Updated
PERM sponsor, #2,510 of 70,985 by filings
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 10 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. has 10 PERM cases waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Software Developers · 89% of its filings
- Main worksite
- San Diego, CA · 83% of its filings
- Industry
- Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing · NAICS 334220
Waiting on a case with Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
18 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
18
#2,510 of 70,985
Certified
18
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 18 decided
Median wage
$124,631
offered, per year
Median days
498
32 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
10
of 22 tracked cases. The other 12 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed March 2, 2026, 7 months ago.
Where those 10 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 10100%
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.
Follow Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
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-100-26288-303452 Staff Software Development Engineer filed 2026-10-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26243-204620 Senior Camera Software and Development Engineer filed 2026-08-31 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26240-201639 Senior Camera Software Engineer filed 2026-08-28 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26204-120640 Staff Embedded Software Development Engineer filed 2026-07-23 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26134-912269 Senior Camera Software Engineer filed 2026-05-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26134-911584 Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer filed 2026-05-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26133-906720 Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer filed 2026-05-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26133-906092 Senior Camera Software Engineer filed 2026-05-13 · 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.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 28,615 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 80,983 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)
- 18 published
- 10 pending
- $124,631 median, n=18
- Prevailing wage requests
- 51 published
- 3 pending
- $108,969 median, n=51
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 818 published
- 2 pending
- $120,224 median, n=816
Its median H-1B wage is $120,224 across 816 LCAs, 3.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $124,631 across 18 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, 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 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26281-289471 Staff Embedded Systems Software Engineer 2026-10-08 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26223-161654 Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer 2026-08-11 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26218-151664 Staff Software SoC Performance Engineer 2026-08-06 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26139-925892 Staff Software Applications Development Engineer 2026-05-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26105-794200 Staff Embedded Platforms Software Engineer 2026-04-15 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26287-299244 Senior Software Engineer 2026-10-14 · IN PROCESS
- I-200-26282-291045 Staff Software Engineer 2026-10-09 · IN PROCESS
- I-200-26252-222787 Senior Staff Software Engineer 2026-09-09 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26246-212913 Staff Software Engineer 2026-09-03 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26245-210331 Senior GPU Software Engineer 2026-09-02 · 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: 818 LCAs filed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., 804 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
7,655 positions for new employment, 4,627 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 7,655 · 36%
- Change of employer 7e 4,627 · 22%
- Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
- Change in previous employment 7c 4,483 · 21%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 4,596 · 22%
Shares of the 21,356 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 2 · 1%
- Level II 371 · 53%
- Level III 189 · 27%
- Level IV 138 · 20%
Shares of the 700 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; 104 of 804 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 May 14, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 764 of 764 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 818. 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.
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
10 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 90% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
138 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 98% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
25% of 4,815 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 74% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
53% of 123 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 69% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
97.6% of 165 USCIS decisions
Higher than 37% 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 2026-05-21).
- It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
498 daysmiddle of 18 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 18 and 19 filings.
- Their median wait
- 468 days
- This one
- 498 days
This one sits 30 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 2,510 of 70,985 by volume: 2,509 filed at least as many filings, and 68,475 filed no more.
- Just above
- Voya Services Company 18 filings
- Just below
- BBDOTQ USA, Inc. 18 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #2,509 Voya Services Company 18 filings · 1 denied
- #2,511 BBDOTQ USA, Inc. 18 filings · none denied
- #2,508 BECKMAN COULTER, INC. 18 filings · none denied
- #2,512 Perigon Infotech Inc 18 filings · none denied
- #2,507 CollectiveHealth, Inc. 18 filings · none denied
- #2,513 DoubleVerify Inc. 18 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 · 16 filings, 89% of everything they file
- Information Security Analysts 15-1212.001
- Sales Engineers 41-9031.001
How this is counted
These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 18 of 18 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
Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
NAICS 334220 · 18 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 15
- Texas 2
- Colorado 1
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 3 states cover 18 of 18 filings.
Where the work is
- San Diego, CA 15
- Austin, TX 2
- Boulder, CO 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 18 of 18 filings.
Who files for them
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP 18 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 18 of 18 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 10 cases
The San Diego Union-Tribune
- 1 cases
Austin American-Statesman
- 1 cases
Daily Camera
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
- 12 cases
Campus placement offices
- 12 cases
Job search websites
- 12 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
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
- 50%
60 to 89 days
- 42%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 8.3%
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 2010
490 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2015 with 67.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2010 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 61 | 4 | 1 |
| FY2013 | 32 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2014 | 45 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2015 | 62 | 2 | 3 |
| FY2016 | 34 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 212. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22255-19760 | 2023-09-20 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $132,330 |
| A-22244-15329 | 2023-09-20 | certified | Senior Low Level Software Development Engineer, CA | $112,537 |
| A-22228-06695 | 2023-08-24 | certified | Staff DSP Architecture and Design Engineer, CA | $187,080 |
| A-22266-27530 | 2023-08-22 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $101,109 |
| A-22210-96888 | 2023-07-27 | certified | Senior GPU Software Engineer, CA | $184,080 |
| A-22208-95932 | 2023-05-18 | certified | Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $114,784 |
| A-22178-78511 | 2023-05-15 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $119,780 |
| A-22140-58399 | 2023-02-24 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $119,780 |
The other 17
| A-22108-41883 | 2023-02-17 | certified | Staff Camera Software Engineer, CA | $120,224 |
| A-22088-32397 | 2023-01-23 | certified | Staff Multimedia Embedded Software Engineer, CA | $150,538 |
| A-22049-13321 | 2022-11-02 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $101,109 |
| A-21327-76880 | 2022-10-05 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $101,109 |
| A-21242-37535 | 2022-06-30 | certified | Embedded Software Integration Engineer, TX | $73,362 |
| A-21314-70770 | 2022-06-23 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $103,992 |
| A-21314-70726 | 2022-06-23 | certified | Senior Multimedia Embedded Software Engineer, CA | $114,198 |
| A-21245-39180 | 2022-06-21 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $111,800 |
| A-21243-38058 | 2022-06-21 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $103,992 |
| A-21140-89348 | 2022-06-21 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $103,992 |
| A-21295-62061 | 2022-05-24 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $106,422 |
| A-21295-62011 | 2022-05-24 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $104,604 |
| A-21295-61935 | 2022-05-24 | certified | Staff Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $138,277 |
| A-21295-61898 | 2022-05-24 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $102,564 |
| A-21287-58365 | 2022-05-20 | certified | Senior Low Level Software Development Engineer, CA | $106,439 |
| A-21168-02636 | 2022-05-12 | certified | Senior Embedded Software Development Engineer, CA | $104,604 |
| A-21286-57765 | 2022-05-02 | certified | Senior Software Development Engineer, TX | $136,539 |
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 164
- China 18
- Canada 8
- Mexico 4
- Taiwan 4
- Bangladesh 2
Worker's education
- Master's 137
- Bachelor's 73
- Doctorate 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 180
- L-1 26
- F-1 4
- H-1B1 1
- TN 1
Schools
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 7
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY 7
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 7
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 5
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON 5
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 5
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 58
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 38
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 31
- ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 20
- ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 16
- COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 7
Notes on these numbers
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The 3 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #2,510 counts this page's cases only.
- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 170 filings
- Qualcomm Incorporated 10 filings
- Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. 8 filings
188 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Software Developers, 16 of 18. 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 18 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 2,510. 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 18 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 18, 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.