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PERM sponsor, #1,651 of 70,985 by filings

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 10 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 21, 2026. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has 8 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Data Scientists · 31% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 58% of its filings
Industry
Investment Banking and Securities Dealing · NAICS 523110

Waiting on a case with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC?

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Too few cases for a rate

26 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

26

#1,651 of 70,985

Certified

24

2 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 26 decided

Median wage

$143,820

offered, per year

Median days

392

74 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 30 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

8

of 30 tracked cases. The other 22 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 19, 2025, 11 months ago.

Where those 8 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
8100%

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 30 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 30, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 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.

  • G-100-26294-315298 Assistant Vice President, Data Analytics filed 2026-10-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26208-125951 Vice President, Business Analysis filed 2026-07-27 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26189-085413 Assistant Vice President, Risk Management filed 2026-07-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26173-038071 Assistant Vice President, Risk Management filed 2026-06-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26139-927116 Assistant Vice President, Data Analytics filed 2026-05-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26135-915338 Assistant Vice President, Data Analytics filed 2026-05-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26127-880493 Executive Director, Risk/ Policy Mgmt filed 2026-05-07 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-25335-447836 Assistant Vice President, Business Analysis filed 2025-12-01 · CERTIFIED

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 31,712 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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 79,711 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
26 published
8 pending
$143,820 median, n=26
Prevailing wage requests
79 published
2 pending
$123,541 median, n=69
H-1B labor condition applications
336 published
1 pending
$135,000 median, n=335

Its median H-1B wage is $135,000 across 335 LCAs, 6.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $143,820 across 26 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 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 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26294-315315 Assistant Vice President, Oversight and Supervision 2026-10-21 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26272-267881 Assistant Vice President, Data Analytics 2026-09-29 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26182-071742 Assistant Vice President, Data Science & Analysis 2026-07-01 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26146-948592 Executive Director, Research 2026-05-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26132-901535 Assistant Vice President, Risk Management 2026-05-12 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 336 LCAs filed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, 316 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

163 positions for new employment, 117 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 163 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 117 · 26%
  • Continuing 7b 132 · 29%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 33 · 7%

Shares of the 449 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 7 · 3%
  • Level II 102 · 39%
  • Level III 116 · 45%
  • Level IV 34 · 13%

Shares of the 259 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; 57 of 316 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 310 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 320. 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 318 · E-3 (Australia) 15 · H-1B1 (Chile) 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 filings in the last 12 months

    10 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 90% of the 14,032 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    88 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    38% of 183 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 90% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    42% of 98 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 58% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.9% of 95 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 41% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

392 daysmiddle of 26 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 26 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 25 and 27 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
392 days

This one sits 72 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 1,651 of 70,985 by volume: 1,650 filed at least as many filings, and 69,334 filed no more.

Just above
PSEMI CORPORATION 26 filings
Just below
Wenzona Yuma Inc 26 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 Data Scientists, 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

Data Scientists

SOC 15-2051.00 · 8 filings, 31% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 20 of 26 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 · 16 filings

  • Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage 523110
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 16
  • New Jersey 5
  • California 3
  • Florida 1
  • Georgia 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 5 states cover 26 of 26 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 15
  • Jersey City, NJ 5
  • Alpharetta, GA 1
  • Menlo Park, CA 1
  • Miami, FL 1
  • Palo Alto, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 24 of 26 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 16 filings
  2. Ogletree Deakins 10 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 26 of 26 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    11 cases

  2. The Star-Ledger

    2 cases

  3. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    1 cases

  4. Los Angeles Times

    1 cases

  5. Miami Herald

    1 cases

  6. THE STAR-LEDGER, AFFILIATED WITH NJ

    1 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

    17 cases

  2. Job search websites

    17 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    17 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

    29%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    29%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    5.9%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    35%

  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 2010

152 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2011 with 18.

  • 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
FY2010 4 0 0
FY2011 18 0 0
FY2012 14 0 0
FY2013 7 0 0
FY2014 13 0 0
FY2015 10 0 0
FY2016 13 0 1
FY2017 5 0 0
FY2018 7 0 0
FY2019 5 0 0
FY2020 6 0 0
FY2021 6 0 0
FY2022 6 0 0
FY2023 11 0 0
FY2024 7 2 0
FY2025 2 0 0
FY2026 15 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 60. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22227-05782 2023-07-25 certified Senior Vice President, Wealth Management Field, NY $100,008
A-22202-92331 2023-06-12 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $140,000
A-22221-02827 2023-05-23 certified Vice President, Wealth Management Field, NY $150,000
A-22178-79086 2023-04-13 certified Vice President, NY $150,000
A-22146-61674 2023-03-13 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $110,000
A-22095-35836 2023-02-10 certified Vice President, Wealth Management Field, NY $160,000
A-22088-32276 2023-01-27 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $130,500
A-22053-14429 2022-12-21 certified Vice President, NY $142,958
The other 17
A-21364-92173 2022-12-07 certified Vice President, NY $170,000
A-22018-99324 2022-11-17 certified Vice President, Analytics and Data, NJ $180,000
A-22020-00230 2022-10-24 certified Vice President, NY $190,000
A-22007-95220 2022-09-23 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $120,000
A-21328-77720 2022-08-12 certified Vice President, NY $151,000
A-21263-47351 2022-04-21 certified Vice President, NY $108,000
A-21168-02778 2022-01-11 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $112,000
A-21169-03525 2022-01-05 certified Assistant Vice President, Analytics and Data, NY $132,000
A-21104-73958 2021-10-20 certified Vice President, Product Developer and Strategist, NY $140,000
A-21082-65264 2021-09-22 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $135,866
A-21036-49403 2021-08-06 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $92,000
A-20315-19261 2021-06-29 certified Senior Vice President, Institutional Consulting Director, CA $109,455
A-20343-30459 2021-06-10 certified Assistant Vice President, NY $125,000
A-20263-01708 2021-05-25 certified Vice President, NY $134,930
A-20177-69647 2021-03-04 certified Vice President, Private Banking, NY $100,000
A-20002-01662 2020-06-01 certified Vice President, Private Wealth Advisor, Latin America, Spain, and Switzerland, FL $173,644
A-19329-87695 2020-05-26 certified Assistant Vice President, Platform Solutions Business Analyst, NY $107,150

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 26
  • China 11
  • Spain 4
  • Hungary 3
  • Argentina 2
  • Canada 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 34
  • Bachelor's 25
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 52
  • L-1 7
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 4
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 3
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY 2
  • YALE UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 11
  • ECONOMICS 5
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • FINANCIAL ENGINEERING 3
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2

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 Data Scientists, 8 of 26. 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 26 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 1,651. 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 26 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 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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