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PERM sponsor, #4,488 of 70,985 by filings
Penney OpCo LLC
Penney OpCo LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 4 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on December 5, 2025. Penney OpCo LLC has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Software Developers · 60% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Plano, TX · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Department Stores · NAICS 452210
Waiting on a case with Penney OpCo LLC?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
10 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
10
#4,488 of 70,985
Certified
10
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 10 decided
Median wage
$139,464
offered, per year
Median days
496
30 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.
Waiting on a decision
1
of 14 tracked cases. The other 13 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed December 5, 2025, 10 months ago.
Where those 1 are standing
- RFI ISSUED
- 1100%
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.
Follow Penney OpCo LLC
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.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-100-25339-461179 Front End Engineer II filed 2025-12-05 · RFI ISSUED
- G-100-25323-422832 Lead Engineer - Order Management filed 2025-11-19 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25323-422045 Senior Engineer filed 2025-11-19 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25307-364318 Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering filed 2025-11-03 · CERTIFIED
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
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 28,776 decisions in the same 90 days
Only 3 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 80,916 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
- 10 published
- 1 pending
- $139,464 median, n=10
- Prevailing wage requests
- 12 published
- 0 pending
- $129,022 median, n=12
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 101 published
- 0 pending
- $134,992 median, n=100
Its median H-1B wage is $134,992 across 100 LCAs, 3.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $139,464 across 10 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 Penney OpCo LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-25139-993678 Financial Planning Manager – Ecommerce Logistics & Transform $138,070 per year 2025-05-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25065-752836 Engineer 2 - POS Tester $129,022 per year 2025-03-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24345-529500 Engineer 2 - POS Tester $126,131 per year 2024-12-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24310-455273 Senior Engineer $123,635 per year 2024-11-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24299-433027 Front End Engineer II $149,781 per year 2024-10-25 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-25343-467956 Vice President Technology-Digital & Platform Engineering $365,000 per year 2025-12-09 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25265-326120 Senior Engineer - Site Reliability $140,731 per year 2025-09-22 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25259-312924 Senior Engineer - Enterprise Fulfillment & Order Management $140,000 per year 2025-09-16 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25252-297615 Senior Engineer $142,800 per year 2025-09-09 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25216-219135 Senior Engineer $142,800 per year 2025-08-04 · 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: 101 LCAs filed by Penney OpCo LLC, 94 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
5 positions for new employment, 50 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 5 · 5%
- Change of employer 7e 50 · 53%
- Continuing 7b 36 · 38%
- Change in previous employment 7c 2 · 2%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 1 · 1%
Shares of the 94 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 1 · 1%
- Level II 6 · 7%
- Level III 19 · 21%
- Level IV 65 · 71%
Shares of the 91 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; 3 of 94 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 December 9, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 99 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 100. 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 100 · E-3 (Australia) 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.
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.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
4 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 75% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
15 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 78% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
22% of 23 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 69% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
95% of 22 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 99% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
97.1% of 34 USCIS decisions
Higher than 31% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
496 daysmiddle of 10 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 10 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 474 days
- This one
- 496 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 4,488 of 70,985 by volume: 4,487 filed at least as many filings, and 66,497 filed no more.
- Just above
- MM1 INC. 10 filings
- Just below
- Premium Brands Services, LLC 10 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #4,487 MM1 INC. 10 filings · none denied
- #4,489 Premium Brands Services, LLC 10 filings · none denied
- #4,486 MEDEIROS SOUZA CORP 10 filings · none denied
- #4,490 Ocusun LLC 10 filings · 1 denied
- #4,485 GE DIGITAL HOLDINGS LLC 10 filings · none denied
- #4,491 Moderna Services, Inc. 10 filings · none denied
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
SOC 15-1252.00 · 6 filings, 60% of everything they file
- Data Scientists 15-2051.001
- Data Warehousing Specialists 15-1243.011
- General and Operations Managers 11-1021.001
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.001
How this is counted
These are the 5 occupations with the most filings, 10 of 10 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
Department Stores
NAICS 452210, 455110 · 10 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
- Texas 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. This state covers 10 of 10 filings.
Where the work is
- Plano, TX 10
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 10 of 10 filings.
Who files for them
- Ogletree Deakins 7 filings
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 2 filings
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 10 of 10 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 10 cases
The Dallas Morning News
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
- 10 cases
Job search websites
- 10 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 10 cases
Radio or TV ads
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 20%
60 to 89 days
- 20%
90 to 119 days
- 20%
120 to 149 days
- 40%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2021
20 PERM decisions from FY2021 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 8.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 10. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22272-30925 | 2023-08-30 | certified | Site Reliability Engineer - Engineer II, TX | $115,000 |
| A-21335-79648 | 2022-06-29 | certified | Senior Engineer, TX | $128,315 |
| A-21295-61977 | 2022-06-01 | certified | Engineer 2, TX | $110,344 |
| A-21298-62940 | 2022-05-31 | certified | Engineer II, TX | $135,000 |
| A-21288-59275 | 2022-05-02 | certified | Senior Engineer, Big Data Analytics, TX | $99,501 |
| A-21298-63134 | 2022-03-10 | withdrawn | Engineer 2, TX | $117,026 |
| A-21167-02171 | 2021-12-06 | certified | Engineer I (Site Reliability), TX | $127,150 |
| A-21131-84804 | 2021-11-01 | certified | Engineer 2 - Payment Systems, TX | $127,712 |
The other 2
| A-21132-85672 | 2021-10-26 | certified | Front-End Senior Engineer, TX | $127,150 |
| A-21072-61845 | 2021-09-29 | certified | Technical Product Manager, TX | $119,881 |
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 10
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 6
- Master's 4
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 10
Schools
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 3
- BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY 1
- KALINGA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY 1
- MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY 1
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 1
- SRI INDU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 1
Fields of study
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
- ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 1
- ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING 1
- ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING 1
- INFORMATION 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 Software Developers, 6 of 10. 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 10 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 4,488. 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 10 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 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.