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PERM sponsor, #585 of 70,985 by filings

MetLife Group, Inc.

MetLife Group, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 20 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. MetLife Group, Inc. has 17 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 31% of its filings
Main worksite
Cary, NC · 65% of its filings
Industry
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages · NAICS 524210

Waiting on a case with MetLife Group, Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 63 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

65

#585 of 70,985

Certified

63

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$138,000

offered, per year

Median days

463

3 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 79 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

17

of 79 tracked cases. The other 62 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 4, 2025, 11 months ago.

Where those 17 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1694%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
16%

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 79 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 79, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow MetLife Group, Inc.

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.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 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. MetLife Group, Inc.

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    321 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

20 days longer than everyone's, which usually means audits or requests for information in the mix. 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 79,592 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)
65 published
17 pending
$138,000 median, n=65
Prevailing wage requests
84 published
15 pending
$127,796 median, n=82
H-1B labor condition applications
767 published
0 pending
$117,187 median, n=767

Its median H-1B wage is $117,187 across 767 LCAs, 15.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $138,000 across 65 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 17 pending PERM cases, 1 (5.9%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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; 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 MetLife Group, 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: 767 LCAs filed by MetLife Group, Inc., 747 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

60 positions for new employment, 218 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 60 · 8%
  • Change of employer 7e 218 · 29%
  • Continuing 7b 197 · 26%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 234 · 31%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 38 · 5%

Shares of the 747 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 31 · 5%
  • Level II 152 · 26%
  • Level III 71 · 12%
  • Level IV 334 · 57%

Shares of the 588 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; 159 of 747 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 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 720 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 751. 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 751 · E-3 (Australia) 14 · H-1B1 (Chile) 2. 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 63 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    20 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,051 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    212 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    9.2% of 250 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 34% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    82% of 146 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 94% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.6% of 294 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 38% 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

463 daysahead of 52%

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 60 and 71 filings.

Their median wait
467 days
This one
463 days

This one sits 4 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 585 of 70,985 by volume: 584 filed at least as many filings, and 70,400 filed no more.

Just above
NAGARRO, INC 65 filings
Just below
Zoetis, Inc. 65 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 · 20 filings, 31% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 42 of 65 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

Insurance Agencies and Brokerages

NAICS 524210 · 64 filings

  • Direct Life Insurance Carriers 5241131
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

  • North Carolina 42
  • New York 14
  • New Jersey 5
  • Florida 2
  • Missouri 1
  • Pennsylvania 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 65 of 65 filings.

Where the work is

  • Cary, NC 42
  • New York, NY 14
  • Whippany, NJ 3
  • Bridgewater, NJ 2
  • Tampa, FL 2
  • Clarks Summit, PA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 64 of 65 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Seyfarth Shaw LLP 46 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 19 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 65 of 65 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The News & Observer

    25 cases

  2. The New York Times

    13 cases

  3. The News & Observer/The Herald-Sun

    8 cases

  4. The Star-Ledger

    3 cases

  5. The News & Observer / Herald Sun

    2 cases

  6. Tampa Bay Times

    2 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. Employee referral programs

    56 cases

  2. The employer's website

    56 cases

  3. Job search websites

    56 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    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

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    66%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    21%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

291 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2017 with 37.

  • 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 9 0 0
FY2009 6 0 2
FY2010 5 0 0
FY2011 4 0 0
FY2012 11 0 0
FY2013 8 0 1
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 6 0 0
FY2016 14 0 2
FY2017 35 0 2
FY2018 13 0 0
FY2019 28 0 0
FY2020 12 0 1
FY2021 19 0 0
FY2022 21 0 3
FY2023 21 0 1
FY2024 15 0 1
FY2025 31 0 0
FY2026 17 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 172. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22248-16614 2023-09-19 certified Director, Software Development, NC $181,626
A-22272-30371 2023-09-13 certified Senior Software Develop Engineer, NC $122,000
A-22263-24406 2023-08-28 certified Software Development Engineer II, NC $113,339
A-22256-20251 2023-08-24 certified AVP, Global Strategy, NY $167,500
A-22263-25178 2023-08-23 certified Senior Software Development Engineer, FL $115,642
A-22250-17528 2023-08-07 certified Director - Cybersecurity Platforms and Automation, NY $237,016
A-22214-98522 2023-06-05 certified Sr. Splunk Analyst, Cybersecurity Analytics, NC $130,000
A-22169-74357 2023-05-08 certified Software Develop Engineer II, NC $94,806
The other 17
A-22129-52253 2023-04-19 certified Lead Software Development Engineer, NC $131,851
A-22126-51299 2023-04-19 certified Senior Business Systems Analyst, NC $115,898
A-22168-73693 2023-04-10 certified Senior Associate Actuary, NY $121,500
A-22169-74370 2023-03-28 certified Market Risk Analyst, NJ $116,300
A-22084-30607 2023-03-17 certified Lead Business Systems Analyst, NC $115,898
A-22012-96982 2023-03-02 certified Senior Project Lead, SC $106,786
A-22038-08034 2023-01-12 certified IT Risk, Security & Business Continuity Consultant, NC $121,742
A-22091-34259 2023-01-06 certified Actuary, Longevity Reinsurance Pricing, NY $143,500
A-22084-30653 2022-12-28 certified Senior Associate Actuary, DE $128,000
A-21343-83793 2022-12-19 certified Lead Software Develop Engineer, NC $126,100
A-22035-07475 2022-11-28 certified Software Development Engineer, NC $102,286
A-22048-12732 2022-11-23 certified Lead Business Analytics Engagement, NC $128,778
A-22129-52116 2022-11-07 withdrawn Senior Software Development Engineer, NC $115,898
A-22018-98983 2022-10-20 certified Principal Software Engineer, NC $132,870
A-22005-93709 2022-09-12 certified Senior Engineer, NC $113,125
A-22192-85918 2022-08-09 withdrawn Director - Cybersecurity Platforms and Automation, NY $237,016
A-21313-69998 2022-07-13 certified Counsel, NY $153,743

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 138
  • China 14
  • Canada 6
  • United Kingdom 3
  • Mexico 2
  • South Korea 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 87
  • Master's 84
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 166
  • L-1 2
  • E-3 1
  • PAROLEE 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 10
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 7
  • RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY 6
  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 5
  • UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 4
  • NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 3

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 21
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 20
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 14
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 12
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 11
  • ELECTRONICS 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 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 #585 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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, 20 of 65. 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 65 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 585. 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 63 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 NC. 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 23, 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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