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PERM sponsor, #104 of 70,985 by filings

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.

Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 130 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 23, 2026. Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. has 105 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 51% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 56% of its filings
Industry
Investment Banking and Securities Dealing · NAICS 523110

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Filings

354

#104 of 70,985

Certified

346

1 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$154,000

offered, per year

Median days

474

8 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 421 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

105

of 421 tracked cases. The other 316 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 29, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 105 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
105100%

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 421 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 421, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.

    median of 23 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
354 published
105 pending
$154,000 median, n=354
Prevailing wage requests
683 published
54 pending
$138,112 median, n=666
H-1B labor condition applications
4,529 published
4 pending
$150,000 median, n=4,517

Its median H-1B wage is $150,000 across 4,517 LCAs, 2.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $154,000 across 354 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 Morgan Stanley Services 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: 4,529 LCAs filed by Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc., 4,350 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,396 positions for new employment, 1,309 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,396 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,309 · 26%
  • Continuing 7b 2,125 · 42%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 14 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 174 · 3%

Shares of the 5,015 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 136 · 3%
  • Level II 1,834 · 45%
  • Level III 1,680 · 42%
  • Level IV 391 · 10%

Shares of the 4,041 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; 309 of 4,350 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 4,200 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4,483. 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 4,479 · E-3 (Australia) 48 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1 · 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

    99.7% of 347 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    130 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,283 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    35% of 1,902 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 87% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    50% of 1,361 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 65% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 1,536 USCIS decisions

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

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

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 31%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

474 daysahead of 37%

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 227 and 772 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
474 days

This one sits 12 days behind 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 104 of 70,985 by volume: 103 filed at least as many filings, and 70,881 filed no more.

Just above
FH Miami Operations LLC 355 filings
Just below
Rely Workforce Group LLC 343 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 · 182 filings, 51% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 272 of 354 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

Investment Banking and Securities Dealing

NAICS 523110, 52311 · 233 filings

  • Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage 5231120
  • Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation 5231501
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

  • New York 201
  • Georgia 109
  • California 15
  • Maryland 12
  • Illinois 7
  • New Jersey 5
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 349 of 354 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 199
  • Alpharetta, GA 107
  • Menlo Park, CA 14
  • Baltimore, MD 12
  • Chicago, IL 7
  • Jersey City, NJ 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 344 of 354 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 256 filings · 99.6% approved
  2. Ogletree Deakins 97 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NAHS, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 354 of 354 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    143 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    85 cases

  3. The Baltimore Sun

    9 cases

  4. San Francisco Chronicle

    9 cases

  5. Chicago Tribune

    4 cases

  6. San Francisco Chronical

    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. The employer's website

    259 cases

  2. Job search websites

    259 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    259 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

    16%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    13%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    25%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    46%

  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 2016

1,013 PERM decisions from FY2016 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 154.

  • 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
FY2016 23 0 0
FY2017 51 0 0
FY2018 67 0 0
FY2019 70 0 2
FY2020 70 0 0
FY2021 149 0 1
FY2022 101 0 1
FY2023 119 3 2
FY2024 100 0 2
FY2025 151 0 3
FY2026 95 1 2

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 659. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22200-90696 2023-09-28 denied Vice President, Control and Fraud Operations, UT $160,000
A-22245-16134 2023-09-22 certified Associate, GA $127,712
A-22258-22200 2023-09-12 certified Associate, NY $125,000
A-22244-15584 2023-09-07 certified Associate, CA $154,000
A-22259-22791 2023-08-30 certified Director, Finance, NY $150,821
A-22273-31439 2023-08-28 certified Executive Director, NY $177,000
A-22251-18239 2023-08-22 certified Vice President, NY $207,500
A-22256-20524 2023-08-22 certified Manager, NY $125,000
The other 17
A-22188-84882 2023-08-21 certified Vice President, Wealth Management Technology, GA $162,000
A-22256-20584 2023-08-21 certified Vice President, MD $143,894
A-22202-92254 2023-08-18 certified Associate, Application Development, CA $150,000
A-22178-79159 2023-08-18 certified Associate, NY $129,950
A-22245-16342 2023-08-17 certified Vice President, GA $150,000
A-22250-17943 2023-08-17 certified Associate, NY $142,500
A-22179-79673 2023-08-15 certified Associate, NY $125,000
A-22140-58554 2023-08-15 certified Associate, NY $128,000
A-22252-18972 2023-07-31 certified Associate, NY $145,454
A-22210-97029 2023-07-31 certified Associate, GA $122,000
A-22208-95697 2023-07-31 certified Associate, NY $146,000
A-22112-44991 2023-07-27 withdrawn Associate, Security Engineer, VA $142,200
A-22119-48078 2023-07-26 certified Associate, NY $82,000
A-22154-65945 2023-07-25 certified Vice President, NY $145,454
A-22206-94342 2023-07-13 certified Director, Liquidity Investment & Funding Control, NY $117,000
A-22250-18064 2023-07-06 certified Vice President, Payments Control, MD $119,413
A-22147-62371 2023-07-05 certified Associate, NY $146,000

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 445
  • China 80
  • United Kingdom 36
  • Canada 27
  • Hungary 18
  • Nigeria 9

Worker's education

  • Master's 324
  • Bachelor's 310
  • Other 12
  • Doctorate 7
  • None 6

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 540
  • L-1 96
  • H-4 5
  • TN 4
  • E-3 2
  • L-2 1

Schools

  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 27
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 19
  • STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 19
  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 14
  • NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 12
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 11

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 93
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 88
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 55
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 39
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 33
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 28

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 Software Developers, 182 of 354. 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 354 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 104. 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 347 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 NY. 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 25, 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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