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Niantic, Inc.

Niantic, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 5 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on December 23, 2025.

Main job
Software Developers · 73% of its filings
Main worksite
Sunnyvale, CA · 39% of its filings
Industry
Computer Systems Design and Related Services · NAICS 54151

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This rate is level with the field

Over 33 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 10.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

33

#1,261 of 70,985

Certified

33

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$181,900

offered, per year

Median days

468

2 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 34 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 34 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 34 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 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. Niantic, Inc.

    median of 5 decisions in the last 90 days

    283 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,882 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

18 days shorter than everyone's over this window. 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 80,100 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
33 published
0 pending
$181,900 median, n=33
Prevailing wage requests
50 published
0 pending
$163,862 median, n=43
H-1B labor condition applications
260 published
0 pending
$165,000 median, n=260

Its median H-1B wage is $165,000 across 260 LCAs, 9.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $181,900 across 33 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; 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 Niantic, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26093-753824 Software Engineer, Machine Learning 2026-04-03 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26093-753782 Staff Software Engineer 2026-04-03 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25342-466144 Senior Software Engineer $187,741 per year 2025-12-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25219-228445 Associate Data Scientist $174,304 per year 2025-08-07 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25217-223500 Technical Artist $87,526 per year 2025-08-05 · 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: 260 LCAs filed by Niantic, Inc., 248 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

134 positions for new employment, 225 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 134 · 24%
  • Change of employer 7e 225 · 40%
  • Continuing 7b 169 · 30%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 24 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 15 · 3%

Shares of the 567 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 16 · 7%
  • Level II 48 · 22%
  • Level III 78 · 35%
  • Level IV 79 · 36%

Shares of the 221 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; 27 of 248 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 May 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 217 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 252. 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 251 · E-3 (Australia) 8 · 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 33 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    5 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 80% of the 14,014 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    33 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 89% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    19% of 42 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 63% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    49% of 37 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 64% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 74 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% 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

468 daysahead of 46%

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 32 and 34 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
468 days

This one sits 6 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 1,261 of 70,985 by volume: 1,260 filed at least as many filings, and 69,724 filed no more.

Just above
Samsung Research America, Inc. 33 filings
Just below
Sidel Inc. 33 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 · 24 filings, 73% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 31 of 33 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

Computer Systems Design and Related Services

NAICS 54151 · 17 filings

  • Computer Systems Design Services 54151216
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 23
  • Washington 10
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 2 states cover 33 of 33 filings.

Where the work is

  • Sunnyvale, CA 13
  • Bellevue, WA 10
  • San Francisco, CA 9
  • Los Angeles, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 33 of 33 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 33 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 33 of 33 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    10 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    8 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronicle

    6 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

    24 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    24 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    24 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

    63%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    17%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    8.3%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    13%

  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 2017

89 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 29.

  • 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
FY2017 1 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 3 0 0
FY2020 4 1 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 29 0 0
FY2023 16 0 0
FY2024 10 0 0
FY2025 17 0 0
FY2026 6 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 56. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22179-79805 2023-09-07 certified Product Manager, CA $175,000
A-22178-78877 2023-09-06 certified Software Engineer, Site Reliability, WA $180,200
A-22117-47216 2023-09-06 certified Software Engineer, CA $200,000
A-22178-78834 2023-09-06 certified Software Engineer, CA $189,000
A-22118-47601 2023-09-01 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $207,500
A-22103-40363 2023-06-29 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $227,700
A-22103-39954 2023-06-26 certified Software Engineer, WA $187,300
A-22214-99021 2023-05-25 certified Manager, Business Operations, CA $189,100
The other 17
A-22179-80259 2023-04-19 certified Server Engineer, CA $168,800
A-22116-46575 2023-03-29 certified Data Scientist, CA $159,700
A-22175-77888 2023-03-20 certified Software Engineer, CA $238,500
A-22109-42905 2023-02-27 certified Software Engineer, WA $169,600
A-22137-56622 2023-02-23 certified Data Scientist, Game Analytics, CA $168,000
A-22112-44761 2023-02-22 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $231,200
A-22111-44462 2023-02-21 certified Software Engineer, CA $186,100
A-22118-47778 2023-02-17 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $237,600
A-21267-49752 2022-08-16 certified Product Manager, CA $150,000
A-21319-73207 2022-06-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $180,000
A-21307-67898 2022-06-07 certified Software Engineer, CA $102,000
A-21307-67833 2022-06-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $102,000
A-21293-61184 2022-05-24 certified Senior Programmer, CA $120,000
A-21273-52545 2022-05-13 certified Senior Software Engineer, WA $180,353
A-21225-31542 2022-05-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $147,000
A-21260-46581 2022-04-26 certified Software Engineer, Machine Learning, CA $160,000
A-21274-53041 2022-04-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $174,000

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

  • China 23
  • India 16
  • Canada 4
  • Taiwan 2
  • Australia 1
  • Costa Rica 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 42
  • Bachelor's 13
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 50
  • F-1 3
  • E-3 1
  • H-4 1
  • L-2 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 7
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFONIA 2
  • ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 13
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 4
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY 4
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2
  • 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 Software Developers, 24 of 33. 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 33 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 1,261. 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 33 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 22, 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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