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PERM sponsor, #22 of 70,985 by filings

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 26 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on May 8, 2026. Meta Platforms, Inc. has 19 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 53% of its filings
Main worksite
Menlo Park, CA · 41% of its filings
Industry
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals · NAICS 51913

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Filings

1,257

#22 of 70,985

Certified

1,198

6 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$193,070

offered, per year

Median days

399

67 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 618 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

19

of 618 tracked cases. The other 599 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 3, 2025, 11 months ago.

Where those 19 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1474%

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

RFI ISSUED
526%

DOL has asked the employer for more documentation. The deadline is the one printed on the RFI letter, because DOL doesn't publish a standard response window for these.

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 618 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 618, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 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.

Layoff notices filed by Meta Platforms, Inc.

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • May 22, 2026, layoff, permanent, 1,395 employees, King County, effective July 22, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • March 31, 2026, layoff, permanent, 168 employees, Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, effective May 8, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • January 19, 2026, layoff, permanent, 331 employees, King County, effective March 20, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • October 23, 2025, layoff, permanent, 101 employees, Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, effective December 22, 2025. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Meta Platforms, Inc.

    median of 7 decisions in the last 90 days

    306 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 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 80,983 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)
1,257 published
19 pending
$193,070 median, n=1,255
Prevailing wage requests
10,974 published
944 pending
$147,368 median, n=10,855
H-1B labor condition applications
27,542 published
77 pending
$198,940 median, n=27,520

Its median H-1B wage is $198,940 across 27,520 LCAs, 3.0% higher than its median PERM wage of $193,070 across 1,255 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 19 pending PERM cases, 5 (26%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 5 at RFI. 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 Meta Platforms, 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: 27,542 LCAs filed by Meta Platforms, Inc., 27,235 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

10,370 positions for new employment, 18,267 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 10,370 · 24%
  • Change of employer 7e 18,267 · 42%
  • Continuing 7b 6,570 · 15%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4,539 · 11%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 5 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 3,307 · 8%

Shares of the 43,036 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 1,369 · 6%
  • Level II 4,346 · 18%
  • Level III 5,974 · 25%
  • Level IV 11,813 · 50%

Shares of the 23,502 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; 3,733 of 27,235 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 26,644 of 26,688 LCAs, and a willful violator on 12 of 26,687. 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 26,633 · E-3 (Australia) 493 · H-1B1 (Chile) 147 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 269. 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 1,204 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    26 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 97% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    11,656 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    57% of 24,433 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 98% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    65% of 11,704 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 80% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 13,833 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 12 LCAs.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 29%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

399 daysahead of 89%

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 81 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 429 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
399 days

This one sits 62 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 22 of 70,985 by volume: 21 filed at least as many filings, and 70,963 filed no more.

Just above
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP 1,267 filings
Just below
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation 1,236 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 · 672 filings, 53% of everything they file · 99.7% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 862 of 1,257 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

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

NAICS 51913, 519130 · 484 filings

  • Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services 519290, 51929399
  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 518210374
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 733
  • Washington 341
  • New York 117
  • Texas 35
  • Massachusetts 10
  • Pennsylvania 6
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 1,242 of 1,257 filings.

Where the work is

  • Menlo Park, CA 521
  • Bellevue, WA 151
  • Seattle, WA 142
  • New York, NY 116
  • Sunnyvale, CA 83
  • Burlingame, CA 56
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,069 of 1,257 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 598 filings · 99.8% approved
  2. Ogletree Deakins 360 filings · 99.7% approved
  3. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 185 filings · 98.3% approved
  4. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 109 filings · 100.0% approved
  5. FRAGOMEN - SILICON VALLEY 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,253 of 1,257 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    294 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    168 cases

  3. The New York Times

    50 cases

  4. The Mercury News

    24 cases

  5. East Bay Times

    20 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    16 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. The employer's website

    591 cases

  2. Job search websites

    591 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    591 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    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

    6.6%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    35%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    25%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    33%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.3%
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 2023

1,628 PERM decisions from FY2023 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 681.

  • 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
FY2023 228 0 143
FY2024 660 1 20
FY2025 385 0 28
FY2026 153 5 5

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 371. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22306-50440 2023-09-29 certified Product Design Engineer, CA $164,409
A-22291-41819 2023-09-29 certified Product Designer, NY $157,526
A-22298-45735 2023-09-29 certified Silicon Validation Engineer, CA $194,040
A-22299-46133 2023-09-29 certified Silicon Physical Design Engineer, TX $240,000
A-22284-37477 2023-09-29 certified Digital Design Engineer, CA $205,079
A-22284-37119 2023-09-29 certified Radio-frequency (RF) Engineering Manager, CA $238,799
A-22301-48323 2023-09-29 certified Business Planning and Operations Program Manager, TX $164,396
A-22305-50077 2023-09-29 certified Data Scientist, Product, NY $165,000
The other 17
A-22304-48771 2023-09-29 certified Payments Data Analyst, Partner Data Solutions, TX $154,840
A-22300-47490 2023-09-29 certified Data Scientist, Product, NY $200,651
A-22300-47241 2023-09-29 certified Analytics Business Partner, NY $173,250
A-22307-51307 2023-09-29 certified Payments Data Analyst, CA $150,390
A-22300-47499 2023-09-29 certified Program Manager, NY $213,640
A-22285-37852 2023-09-29 certified Business Performance Analyst, CA $173,997
A-22284-37174 2023-09-29 certified Risk Analyst, TX $136,549
A-22298-45748 2023-09-29 certified Technical Program Manager, CA $208,183
A-22311-53403 2023-09-29 certified Developer Support Engineer, CA $167,688
A-22307-51628 2023-09-29 certified Research Scientist, NY $173,435
A-22307-51209 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $217,314
A-22306-50597 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, NY $176,099
A-22306-50402 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $171,584
A-22305-49995 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, NY $197,388
A-22304-49129 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, NY $199,557
A-22300-47151 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, Systems, NY $200,970
A-22299-46571 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, Product, NY $198,940

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 172
  • China 123
  • Canada 14
  • Taiwan 7
  • Mexico 4
  • South Korea 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 276
  • Bachelor's 76
  • Doctorate 16
  • None 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 341
  • L-1 17
  • F-1 5
  • TN 4
  • H-1B1 1
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY 16
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 15
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 13
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 12
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 8
  • STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 8

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 87
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 27
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 26
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 26
  • BUSINESS ANALYTICS 9
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 9

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 5 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 #22 counts this page's cases only.

9 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, 672 of 1,257. 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 1,257 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 22. 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 1,204 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 18, 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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