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PERM sponsor, #12,053 of 70,985 by filings
OPERATION TECHNOLOGY, INC DBA ETAP
- Main job
- Electrical Engineers · 75% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Irvine, CA · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511
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Too few cases for a rate
4 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
4
#12,053 of 70,985
Certified
4
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 4 decided
Median wage
$101,254
offered, per year
Median days
396
middle of 4 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.
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)
- 4 published
- no live read
- 4 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
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 3 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.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
95.2% of 21 USCIS decisions
Higher than 15% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
396 daysmiddle of 4 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 3 and 4 filings.
- Their median wait
- 395 days
- This one
- 396 days
This one sits 1 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 12,053 of 70,985 by volume: 12,052 filed at least as many filings, and 58,932 filed no more.
- Just above
- OZONE NETWORK INC. dba OPENSEA 4 filings
- Just below
- VSC IMPORTS TA MEDITERRANEAN CATERING 4 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #12,052 OZONE NETWORK INC. dba OPENSEA 4 filings · none denied
- #12,054 VSC IMPORTS TA MEDITERRANEAN CATERING 4 filings · none denied
- #12,051 Bojadzic Construction LLC 4 filings · none denied
- #12,055 A Cut Above Lawn Service, Inc. 4 filings · none denied
- #12,050 G L CARE HOME 4 filings · none denied
- #12,056 Carepoint Dental PLLC 4 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Electrical Engineers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #4 APPLE INC. 2,813 filings · 6 denied
- #322 Texas Instruments Incorporated 114 filings · none denied
- #122 General Motors Company 297 filings · 1 denied
- #1,871 Diversified Automation Inc 24 filings · none denied
- #525 Ericsson Inc. 71 filings · none denied
- #1 Microsoft Corporation 6,875 filings · 45 denied
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
SOC 17-2071 · 3 filings, 75% of everything they file
How this is counted
These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 4 of 4 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 · 4 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 4
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. This state covers 4 of 4 filings.
Where the work is
- Irvine, CA 4
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 4 of 4 filings.
Who files for them
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy LLP 4 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 4 of 4 filings, 100% of the total.
History
Year by year since 2017
29 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2024, busiest in FY2018 with 8.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 25. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-21137-87594 | 2022-03-25 | certified | Senior Power Engineer, CA | $94,619 |
| A-21132-85914 | 2021-11-23 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer, CA | $94,619 |
| A-20233-90655 | 2021-05-07 | certified | Senior Power Engineer, CA | $91,936 |
| A-20202-78629 | 2021-03-02 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer - Automation, CA | $91,936 |
| A-20070-29086 | 2020-08-12 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer, Transmission, CA | $105,664 |
| A-19362-00548 | 2020-05-15 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer, CA | $91,936 |
| A-19344-93327 | 2020-05-15 | certified | Senior Power Engineer, CA | $91,936 |
| A-19343-92836 | 2020-05-15 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer - Transmission & Distribution, CA | $97,157 |
The other 17
| A-19337-90239 | 2020-05-14 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer - DataX, CA | $97,157 |
| A-19339-91488 | 2020-05-13 | certified | Electrical Engineer - Cable & LV, CA | $84,000 |
| A-19337-90056 | 2020-05-05 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer - DataX, CA | $97,157 |
| A-19343-92858 | 2020-05-01 | certified | Senior Electrical Engineer - Transmission & Distribution, CA | $97,157 |
| A-18172-89543 | 2019-01-24 | denied | Electrical Engineer, CA | $86,840 |
| A-17311-08102 | 2018-08-01 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $86,840 |
| A-17213-70940 | 2018-05-11 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $92,290 |
| A-17317-10130 | 2018-05-03 | certified | Software Engineer, CA | $78,083 |
| A-17311-08068 | 2018-04-19 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $86,840 |
| A-17311-07965 | 2018-04-16 | certified | Automation Engineer, CA | $66,227 |
| A-17284-97601 | 2018-03-20 | certified | Sr. Power Engineer, CA | $112,091 |
| A-16260-53431 | 2018-03-20 | certified | Electrical Engineering Manager, CA | $152,630 |
| A-17163-49793 | 2018-01-12 | certified | Power Engineer, CA | $92,290 |
| A-17103-24838 | 2017-09-15 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $92,290 |
| A-17163-49779 | 2017-08-01 | withdrawn | Electrical Engineer, CA | $92,290 |
| A-16266-55516 | 2016-12-02 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $76,731 |
| A-16260-53572 | 2016-11-30 | certified | Electrical Engineer, CA | $76,731 |
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 11
- India 11
- Iran 2
- South Korea 1
Worker's education
- Master's 24
- Bachelor's 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 23
- F-1 2
Schools
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 11
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 5
- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE 3
- CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA 1
- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES 1
- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH 1
Fields of study
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 21
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 1
- ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (POWER, CONTROL AND SYSTEMS) 1
- POWER AND CONTROL SYSTEMS 1
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 Electrical Engineers, 3 of 4. 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 4 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 12,053. 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 4 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. 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
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.