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PERM sponsor, #1,283 of 70,985 by filings
MAPLEBEAR DBA INSTACART
- Main job
- Software Developers · 30% of its filings
- Main worksite
- San Francisco, CA · 94% of its filings
- Industry
- Software Publishers · NAICS 511210
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This rate is level with the field
Over 31 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 11.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Filings
33
#1,283 of 70,985
Certified
31
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$173,000
offered, per year
Median days
390
76 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.
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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 21, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 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 80,135 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)
- 33 published
- no live read
- $173,000 median, n=33
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
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.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
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 31 decided PERM cases
Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.
Approval rate
100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more
Median days to decision
390 daysahead of 94%
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 31 and 34 filings.
- Their median wait
- 464 days
- This one
- 390 days
This one sits 74 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 1,283 of 70,985 by volume: 1,282 filed at least as many filings, and 69,702 filed no more.
- Just above
- Two Ten Twenty Pizza, Inc. 33 filings
- Just below
- Axon Enterprise, Inc 32 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #1,282 Two Ten Twenty Pizza, Inc. 33 filings · none denied
- #1,284 Axon Enterprise, Inc 32 filings · none denied
- #1,281 Monarch Landscaping WA, LLC 33 filings · none denied
- #1,285 Clayco, Inc. 32 filings · 1 denied
- #1,280 Boselli & Sons LLC 33 filings · none denied
- #1,286 INFOGAIN CORPORATION 32 filings · 2 denied
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
SOC 15-1252.00 · 10 filings, 30% of everything they file
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 11-30214
- Database Architects 15-1243.003
- Operations Research Analysts 15-20313
- Accountants and Auditors 13-20112
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 13-11612
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 24 of 33 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
Software Publishers
NAICS 511210 · 33 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 32
- Illinois 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 2 states cover 33 of 33 filings.
Where the work is
- San Francisco, CA 31
- Chicago, IL 1
- San Francsico, CA 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 33 of 33 filings.
Who files for them
- Brown Immigration Law P.C., L.L.O. 33 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 33 of 33 filings, 100% of the total.
History
Year by year since 2016
352 PERM decisions from FY2016 to FY2024, busiest in FY2023 with 106.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 34 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 97 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 105 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 31 | 0 | 2 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 319. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22285-38116 | 2023-09-28 | certified | Senior Product Designer, CA | $160,000 |
| A-22285-38053 | 2023-09-28 | certified | Senior Product Designer, CA | $160,000 |
| A-22264-25793 | 2023-09-28 | certified | Strategy and Business Operations Associate, CA | $110,000 |
| A-22264-25716 | 2023-09-28 | certified | Strategy and Business Operations Associate, CA | $110,000 |
| A-22213-98108 | 2023-09-11 | certified | Analyst, Media Analytics, NY | $110,000 |
| A-22280-35588 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Senior Software Engineer, CA | $190,000 |
| A-22280-35472 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22278-33683 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
The other 17
| A-22278-33637 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22270-29096 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22227-05854 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Senior Software Engineer, CA | $190,000 |
| A-22264-25563 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Product Manager, CA | $190,000 |
| A-22258-22496 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Director of Product Management, CA | $260,000 |
| A-22259-22910 | 2023-08-04 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22259-22770 | 2023-08-01 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22258-22184 | 2023-08-01 | certified | Chief of Staff, CA | $235,000 |
| A-22259-23140 | 2023-07-27 | certified | Senior Engineering Manager, CA | $255,000 |
| A-22258-22282 | 2023-07-26 | certified | Trust & Safety Director, Fraud, CA | $260,000 |
| A-22194-87782 | 2023-07-26 | certified | Engineering Manager, CA | $255,000 |
| A-22166-72552 | 2023-07-26 | certified | Engineering Manager, CA | $255,000 |
| A-22259-23000 | 2023-07-21 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $170,000 |
| A-22259-23125 | 2023-07-21 | certified | Senior Engineering Manager, CA | $255,000 |
| A-22259-23027 | 2023-07-21 | certified | Senior Engineering Manager, CA | $255,000 |
| A-22227-05749 | 2023-06-30 | certified | Senior Software Engineer, CA | $190,000 |
| A-22224-05297 | 2023-06-30 | certified | Senior Software Engineer, CA | $190,000 |
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 132
- China 114
- Canada 32
- France 10
- Brazil 4
- Australia 3
Worker's education
- Master's 223
- Bachelor's 82
- Doctorate 12
- None 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 288
- TN 16
- E-3 3
- F-1 3
- O-1 3
- H-1B1 2
Schools
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 10
- CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 9
- GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 8
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 8
- UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 7
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 101
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 18
- COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 12
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 12
- STATISTICS 12
- ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 11
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 #1,283 counts this page's cases only.
69 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, 10 of 33. 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 33 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 1,283. 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 31 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
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.