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PERM sponsor, #84 of 70,985 by filings

Lucid USA, Inc.

Lucid USA, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 96 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on July 9, 2026. Lucid USA, Inc. has 84 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Automotive Engineers · 17% of its filings
Main worksite
Newark, CA · 85% of its filings
Industry
Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing · NAICS 336110

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Filings

424

#84 of 70,985

Certified

412

2 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$154,000

offered, per year

Median days

455

11 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 477 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

84

of 477 tracked cases. The other 393 have been decided.

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

Where those 84 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
8298%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
22%

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 477 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 477, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 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.

  • G-100-26190-089944 Sr. Technical Project Manager, Battery Module filed 2026-07-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26168-026094 Sr. Supplier Industrialization Engineer- Interior Cabin Trim filed 2026-06-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26110-813216 Manager, Stamping Equipment Engineering filed 2026-04-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26110-812688 Database Architect filed 2026-04-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26110-812103 Staff Global Supply Manager filed 2026-04-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26110-811490 Sr. Validation Engineer, ADAS Driving & Safety Features filed 2026-04-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26108-808989 Sr. Engineer, Safety Electronics filed 2026-04-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26107-808445 Manager, Outbound Logistics Onsite filed 2026-04-17 · 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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Lucid USA, Inc.

    median of 20 decisions in the last 90 days

    305 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,586 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,522 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
424 published
84 pending
$154,000 median, n=424
Prevailing wage requests
663 published
47 pending
$137,301 median, n=625
H-1B labor condition applications
2,758 published
8 pending
$143,000 median, n=2,750

Its median H-1B wage is $143,000 across 2,750 LCAs, 7.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $154,000 across 424 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 84 pending PERM cases, 2 (2.4%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 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 Lucid USA, 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: 2,758 LCAs filed by Lucid USA, Inc., 2,668 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,064 positions for new employment, 963 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,064 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 963 · 32%
  • Continuing 7b 698 · 23%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 46 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 214 · 7%

Shares of the 2,984 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 80 · 3%
  • Level II 668 · 28%
  • Level III 814 · 34%
  • Level IV 808 · 34%

Shares of the 2,370 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; 298 of 2,668 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 2,572 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2,720. 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 2,719 · E-3 (Australia) 32 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 7. 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

    99.5% of 414 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 29% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    96 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 13,976 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,037 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    27% of 1,275 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 77% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    75% of 994 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

    99.0% of 1,235 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 54% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 29%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

455 daysahead of 62%

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 262 and 1,224 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
455 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 84 of 70,985 by volume: 83 filed at least as many filings, and 70,901 filed no more.

Just above
Expedia, Inc. 425 filings
Just below
Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. 424 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 Automotive 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

Automotive Engineers

SOC 17-2141.02 · 70 filings, 17% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 231 of 424 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

Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

NAICS 336110, 33611 · 220 filings

  • Automobile Manufacturing 336111179
  • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing 336124
  • Software Publishers 511211
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 362
  • Arizona 62
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 2 states cover 424 of 424 filings.

Where the work is

  • Newark, CA 362
  • Casa Grande, AZ 59
  • Tempe, AZ 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 424 of 424 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 424 filings · 99.5% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 424 of 424 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    245 cases

  2. The Arizona Republic

    37 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronocle

    1 cases

  4. San Franciso Chronicle

    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

    283 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    283 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    282 cases

  4. The employer's website

    1 cases

  5. Radio or TV ads

    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

    1.1%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    55%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    30%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    3.5%

  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 2021

649 PERM decisions from FY2021 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 182.

  • 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
FY2021 10 0 0
FY2022 59 2 5
FY2023 127 1 21
FY2024 135 1 7
FY2025 179 1 2
FY2026 98 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 225. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22279-34762 2023-09-29 certified Engineer, Plant NVH Systems, AZ $112,500
A-22263-25031 2023-09-29 certified Sr. Engineer, Plant Vehicle Body Structures, AZ $131,250
A-22234-09616 2023-09-29 certified Senior Human Resources Manager, AZ $180,000
A-22303-48501 2023-09-27 certified Senior Engineer, Board Support Package, CA $178,000
A-22301-48321 2023-09-26 certified Sr. Diagnostics Engineer, Controls, CA $149,060
A-22295-44227 2023-09-25 certified Senior Engineer, Diagnostics Systems, CA $146,500
A-22298-45293 2023-09-25 certified Senior Engineer, SDET, CA $154,200
A-22290-40921 2023-09-22 certified Sr. Engineer, Advanced Product Quality, CA $148,096
The other 17
A-22272-31085 2023-09-22 certified Senior Systems Engineer, Automotive Controls, CA $185,400
A-22294-44025 2023-09-21 certified Industrial Engineer, AZ $121,000
A-22280-35633 2023-09-12 certified General Assembly Quality Engineer, AZ $102,800
A-22257-21665 2023-09-01 certified Sr. Engineer, Automotive E/E System Integration, CA $145,000
A-22270-29255 2023-08-30 certified Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Domain Controller (ADAS/AD), CA $165,000
A-22255-19743 2023-08-30 certified Sr. PLM Analyst, Service, CA $143,500
A-22257-21343 2023-08-28 certified Technical Project Manager, CA $150,000
A-22256-20887 2023-08-28 certified Security Engineer, Security Operations Center, CA $155,000
A-22258-22188 2023-08-24 certified Quality Assurance Engineer, Infotainment, CA $151,882
A-22273-31589 2023-08-21 certified Engineer, Automotive EE Systems Integration, CA $150,000
A-22243-15187 2023-08-08 certified Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Engineer, CA $135,000
A-22269-28162 2023-07-28 certified Sr. SW Test Engineer, CA $154,200
A-22234-09961 2023-07-28 certified Sr. Test Engineer Model Based Design, Automotive Controls, CA $154,200
A-22258-22178 2023-07-26 certified Sr. Vehicle Test Engineer, Range and Efficiency, CA $154,000
A-22229-07426 2023-07-26 certified Sr. SQA Engineer, CA $167,710
A-22221-03147 2023-07-21 certified Drive Unit Test and Validation Engineer, CA $139,000
A-22222-04026 2023-07-21 certified QA Engineer, Infotainment, CA $150,000

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 151
  • United Kingdom 18
  • China 17
  • Germany 10
  • Mexico 8
  • Canada 6

Worker's education

  • Master's 145
  • Bachelor's 58
  • Doctorate 9
  • Other 8
  • None 4
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 189
  • E-2 26
  • O-1 4
  • TN 2
  • E-3 1
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 13
  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY 11
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON 6
  • ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 5
  • CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 4
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 4

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 46
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 28
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 14
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 14
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 8
  • ELECTRONIC 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 6 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 #84 counts this page's cases only.

35 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 Automotive Engineers, 70 of 424. 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 424 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 84. 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 414 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 20, 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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