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Sallie Mae Bank

Sallie Mae Bank sponsors green cards: it filed 2 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on July 21, 2026. Sallie Mae Bank has 2 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Operations Research Analysts · 23% of its filings
Main worksite
Newark, DE · 85% of its filings
Industry
Consumer Lending · NAICS 522291

Waiting on a case with Sallie Mae Bank?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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Too few cases for a rate

13 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

13

#3,631 of 70,985

Certified

13

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 13 decided

Median wage

$122,000

offered, per year

Median days

440

26 faster 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 12 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

2

of 12 tracked cases. The other 10 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 21, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 2 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
2100%

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.

From DOL's live status of 12 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 12, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 17, 2026

Follow Sallie Mae Bank

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.

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

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. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,795 cases, and would be decided around March 13, 2027 (between February 21, 2027 and April 22, 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)
13 published
2 pending
$122,000 median, n=13
Prevailing wage requests
15 published
1 pending
$103,394 median, n=15
H-1B labor condition applications
137 published
0 pending
$95,264 median, n=136

Its median H-1B wage is $95,264 across 136 LCAs, 21.9% lower than its median PERM wage of $122,000 across 13 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 Sallie Mae Bank, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26265-251033 Senior Manager of Financial Modeling & Analysis 2026-09-22 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26169-029695 Manager, Data Analytics (Private Credit Operations) 2026-06-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26041-630617 Senior Associate Data Analytics (Private Credit Operations) $73,944 per year 2026-02-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25328-433736 Senior Associate, Data Analytics (Private Credit Operations) $73,944 per year 2025-11-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25269-336994 Manager, Business Analysis $140,150 per year 2025-09-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 137 LCAs filed by Sallie Mae Bank, 134 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

65 positions for new employment, 29 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 65 · 49%
  • Change of employer 7e 29 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 34 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 2 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 4 · 3%

Shares of the 134 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 29 · 26%
  • Level II 36 · 32%
  • Level III 14 · 13%
  • Level IV 32 · 29%

Shares of the 111 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; 23 of 134 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 May 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 130 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 137. 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.

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

    2 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 54% of the 13,941 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    27 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 87% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    7.4% of 27 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 27% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    90.3% of 31 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 3% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

440 daysmiddle of 13 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 13 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 12 and 13 filings.

Their median wait
442 days
This one
440 days

This one sits 2 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 3,631 of 70,985 by volume: 3,630 filed at least as many filings, and 67,354 filed no more.

Just above
Bentz of Naperville, INC 13 filings
Just below
ELP Right Living Health, LLC. 13 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 Operations Research Analysts, 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

Operations Research Analysts

SOC 15-2031 · 3 filings, 23% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 9 of 13 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

Consumer Lending

NAICS 522291 · 13 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

  • Delaware 11
  • Indiana 1
  • Virginia 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 13 of 13 filings.

Where the work is

  • Newark, DE 11
  • Indianapolis, IN 1
  • Sterling, VA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 13 of 13 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. 13 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 13 of 13 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Philadelphia Inquirer

    6 cases

  2. The Washington Post

    1 cases

  3. Wilmington News Journal

    1 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. Job search websites

    8 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    8 cases

  3. The employer's website

    5 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    3 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

    38%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    38%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    25%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
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 2020

24 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2025, busiest in FY2024 with 8.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2020 1 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 3 0 1
FY2023 2 1 0
FY2024 8 0 0
FY2025 5 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 11. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22238-12654 2023-09-15 certified Statistical Modeler I, DE $92,856
A-22256-20446 2023-06-30 certified Marketing Intelligence Strategy Manager, DE $103,626
A-21354-88793 2023-02-02 denied Sr. Director, Credit Card & Customer Experience Analytics, DE $202,384
A-22216-00578 2022-09-01 withdrawn Marketing Intelligence Strategy Manager, DE $103,626
A-21260-46360 2022-07-29 certified Statistical Modeling Manager, DE $112,220
A-21161-99427 2021-11-30 certified Director, Loss Forecasting, DE $137,700
A-21062-57917 2021-11-09 certified Reporting and Analytics Manager, DE $90,000
A-20261-00734 2021-09-13 certified Statistical Modeler II, DE $95,000
The other 3
A-20259-99672 2021-05-07 certified Strategy Analyst, DE $66,950
A-20126-50681 2021-03-16 certified Statistical Modeler II, DE $95,000
A-20065-26997 2020-06-30 certified Director Statistical Modeling, DE $130,000

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 10
  • India 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 9
  • Bachelor's 1
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 11

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 7
  • GOLDEYBEACOM COLLEGE 1
  • PEKING UNIVERSITY 1
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 1
  • UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 1

Fields of study

  • FINANCE 3
  • STATISTICS 3
  • EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE 1
  • MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • MATHEMATICS 1
  • OPERATIONS RESEARCH 1

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 entry 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 #3,631 counts this page's cases only.

4 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 Operations Research Analysts, 3 of 13. 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 13 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 3,631. 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 13 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 DE. 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 17, 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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