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PERM sponsor, #206 of 70,985 by filings

NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION

NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION sponsors green cards: it filed 58 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 22, 2026. NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION has 27 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · 19% of its filings
Main worksite
Dallas, TX · 47% of its filings
Industry
All Other Telecommunications · NAICS 517919

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This rate is level with the field

Over 178 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

186

#206 of 70,985

Certified

176

2 denied

Approval

98.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$141,400

offered, per year

Median days

487

21 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 277 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

27

of 277 tracked cases. The other 250 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 27, 2026, 7 months ago.

Where those 27 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
27100%

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 277 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 277, 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

  1. October 23 DOL certified 11 of its cases

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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-100-26265-250888 Manager, Supply Chain Project (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-09-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26265-250925 Core Network Solutions Engineer (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-09-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26265-250979 Engineering Support (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-09-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26261-244996 SON - Solution Engineer (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-09-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26261-245147 Lead Diagnostic Software and Firmware Development Engineer filed 2026-09-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26261-245266 Lead Diagnostic Software and Firmware Development Engineer filed 2026-09-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26260-243231 Regional PLM, Manageability (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-09-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26240-201538 Unit Design Validation Engineer (Multiple Positions) filed 2026-08-28 · ANALYST REVIEW

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 NOKIA OF AMERICA 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.

  • November 12, 2020, layoff, 189 employees, Du Page County, effective December 1, 2020. Illinois WARN report 2000 Lucent Drive, Naperville, IL 60563

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION

    median of 32 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 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 79,979 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)
186 published
27 pending
$141,400 median, n=186
Prevailing wage requests
379 published
19 pending
$133,432 median, n=364
H-1B labor condition applications
1,948 published
3 pending
$133,718 median, n=1,945

Its median H-1B wage is $133,718 across 1,945 LCAs, 5.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $141,400 across 186 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 NOKIA OF AMERICA 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: 1,948 LCAs filed by NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION, 1,926 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

594 positions for new employment, 228 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 594 · 31%
  • Change of employer 7e 228 · 12%
  • Continuing 7b 885 · 46%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 35 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 184 · 10%

Shares of the 1,926 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 121 · 8%
  • Level II 507 · 34%
  • Level III 375 · 25%
  • Level IV 497 · 33%

Shares of the 1,500 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; 426 of 1,926 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 1,779 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,944. 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 1,941 · E-3 (Australia) 4 · H-1B1 (Chile) 3. 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

    98.9% of 178 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 25% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    58 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    567 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

    8.3% of 636 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 31% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    62% of 530 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 77% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.5% of 716 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 36% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.9%ahead of 25%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

487 daysahead of 18%

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 142 and 259 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
487 days

This one sits 23 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 206 of 70,985 by volume: 205 filed at least as many filings, and 70,779 filed no more.

Just above
Deere & Company 186 filings
Just below
Akamai Technologies, Inc. 185 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

SOC 15-1253.00 · 36 filings, 19% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 134 of 186 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

All Other Telecommunications

NAICS 517919, 517810, 5178, 51781 · 182 filings

  • Other Telecommunications 517914
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

  • Texas 90
  • California 46
  • New Jersey 22
  • Washington 11
  • Illinois 5
  • North Carolina 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 179 of 186 filings.

Where the work is

  • Dallas, TX 88
  • Sunnyvale, CA 46
  • Murray Hill, NJ 21
  • Bellevue, WA 11
  • Naperville, IL 5
  • Raleigh, NC 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 176 of 186 filings.

Who files for them

  1. KPMG Law LLP 165 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Fragomen Partners, LLP 21 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 186 of 186 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    80 cases

  2. The Mercury News

    36 cases

  3. The Star-Ledger

    16 cases

  4. The Seattle Times

    9 cases

  5. Chicago Tribune

    5 cases

  6. The Boston Globe

    3 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

    163 cases

  2. Job search websites

    163 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    163 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

    6.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    18%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    21%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    54%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.6%
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 2018

501 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 121.

  • 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
FY2018 57 0 3
FY2019 60 0 0
FY2020 58 0 1
FY2021 59 0 0
FY2022 34 0 0
FY2023 41 0 2
FY2024 21 2 2
FY2025 37 0 3
FY2026 118 0 3

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 315. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22277-32847 2023-09-22 certified Software Quality Assurance Engineer, CA $168,834
A-22277-32832 2023-09-22 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $90,000
A-22277-32776 2023-09-13 certified RF Design Engineer, R&D, TX $90,000
A-22209-96339 2023-07-27 certified Solution Integration Specialist, TX $105,000
A-22209-96230 2023-07-05 certified Senior Visual Designer, CA $120,000
A-22209-96501 2023-07-05 certified Software Quality Assurance Engineer, CA $110,000
A-22213-97717 2023-07-05 certified Solution Engineer, TX $128,315
A-22174-77125 2023-06-12 certified System Security & Basis Lead, TX $150,000
The other 17
A-22175-77701 2023-06-06 certified Test Engineer, IOT, TX $108,160
A-22277-32731 2023-06-01 withdrawn FN Americas RBC Customer Engineer, TX $102,000
A-22175-77770 2023-05-25 certified Technical Leader, IODT, TX $108,177
A-22175-77775 2023-05-24 certified Software Test Engineer, CA $134,678
A-22175-77754 2023-05-12 certified Software Quality Assurance Engineer, CA $122,651
A-22174-76948 2023-05-10 certified Performance and Optimization Expert, WA $142,272
A-22174-77047 2023-05-10 certified System Support Engineer, TX $103,874
A-22174-76883 2023-05-10 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $156,847
A-22143-59616 2023-04-24 certified Solution Architect, TX $104,987
A-22147-62258 2023-04-24 certified Technical Program Manager (Solution Architect) *See Section H.14, WA $165,510
A-22143-59398 2023-04-24 certified System Integration Specialist, NJ $121,634
A-22156-66388 2023-04-19 certified 5G IODT Engineer, TX $98,000
A-22155-66179 2023-04-11 certified America’s Customer Engineer, NJ $105,234
A-22158-67504 2023-03-24 certified ION Optics NM Resident Engineer, NJ $135,824
A-22156-66325 2023-03-24 certified Software Development Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22166-72644 2023-03-13 certified Sr. Technical Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22116-46203 2023-03-03 certified Network Software Developer, WA $102,297

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 209
  • China 21
  • Canada 11
  • France 7
  • Mexico 7
  • Brazil 5

Worker's education

  • Master's 151
  • Bachelor's 148
  • Other 8
  • Doctorate 7
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 217
  • L-1 92
  • L-2 2
  • TN 2
  • E-2 1
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 15
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 11
  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 9
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 7
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 49
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 43
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 39
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 33
  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING 14
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 12

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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, 36 of 186. 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 186 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 206. 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 178 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 TX. 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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