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PERM sponsor, #7,151 of 70,985 by filings
Ropes & Gray LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP sponsors green cards: it filed 1 PERM case in the last 12 months, the newest on June 12, 2026. Ropes & Gray LLP has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Lawyers · 67% of its filings
- Main worksite
- New York, NY · 50% of its filings
- Industry
- Offices of Lawyers · NAICS 541110
Waiting on a case with Ropes & Gray LLP?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
5 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
6
#7,151 of 70,985
Certified
5
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 5 decided
Median wage
$295,000
offered, per year
Median days
430
middle of 5 decided
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 11 tracked cases. The other 10 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed June 12, 2026, 4 months ago.
Where those 1 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 1100%
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 Ropes & Gray LLP
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-100-26163-010142 Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Health Care filed 2026-06-12 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-25273-348605 Mid-Level Associate, Strategic Transactions Group (M&A) filed 2025-09-30 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25269-338635 Mid-Level Associate, Alternative Asset Opportunities filed 2025-09-26 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25269-338632 Mid-Level Associate, Alternative Asset Opportunities filed 2025-09-26 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25217-221607 Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions filed 2025-08-05 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25178-136761 Senior Associate (Lawyer), Strategic Transactions filed 2025-06-27 · 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 30,289 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 80,222 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
- 6 published
- 1 pending
- 6 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 20 published
- 0 pending
- $212,826 median, n=20
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 221 published
- 0 pending
- $255,000 median, n=219
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 Ropes & Gray LLP, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26135-916225 Senior Associate, Real Estate Investments and Transactions 2026-05-15 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25318-409249 Mid-Level Associate, Strategic Transactions $226,200 per year 2025-11-14 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25317-404725 Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Health Care $226,200 per year 2025-11-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25261-317593 Senior Associate, Real Estate Investments and Transactions $163,030 per year 2025-09-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25253-299633 Mid-Level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds) $215,530 per year 2025-09-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-202-26278-278981 Junior Associate (Lawyer), Alternative Asset Opportunities 2026-10-05 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26266-256300 Mid-Level Associate, Strategic Transactions Group (IP Trans) 2026-09-23 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26224-162881 Mid-Level Associate, Strategic Transactions Group (M&A) 2026-08-12 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26177-055613 Junior Associate (Lawyer), Alternative Asset Opportunities 2026-06-26 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26167-022546 Senior Associate, Strategic Transactions (IP Transactions) $435,000 per year 2026-06-16 · 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: 221 LCAs filed by Ropes & Gray LLP, 201 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
73 positions for new employment, 8 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 73 · 36%
- Change of employer 7e 8 · 4%
- Continuing 7b 43 · 21%
- Change in previous employment 7c 16 · 8%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 62 · 31%
Shares of the 202 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 58 · 29%
- Level II 59 · 30%
- Level III 38 · 19%
- Level IV 45 · 23%
Shares of the 200 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; 1 of 201 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 June 16, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 149 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 165. 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 165 · E-3 (Australia) 56. 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
1 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 22% of the 13,997 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
36 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 90% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
12% of 41 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 44% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
49% of 41 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 64% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
100.0% of 49 USCIS decisions
Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
430 daysmiddle of 5 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 6 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 478 days
- This one
- 430 days
This one sits 48 days ahead of 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 7,151 of 70,985 by volume: 7,150 filed at least as many filings, and 63,834 filed no more.
- Just above
- Senseonics, Incorporated 6 filings
- Just below
- Feedzai, Inc. 6 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #7,150 Senseonics, Incorporated 6 filings · none denied
- #7,152 Feedzai, Inc. 6 filings · none denied
- #7,149 SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. 6 filings · none denied
- #7,153 MAPFRE U.S.A. CORP 6 filings · none denied
- #7,148 Maddisoft LLC 6 filings · none denied
- #7,154 Rothschild & Co US Inc. 6 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Lawyers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #732 Latham & Watkins LLP 54 filings · none denied
- #1,209 KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 34 filings · none denied
- #2,241 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP 20 filings · none denied
- #2,204 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 20 filings · none denied
- #2,658 Sidley Austin (US) LLP 17 filings · none denied
- #3,256 Cooley LLP 14 filings · none 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 23-1011.00 · 4 filings, 67% of everything they file
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 19-1021.001
- Lawyers 23-10111
How this is counted
These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 6 of 6 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
Offices of Lawyers
NAICS 541110 · 6 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
- New York 3
- Massachusetts 2
- California 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 6 of 6 filings.
Where the work is
- New York, NY 3
- Boston, MA 2
- San Francisco, CA 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 6 of 6 filings.
Who files for them
- Pryor Cashman LLP 4 filings
- Ross Silverman Snyder Tietjen LLP 1 filings
- Savitz Law Offices, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 6 of 6 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 2 cases
The New York Times
- 1 cases
The Boston Globe
- 1 cases
Boston Sunday Globe
- 1 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
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
- 5 cases
Employee referral programs
- 5 cases
The employer's website
- 5 cases
Job search websites
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
- 60%
60 to 89 days
- 40%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 0.0%
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
44 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 6.
- 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2015 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 29. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22192-86282 | 2023-07-03 | certified | Mid-Level Assoc (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions (PET), NY | $134,014 |
| A-22193-86683 | 2023-05-08 | certified | Sr Associate (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions (PET), NY | $134,014 |
| A-22192-86201 | 2023-05-08 | certified | Mid-Level Assoc. (Lawyer), Tax, Employment & Benefits (Tax), NY | $87,880 |
| A-22026-03125 | 2022-10-19 | certified | Senior Private Equity Transactions Associate (Lawyer), CA | $155,522 |
| A-22005-94176 | 2022-10-05 | certified | Mid-Level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds), NY | $275,000 |
| A-21307-67580 | 2022-07-08 | certified | Senior Associate (Lawyer), Tax, Employment, & Benefits (Tax), NY | $134,014 |
| A-21307-67664 | 2022-07-07 | certified | Senior Associate (Lawyer), Tax, Employment, & Benefits (Tax), NY | $134,014 |
| A-21306-66854 | 2022-06-28 | certified | Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions (Finance), NY | $87,880 |
The other 17
| A-21306-66821 | 2022-06-28 | certified | Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions (Finance), NY | $87,880 |
| A-20296-12516 | 2021-05-27 | certified | Mid-Level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds), CA | $255,000 |
| A-20261-00956 | 2021-05-06 | certified | Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Tax, MA | $125,237 |
| A-20314-18439 | 2021-03-22 | withdrawn | Mid-Level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds), IL | $255,000 |
| A-20181-70635 | 2021-03-04 | certified | Finance Associate (Senior-Level), NY | $172,016 |
| A-20150-59722 | 2021-02-16 | certified | Private Equity Transactions Associate (Senior-Level), NY | $305,000 |
| A-20296-12533 | 2020-11-09 | withdrawn | Mid-Level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds), IL | $255,000 |
| A-19291-72685 | 2020-04-06 | certified | Private Equity Transaction Associate (Mid-Level), NY | $126,006 |
| A-19213-38575 | 2019-11-01 | certified | Operational & Logistical Strategy Specialist-West Coast & Asia, NY | $120,016 |
| A-18318-41304 | 2019-06-07 | certified | MID-LEVEL ASSOCIATE (LAWYER), IP LITIGATION, NY | $81,931 |
| A-18284-28164 | 2019-06-07 | certified | Mid-Level Licensing/Venture Capital Life Sciences Associate, MA | $124,550 |
| A-18288-29069 | 2019-02-20 | certified | Private Equity Transaction Associate (Mid-Level), NY | $130,686 |
| A-18285-28552 | 2018-11-14 | withdrawn | MID-LEVEL ASSOCIATE (LAWYER), IP LITIGATION, MA | $81,931 |
| A-18040-41834 | 2018-07-16 | certified | IP Litigation and IP Transactions Associate (Jr), CA | $93,746 |
| A-18019-33443 | 2018-07-03 | certified | Private Equity Transactions Associate (Senior-Level), NY | $175,344 |
| A-17304-05239 | 2018-04-17 | certified | Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Developer, MA | $127,920 |
| A-17311-07990 | 2018-04-16 | certified | Mid-Level Private Equity Transaction Associate, CA | $95,181 |
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 7
- China 6
- South Korea 6
- Canada 4
- Mexico 2
- Australia 1
Worker's education
- Other 25
- Master's 3
- Doctorate 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 24
- L-1 2
- TN 2
- E-3 1
Schools
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 6
- HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 4
- COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL 3
- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER 2
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW 2
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 1
Fields of study
- LAW 24
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 1
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 1
- LAW TAXATION 1
- MASTER OF LAWS LL.M. 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 Lawyers, 4 of 6. 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 6 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 7,151. 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 5 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 NY. 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 21, 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.