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PERM sponsor, #328 of 70,985 by filings

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY sponsors green cards: it filed 24 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 12, 2026. MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY has 22 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer · 21% of its filings
Main worksite
Chandler, AZ · 52% of its filings
Industry
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing · NAICS 3344

Waiting on a case with MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY?

  • When it'll likely be decided
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This rate is level with the field

Over 102 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.3% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

111

#328 of 70,985

Certified

101

1 denied

Approval

99.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$105,000

offered, per year

Median days

470

4 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 132 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

22

of 132 tracked cases. The other 110 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 18, 2025, 10 months ago.

Where those 22 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
22100%

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

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 132 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 132, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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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. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 3 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 81,062 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)
111 published
22 pending
$105,000 median, n=110
Prevailing wage requests
159 published
2 pending
$111,881 median, n=154
H-1B labor condition applications
822 published
0 pending
$94,515 median, n=820

Its median H-1B wage is $94,515 across 820 LCAs, 10.0% lower than its median PERM wage of $105,000 across 110 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.

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 3 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 MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY, 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: 822 LCAs filed by MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY, 761 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

299 positions for new employment, 102 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 299 · 39%
  • Change of employer 7e 102 · 13%
  • Continuing 7b 207 · 27%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 127 · 17%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 27 · 4%

Shares of the 761 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 329 · 48%
  • Level II 215 · 32%
  • Level III 78 · 11%
  • Level IV 58 · 9%

Shares of the 680 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; 81 of 761 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 760 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 819. 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 819 · E-3 (Australia) 2 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 1. 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

    99.0% of 102 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 26% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    24 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    203 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    7.9% of 215 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 29% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    14% of 186 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 32% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.8% of 256 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 53% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.0%ahead of 26%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

470 daysahead of 43%

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 94 and 141 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 1 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 328 of 70,985 by volume: 327 filed at least as many filings, and 70,657 filed no more.

Just above
Costco Wholesale Corporation 111 filings
Just below
Karst Stage, Inc. 111 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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 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

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

SOC 17-2072.00 · 23 filings, 21% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 74 of 111 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 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

NAICS 3344 · 111 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

  • Arizona 58
  • California 26
  • Texas 9
  • Colorado 8
  • New York 3
  • Pennsylvania 3
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 107 of 111 filings.

Where the work is

  • Chandler, AZ 58
  • San Jose, CA 21
  • Colorado Springs, CO 8
  • Austin, TX 5
  • Houston, TX 4
  • Roseville, CA 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 100 of 111 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Graham Adair, Inc. 111 filings · 99.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 111 of 111 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Arizona Republic

    45 cases

  2. The Mercury News

    15 cases

  3. Colorado Springs Gazette

    6 cases

  4. Austin American-Statesman

    5 cases

  5. Houston Chronicle

    3 cases

  6. The New York 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. Job search websites

    87 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    87 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    87 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

    45%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    43%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    10%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    2.3%

  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

496 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 47.

  • 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 10 2 0
FY2009 8 0 0
FY2010 8 1 0
FY2011 5 1 1
FY2012 29 1 2
FY2013 19 0 0
FY2014 21 1 3
FY2015 25 0 0
FY2016 37 0 0
FY2017 36 0 1
FY2018 35 0 9
FY2019 24 0 0
FY2020 35 0 0
FY2021 28 1 0
FY2022 22 0 1
FY2023 19 0 0
FY2024 27 0 1
FY2025 40 1 6
FY2026 34 0 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 248. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22297-44873 2023-09-19 certified Principal Engineer - Product Marketing, AZ $106,746
A-22264-26000 2023-08-24 certified Senior Engineer I-Device, CA $100,152
A-22263-25012 2023-08-21 certified Analog Design Engineer, AZ $98,030
A-22249-17159 2023-08-01 certified Principal IT Engineer, AZ $107,182
A-22263-25056 2023-07-28 certified Principal Engineer Verification, CA $135,075
A-22263-25136 2023-07-25 certified Principal Engineer - Firmware, AZ $136,552
A-22243-15183 2023-07-20 certified Sr. CAD Engineer, AZ $87,539
A-22228-06763 2023-07-19 certified Principal Engineer - Applications, AZ $102,329
The other 17
A-22255-19814 2023-07-05 certified Technical Staff Engineer - Software Development, AZ $136,552
A-22210-97485 2023-06-13 certified Software Engineer, CA $91,790
A-22214-98794 2023-05-17 certified Engineer - Design, AZ $104,092
A-22178-79152 2023-05-01 certified Principal Validation Engineer, AZ $149,053
A-22164-70981 2023-04-24 certified Principal Software Engineer, AZ $123,906
A-22196-89308 2023-04-12 certified Senior Technical Staff Engineer – Software, CA $184,080
A-22124-50501 2023-01-23 certified Principal Engineer - Firmware, CA $141,000
A-22046-11882 2022-11-28 certified Engineer II - Design, CA $111,738
A-22076-26841 2022-11-28 certified Principal Engineer-Software, TX $90,750
A-22074-25980 2022-11-28 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $100,140
A-22033-06626 2022-10-11 certified Principal Engineer - Software Quality (QA), AZ $102,669
A-22024-01768 2022-09-26 certified Corporate Applications Engineer, AZ $89,459
A-21342-83466 2022-07-29 certified Process Engineer, CO $74,776
A-21321-74683 2022-07-11 certified Principal Engineer - DevOps, AZ $101,670
A-21293-60863 2022-05-02 certified Sr. Engineer - Product, CA $101,774
A-21285-57370 2022-04-25 certified Principal Engineer-Software Development, TX $123,323
A-21277-53534 2022-04-20 certified Sr. Business Systems Analyst, AZ $92,685

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 166
  • China 25
  • Egypt 12
  • Philippines 8
  • Canada 6
  • South Korea 6

Worker's education

  • Master's 179
  • Bachelor's 62
  • Doctorate 6
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 196
  • L-1 40
  • TN 4
  • F-1 2
  • H-4 2

Schools

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 52
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 6
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 5
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 4
  • AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY 3
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON 3

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 102
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 20
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 15
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 6
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 6
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 4

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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 23 of 111. 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 111 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 328. 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 102 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 AZ. 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 19, 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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