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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 617 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 16, 2026. Microsoft Corporation has 598 PERM cases waiting with DOL, all of them on hold.

Main job
Software Developers · 63% of its filings
Main worksite
Redmond, WA · 85% of its filings
Industry
Software Publishers · NAICS 513210

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Filings

6,875

#1 of 70,985

Certified

6,260

45 denied

Approval

99.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$145,000

offered, per year

Median days

460

6 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 5,811 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

598

of 5,811 tracked cases. The other 5,213 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 4, 2025, 19 months ago.

Where those 598 are standing

APPLICATION ON HOLD
598100%

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 5,811 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 5,811, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

Follow Microsoft Corporation

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

  1. October 8 DOL put 598 of its cases on hold

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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 Microsoft Corporation

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.

  • September 22, 2026, layoff, permanent, 277 employees, Redmond, effective November 21, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • July 6, 2026, layoff, permanent, 605 employees, Redmond, effective September 4, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • September 8, 2025, layoff, permanent, 42 employees, Redmond, effective November 7, 2025. Washington WARN report
  • August 4, 2025, layoff, permanent, 40 employees, Redmond, effective October 3, 2025. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Microsoft Corporation

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    720 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

418 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 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)
6,875 published
598 pending
$145,000 median, n=6,865
Prevailing wage requests
8,882 published
315 pending
$128,502 median, n=8,801
H-1B labor condition applications
58,652 published
161 pending
$157,515 median, n=58,649

Its median H-1B wage is $157,515 across 58,649 LCAs, 8.6% higher than its median PERM wage of $145,000 across 6,865 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 598 pending PERM cases, 598 (100%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 598 on hold. The hold, from this site's daily record: on hold since October 8, 2026. 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 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 Microsoft Corporation, 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: 58,652 LCAs filed by Microsoft Corporation, 58,624 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

43,843 positions for new employment, 11,006 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 43,843 · 48%
  • Change of employer 7e 11,006 · 12%
  • Continuing 7b 32,036 · 35%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 69 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 4 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 4,574 · 5%

Shares of the 91,529 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 6,590 · 11%
  • Level II 24,901 · 43%
  • Level III 20,614 · 36%
  • Level IV 5,383 · 9%

Shares of the 57,488 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; 1,136 of 58,624 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 54,776 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 57,817. 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 57,786 · E-3 (Australia) 521 · H-1B1 (Chile) 158 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 187. 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

    99.3% of 6,305 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 28% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    617 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    13,904 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

    8.9% of 26,447 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 33% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    53% of 16,658 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 69% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.0% of 14,975 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 42% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.3%ahead of 28%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

460 daysahead of 56%

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 60 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 540 and 2,953 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
460 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 1 of 70,985 by volume: 0 filed at least as many filings, and 70,984 filed no more.

Just below
FPL Food, LLC 2,953 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 · 4,310 filings, 63% of everything they file · 99.6% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 5,644 of 6,875 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 513210, 51121, 511210, 51321, 5112, 5132 · 6,875 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

  • Washington 5,820
  • Georgia 310
  • California 283
  • Texas 197
  • North Carolina 70
  • New York 55
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 6,735 of 6,875 filings.

Where the work is

  • Redmond, WA 5,816
  • Atlanta, GA 309
  • Mountain View, CA 249
  • Irving, TX 97
  • Austin, TX 91
  • New York, NY 53
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 6,615 of 6,875 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vialto Partners LLP 4,434 filings · 99.4% approved
  2. Tafapolsky & Smith LLP 1,403 filings · 99.8% approved
  3. EY Law LLP 463 filings · 99.8% approved
  4. Murthy Law Firm 364 filings · 97.8% approved
  5. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 117 filings · 98.8% approved
  6. MacDonald Hoague & Bayless 32 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 6,813 of 6,875 filings, 99% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    4,467 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    196 cases

  3. The Mercury News

    173 cases

  4. The Dallas Morning News

    58 cases

  5. Austin American-Statesman

    57 cases

  6. The New York Times

    45 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. Trade or professional organizations

    5,170 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    5,166 cases

  3. Job search websites

    5,162 cases

  4. The employer's website

    13 cases

  5. Campus placement offices

    4 cases

  6. Radio or TV ads

    4 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

    under 0.1%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    under 0.1%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    52%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    34%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    10%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    4.6%

  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

40,897 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 4,693.

  • 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 935 52 4
FY2009 93 6 34
FY2010 82 68 7
FY2011 3,531 918 212
FY2012 2,215 163 130
FY2013 538 42 41
FY2014 2,664 7 104
FY2015 923 6 74
FY2016 3,325 6 34
FY2017 1,926 22 43
FY2018 2,259 9 33
FY2019 1,247 3 27
FY2020 2,261 10 49
FY2021 4,524 9 160
FY2022 2,562 9 106
FY2023 2,396 9 144
FY2024 1,734 33 268
FY2025 2,926 8 223
FY2026 1,600 4 79

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 21,173. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22244-15585 2023-09-29 certified Hardware Engineer, WA $145,000
A-22283-36258 2023-09-29 certified Data and Applied Scientist, WA $140,000
A-22279-34935 2023-09-29 certified Data and Applied Scientist, MA $165,000
A-22318-57131 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $138,295
A-22308-52393 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, GA $105,200
A-22284-36814 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $156,000
A-22279-34308 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $144,600
A-22279-34223 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $144,000
The other 17
A-22276-32132 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $133,000
A-22272-30330 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $168,709
A-22271-29996 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $150,000
A-22270-28960 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $140,000
A-22270-28926 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $200,000
A-22270-28777 2023-09-29 certified Principal Software Engineer, WA $185,797
A-22215-99485 2023-09-29 certified Software Engineer, WA $150,300
A-22259-22931 2023-09-29 certified Support Escalation Engineer, WA $135,000
A-22286-38500 2023-09-29 certified Principal Program Manager, WA $210,300
A-22283-36273 2023-09-29 certified Program Manager, WA $122,000
A-22271-29478 2023-09-29 certified Data & Applied Scientist Manager, WA $146,748
A-22272-30851 2023-09-28 certified Program Manager, WA $163,900
A-22271-29680 2023-09-28 certified Data & Applied Scientist, WA $150,000
A-22305-49510 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, WA $121,100
A-22279-35006 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, WA $156,000
A-22279-34522 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, GA $120,000
A-22272-30356 2023-09-28 certified Software Engineer, WA $166,000

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 10,867
  • China 4,149
  • Canada 1,521
  • Mexico 602
  • Brazil 261
  • Australia 221

Worker's education

  • Master's 12,167
  • Bachelor's 7,566
  • Doctorate 788
  • None 450
  • Other 191
  • Associate's 9

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 11,809
  • L-1 3,876
  • F-1 2,872
  • TN 1,560
  • H-4 207
  • E-3 179

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 504
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 494
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 312
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 290
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 287
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 273

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 6,077
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 3,064
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 807
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 719
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ENGINEERING RELATED) 645
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 616

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 3 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 #1 counts this page's cases only.

5 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, 4,310 of 6,875. 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 6,875 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. 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 6,305 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 WA. 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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