 0 3

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 355. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22263-24868 2023-09-29 certified Product Marketing Engineer, CA $200,850
A-22139-57865 2023-09-21 certified Mechanical Engineer, OR $128,843
A-22139-57914 2023-09-21 certified Manager, Order Fulfillment, OR $97,240
A-22263-24963 2023-09-12 certified Electrical Engineer, CA $134,576
A-22263-24839 2023-08-31 certified Mechanical Design Engineer, CA $154,500
A-22102-39635 2023-08-10 certified Business Systems Analyst, CA $146,682
A-22094-35277 2023-08-03 withdrawn Business Systems Analyst, CA $146,682
A-22180-80864 2023-07-28 certified Business Systems Analyst, CA $158,363
The other 17
A-22224-05030 2023-06-30 certified Manager, EPG Business Development, CA $172,010
A-22227-05653 2023-06-30 certified Supply Chain Business Manager, CA $136,490
A-22214-98584 2023-06-16 certified Test Engineer, OR $90,620
A-22066-19894 2023-06-14 certified Program Manager, CA $114,722
A-22118-47400 2023-06-12 certified Software Engineer, CA $167,710
A-22137-56359 2023-06-12 certified Software Engineer, CA $167,710
A-22220-01839 2023-05-25 certified Regional Product Support Data Scientist, CA $174,335
A-22217-00829 2023-05-19 certified Supply Chain Business Manager, OR $97,478
A-22161-70024 2023-05-04 certified Product Engineer – Manufacturing, CA $120,510
A-22175-77925 2023-04-28 certified Operations Business Analyst, CA $140,213
A-22188-84696 2023-04-13 certified Key Account Technologist, OR $148,526
A-22187-84159 2023-03-31 certified Product Engineer – Process Control, CA $145,000
A-22187-84026 2023-03-31 certified Technical Program Manager, OR $118,450
A-22137-56603 2023-03-29 certified Electrical Engineer, CA $144,726
A-22109-42565 2023-03-29 withdrawn Strategic Commodity Manager, CA $182,831
A-22158-67739 2023-03-23 certified Product Engineer – Process Control, CA $145,000
A-22159-68305 2023-03-22 certified Product Engineer – Manufacturing, CA $120,510

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 145
  • China 79
  • South Korea 46
  • Taiwan 25
  • Japan 7
  • Canada 5

Worker's education

  • Master's 140
  • Doctorate 139
  • Bachelor's 65
  • Associate's 6
  • Other 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 252
  • L-1 92
  • O-1 5
  • F-1 4
  • L-2 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 10
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 7
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 6
  • PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 6
  • SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 61
  • MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 31
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 30
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 27
  • PHYSICS 21
  • CHEMISTRY 11

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 Materials Engineers, 31 of 223. 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 223 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 170. 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 207 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 22, 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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