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PERM sponsor, #289 of 70,985 by filings

NetApp, Inc.

NetApp, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 12 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 19, 2026. NetApp, Inc. has 12 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 67% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 47% of its filings
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

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Filings

129

#289 of 70,985

Certified

128

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$141,500

offered, per year

Median days

419

47 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 90 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

12

of 90 tracked cases. The other 78 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 13, 2024, 29 months ago.

Where those 12 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1192%

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

BALCA APPEALS
18%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

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 90 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 90, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 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 30,678 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 80,135 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)
129 published
12 pending
$141,500 median, n=129
Prevailing wage requests
87 published
10 pending
$154,482 median, n=84
H-1B labor condition applications
1,315 published
1 pending
$146,500 median, n=1,311

Its median H-1B wage is $146,500 across 1,311 LCAs, 3.5% higher than its median PERM wage of $141,500 across 129 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 12 pending PERM cases, 1 (8.3%) 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 NetApp, 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: 1,315 LCAs filed by NetApp, Inc., 1,290 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

372 positions for new employment, 250 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 372 · 26%
  • Change of employer 7e 250 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 482 · 33%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 210 · 15%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 127 · 9%

Shares of the 1,441 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 22 · 4%
  • Level II 105 · 18%
  • Level III 12 · 2%
  • Level IV 446 · 76%

Shares of the 585 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; 705 of 1,290 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,223 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,306. 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 1,305 · E-3 (Australia) 6 · H-1B1 (Chile) 3 · 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

    100.0% of 128 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    12 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 92% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    319 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    14% of 371 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 49% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    78% of 166 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 91% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.8% of 456 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 40% 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

419 daysahead of 81%

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 105 and 171 filings.

Their median wait
471 days
This one
419 days

This one sits 52 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 289 of 70,985 by volume: 288 filed at least as many filings, and 70,696 filed no more.

Just above
Medline Industries, LP 129 filings
Just below
Runnells Operating, LLC. 128 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 · 86 filings, 67% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 111 of 129 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 129 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

  • California 61
  • North Carolina 50
  • Massachusetts 11
  • Colorado 3
  • Pennsylvania 3
  • Kansas 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 129 of 129 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 61
  • Durham, NC 50
  • Waltham, MA 11
  • Boulder, CO 3
  • Cranberry Township, PA 3
  • Wichita, KS 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 129 of 129 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 94 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 94 of 129 filings, 73% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    38 cases

  2. The News & Observer

    20 cases

  3. Boston Sunday Globe

    4 cases

  4. The Denver Post

    3 cases

  5. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    1 cases

  6. The Wichita Eagle

    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. Job search websites

    67 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    67 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    67 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

    51%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    18%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    18%

  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

1,191 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2016 with 156.

  • 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 6 0 0
FY2009 18 1 0
FY2010 31 0 1
FY2011 114 3 1
FY2012 102 0 5
FY2013 34 0 4
FY2014 88 0 2
FY2015 125 2 7
FY2016 150 1 5
FY2017 28 1 0
FY2018 80 0 1
FY2019 29 1 1
FY2020 24 1 2
FY2021 68 0 16
FY2022 66 0 0
FY2023 40 0 4
FY2024 61 0 1
FY2025 38 0 0
FY2026 29 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 518. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-23005-82662 2023-08-17 withdrawn Member Technical Staff, Software Engineer, NC $140,500
A-23004-82400 2023-08-17 withdrawn Member Technical Staff, Software Engineer, CA $141,500
A-22364-81009 2023-08-17 withdrawn Member Technical Staff, Software Engineer, NC $110,000
A-22203-93121 2023-08-11 certified UX Designer, CA $130,000
A-22145-60753 2023-08-10 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22138-57150 2023-08-10 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22124-50312 2023-08-10 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22124-50043 2023-08-10 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
The other 17
A-22236-10995 2023-08-07 certified Member Technical Staff, Software Engineer, WA $130,000
A-22229-07275 2023-07-25 certified Business Systems Analyst, CA $166,380
A-22122-48922 2023-07-07 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22108-42261 2023-07-07 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22238-12724 2023-07-03 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $150,250
A-22192-86001 2023-05-25 certified Member Technical Staff, Quality Assurance, CO $97,000
A-22220-01746 2023-05-23 certified Product Quality Engineer, PA $145,000
A-22216-00126 2023-05-22 certified Business Systems Analyst, CA $155,000
A-22087-31579 2023-05-09 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22173-76395 2023-04-21 certified Member Technical Staff, Quality Assurance, NC $125,500
A-22187-83860 2023-04-11 certified Systems Architect, CA $184,250
A-22053-14646 2023-04-03 certified Product Manager, CA $169,790
A-22152-64097 2023-03-27 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22115-45488 2023-03-03 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22145-60738 2023-03-02 certified Member Technical Staff, Software, MA $100,000
A-22129-52258 2023-02-16 certified Data Scientist, NC $175,000
A-22104-40982 2023-02-13 certified Product Manager, CA $211,500

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 462
  • China 22
  • Canada 5
  • Taiwan 4
  • Nepal 3
  • Sri Lanka 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 409
  • Bachelor's 91
  • Doctorate 7
  • None 7
  • Other 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 485
  • L-1 18
  • F-1 5
  • H-1B1 2
  • PAROLEE 2
  • TN 2

Schools

  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 51
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 29
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 26
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 25
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 13
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 13

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 180
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 78
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 44
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 21
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 21
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 14

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, 86 of 129. 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 129 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 289. 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 128 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 CA. 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 21, 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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