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PERM sponsor, #15 of 70,985 by filings

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA Corporation sponsors green cards: it filed 698 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 19, 2026. NVIDIA Corporation has 462 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 42% of its filings
Main worksite
Santa Clara, CA · 86% of its filings
Industry
Electronic Computer Manufacturing · NAICS 334111

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Filings

1,772

#15 of 70,985

Certified

1,575

102 denied

Approval

93.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$180,052

offered, per year

Median days

482

16 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 2,580 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

462

of 2,580 tracked cases. The other 2,118 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 12, 2025, 11 months ago.

Where those 462 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
461100%

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

RFI ISSUED
1<1%

DOL has asked the employer for more documentation. The deadline is the one printed on the RFI letter, because DOL doesn't publish a standard response window for these.

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 2,580 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 2,580, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 1 DOL certified 25 of its cases
  2. September 30 DOL certified 33 of its cases
  3. September 29 DOL certified 47 of its cases
  4. September 28 DOL certified 33 of its cases
  5. August 30 DOL certified 50 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.

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. NVIDIA Corporation

    median of 280 decisions in the last 90 days

    291 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,263 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,773 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
1,772 published
462 pending
$180,052 median, n=1,771
Prevailing wage requests
2,855 published
229 pending
$179,421 median, n=2,285
H-1B labor condition applications
8,711 published
35 pending
$173,329 median, n=8,696

Its median H-1B wage is $173,329 across 8,696 LCAs, 3.7% lower than its median PERM wage of $180,052 across 1,771 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 462 pending PERM cases, 1 (0.2%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 at RFI. 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, 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 NVIDIA 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: 8,711 LCAs filed by NVIDIA Corporation, 8,570 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

53,008 positions for new employment, 25,845 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 53,008 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 25,845 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 25,735 · 17%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 22,334 · 15%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 19 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 20,927 · 14%

Shares of the 147,849 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 180 · 3%
  • Level II 1,021 · 16%
  • Level III 1,145 · 18%
  • Level IV 3,850 · 62%

Shares of the 6,196 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; 2,374 of 8,570 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 7,296 of 8,369 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 8,633. 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 8,627 · E-3 (Australia) 69 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 15. 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

    93.9% of 1,677 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 7% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    698 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 13,965 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    4,140 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    16% of 63,124 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 55% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    82% of 3,009 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 94% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.4% of 4,771 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

93.9%ahead of 7%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

482 daysahead of 25%

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 74 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 456 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
460 days
This one
482 days

This one sits 22 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 15 of 70,985 by volume: 14 filed at least as many filings, and 70,970 filed no more.

Just above
Stoughton Trailers, LLC 1,878 filings
Just below
South Georgia Pecan Company 1,718 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 · 749 filings, 42% of everything they file · 92.4% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 1,508 of 1,772 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

Electronic Computer Manufacturing

NAICS 334111 · 1,132 filings

  • Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing 33411639
  • Computer Storage Device Manufacturing 3341121
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 1,520
  • Texas 122
  • Washington 53
  • Massachusetts 37
  • North Carolina 16
  • Oregon 16
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 1,764 of 1,772 filings.

Where the work is

  • Santa Clara, CA 1,520
  • Austin, TX 120
  • Redmond, WA 45
  • Westford, MA 30
  • Durham, NC 16
  • Hillsboro, OR 16
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 1,747 of 1,772 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 1,771 filings · 93.9% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 1,771 of 1,772 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    1,291 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    95 cases

  3. The Seattle Times

    45 cases

  4. Boston Sunday Globe

    13 cases

  5. The Boston Globe

    12 cases

  6. The Oregonian

    10 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. Local or ethnic newspapers

    1,490 cases

  2. Job search websites

    1,488 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    1,194 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    295 cases

  5. The employer's website

    2 cases

  6. On-campus recruiting

    1 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

    6.4%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    17%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    56%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.3%
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

5,375 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 843.

  • 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 51 1 0
FY2009 27 0 2
FY2010 174 2 6
FY2011 92 0 1
FY2012 176 1 7
FY2013 96 3 4
FY2014 142 1 8
FY2015 145 0 7
FY2016 234 0 6
FY2017 159 0 1
FY2018 212 2 3
FY2019 210 1 4
FY2020 370 4 4
FY2021 518 9 36
FY2022 449 13 21
FY2023 362 4 35
FY2024 280 2 29
FY2025 573 0 45
FY2026 722 100 21

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 2,657. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22228-06296 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Physical Design Engineer, CA $185,000
A-22159-68018 2023-09-27 certified ASIC Verification Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22279-35212 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Architect, TX $217,250
A-22189-85078 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $155,000
A-22186-83006 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22159-68021 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22134-55320 2023-09-27 certified Architect, CA $155,000
A-22185-82953 2023-09-27 certified Sr. Program Manager, CA $193,732
The other 17
A-22222-03317 2023-09-26 certified Sr. Verification Engineer, CA $195,000
A-22222-03292 2023-09-26 certified ASIC Engineer, CA $140,000
A-22160-68808 2023-09-26 certified Sr. Verification Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22294-44048 2023-09-22 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22294-43978 2023-09-22 certified Sr. Software QA Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22293-43478 2023-09-22 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $225,000
A-22279-34363 2023-09-22 certified Systems Software Engineer, CA $140,000
A-22224-04845 2023-09-22 certified IT Advisory Developer, CA $157,477
A-22183-82760 2023-09-21 certified Sr. Systems Design Engineer, CA $185,000
A-22202-92165 2023-09-21 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $225,000
A-22031-05220 2023-09-21 certified Architect, CA $155,000
A-22188-84383 2023-09-14 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $155,000
A-22187-83681 2023-09-14 certified Sr. Software Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22166-72076 2023-09-13 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $210,000
A-22299-46613 2023-09-12 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22262-23409 2023-09-05 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, NY $163,000
A-21107-75339 2023-09-05 certified Sr. Systems Software Engineer, CA $192,941

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 1,634
  • China 452
  • Canada 178
  • Taiwan 57
  • South Korea 30
  • France 25

Worker's education

  • Master's 1,958
  • Bachelor's 462
  • Doctorate 227
  • Other 10

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,927
  • F-1 428
  • L-1 118
  • TN 86
  • NOT IN USA 35
  • E-3 14

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 194
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 148
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 130
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 80
  • UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 74
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 57

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 513
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 437
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 376
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 317
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 65
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 51

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, 749 of 1,772. 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 1,772 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 15. 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 1,677 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 19, 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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