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Waiting on a case with NORTONLIFELOCK INC.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
2 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
2
#25,677 of 70,985
Certified
2
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 2 decided
Median wage
$137,200
offered, per year
Median days
484
middle of 2 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 23, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Layoff notices filed by NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
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.
- February 28, 2020, 2 employees, Collin, effective April 20, 2020. Texas WARN report Plano
- December 23, 2019, 8 employees, Collin, effective February 13, 2020. Texas WARN report Plano
- November 19, 2019, 34 employees, Collin, effective January 17, 2020. Texas WARN report Plano
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 31,712 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were 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)
- 2 published
- no live read
- 2 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 302 published
- 0 pending
- $135,000 median, n=302
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 NORTONLIFELOCK INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-22364-666619 Software Engineer 2022-12-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22287-529931 Product Manager 2022-10-14 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22264-486810 Software Engineer 2022-09-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22264-486753 Data Engineer (IT Applications) 2022-09-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22215-393488 Software Development Engineer 2022-08-03 · WITHDRAWN
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-22301-557708 Principal Software Engineer $125,323.83 per year 2022-10-28 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22287-530527 Principal Software Engineer $187,000 per year 2022-10-14 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22284-522034 Software Development Engineer $145,000 per year 2022-10-11 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22272-501325 Principal Software Engineer $146,727 per year 2022-09-29 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22270-496709 Principal Software Engineer $130,353.43 per year 2022-09-27 · CERTIFIED
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: 302 LCAs filed by NORTONLIFELOCK INC., 278 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
69 positions for new employment, 46 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 69 · 25%
- Change of employer 7e 46 · 17%
- Continuing 7b 127 · 46%
- Change in previous employment 7c 5 · 2%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 34 · 12%
Shares of the 278 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 5 · 2%
- Level II 79 · 35%
- Level III 37 · 16%
- Level IV 104 · 46%
Shares of the 225 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; 53 of 278 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 October 28, 2022. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 270 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 302. 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
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
484 daysmiddle of 2 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 2 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 368 days
- This one
- 484 days
This one sits 116 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 25,677 of 70,985 by volume: 25,676 filed at least as many filings, and 45,308 filed no more.
- Just above
- DICE IT SOLUTIONS LLC DBA TECHPROJECTS 2 filings
- Just below
- Jireh Solutions LLC 2 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #25,676 DICE IT SOLUTIONS LLC DBA TECHPROJECTS 2 filings · none denied
- #25,678 Jireh Solutions LLC 2 filings · none denied
- #25,675 NANTHEALTH, INC. 2 filings · none denied
- #25,679 NATIONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS 2 filings · none denied
- #25,674 TRENMOR LLC DBA LINESIGHT 2 filings · none denied
- #25,680 PsiQuantum Corp. 2 filings · none denied
History
Year by year since 2020
60 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2024, busiest in FY2021 with 26.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 58. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22264-25921 | 2023-08-23 | certified | Service Manager-IT Hosting, TX | $171,415 |
| A-22199-89952 | 2023-07-31 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $177,932 |
| A-22257-21221 | 2023-07-25 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $137,917 |
| A-22238-12826 | 2023-07-10 | certified | Research Engineer, CA | $180,000 |
| A-22224-04990 | 2023-07-07 | certified | Financial Analyst (Treasury Analyst), AZ | $112,479 |
| A-22196-89241 | 2023-07-06 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $173,500 |
| A-22213-97866 | 2023-06-07 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $140,000 |
| A-22108-42362 | 2023-05-16 | certified | Software QA Engineer, CA | $133,000 |
The other 17
| A-22089-33031 | 2023-05-16 | certified | Software QA Engineer, CA | $146,000 |
| A-22089-33022 | 2023-05-11 | certified | IT Applications Specialist, CA | $139,804 |
| A-22172-75571 | 2023-04-21 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $135,000 |
| A-22165-71740 | 2023-04-14 | certified | Senior User Research/Testing Engineer, CA | $149,800 |
| A-22088-32661 | 2023-02-23 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $184,080 |
| A-22018-99175 | 2022-12-29 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $123,906 |
| A-22059-16941 | 2022-12-07 | certified | Data Engineer, AZ | $129,375 |
| A-22059-16934 | 2022-12-07 | certified | Product Manager, AZ | $150,000 |
| A-22059-17001 | 2022-12-07 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $134,550 |
| A-22012-97276 | 2022-10-05 | certified | Information Security Analyst, AZ | $118,251 |
| A-22012-97273 | 2022-09-22 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $112,750 |
| A-21351-88017 | 2022-09-09 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $145,000 |
| A-21306-66747 | 2022-06-24 | certified | Automation Product Manager, AZ | $133,900 |
| A-21223-30091 | 2022-06-08 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $119,031 |
| A-21302-65607 | 2022-05-24 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $134,724 |
| A-21291-59973 | 2022-05-02 | certified | Product Manager, AZ | $153,500 |
| A-21259-45349 | 2022-03-25 | certified | Software Engineer, AZ | $106,920 |
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 47
- China 4
- Canada 3
- Vietnam 2
- Taiwan 1
- Venezuela 1
Worker's education
- Master's 36
- Bachelor's 21
- None 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 56
- L-1 1
Schools
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 4
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 3
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 2
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2
- SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 2
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 2
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 19
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 6
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 6
- ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 4
- APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 3
- COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2
Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- 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 2 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 25,677. 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 2 decided cases
- That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
- 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. 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
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.