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PERM sponsor, #186 of 70,985 by filings

Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 43 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. has 30 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer · 20% of its filings
Main worksite
Plano, TX · 61% of its filings
Industry
Business to Business Electronic Markets · NAICS 425110

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Filings

202

#186 of 70,985

Certified

181

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$144,602

offered, per year

Median days

398

68 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 154 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

30

of 154 tracked cases. The other 124 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 23, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 30 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
30100%

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 154 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 154, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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Its newest filings

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

  • G-100-26288-302764 Senior Professional II (M), Online Biz Sales Management filed 2026-10-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26285-295666 Engineer III, Software Process Engineering filed 2026-10-12 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26285-295732 Engineer, Software Quality Engineering filed 2026-10-12 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26281-289894 Engineer III, Machine Learning filed 2026-10-08 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26279-283684 Professional III(M), IMC Strategy filed 2026-10-06 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-266999 Engineer III, Data Analysis filed 2026-09-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-267256 Engineer II, System Structure Design filed 2026-09-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-268853 Professional III, Sales Administration filed 2026-09-29 · 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

  1. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

    median of 11 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
202 published
30 pending
$144,602 median, n=202
Prevailing wage requests
149 published
4 pending
$154,856 median, n=149
H-1B labor condition applications
1,054 published
8 pending
$144,000 median, n=1,051

Its median H-1B wage ($144,000 across 1,051 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($144,602 across 202 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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 Samsung Electronics America, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

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: 1,054 LCAs filed by Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 967 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

135 positions for new employment, 306 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 135 · 14%
  • Change of employer 7e 306 · 32%
  • Continuing 7b 361 · 37%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 163 · 17%

Shares of the 967 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 20 · 2%
  • Level II 299 · 32%
  • Level III 297 · 31%
  • Level IV 327 · 35%

Shares of the 943 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; 24 of 967 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 1, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 950 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,046. 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 1,044 · E-3 (Australia) 9 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    100.0% of 181 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    43 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    254 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    24% of 304 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

    60% of 302 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 75% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.5% of 364 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 59% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

398 daysahead of 90%

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. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 157 and 284 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
398 days

This one sits 65 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 186 of 70,985 by volume: 185 filed at least as many filings, and 70,799 filed no more.

Just above
Homes for Independent Living of Wisconsin LLC 206 filings
Just below
SYNECHRON 202 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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 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

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

SOC 17-2072 · 41 filings, 20% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 120 of 202 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

Business to Business Electronic Markets

NAICS 425110 · 194 filings

  • Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers 4251208
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 130
  • New Jersey 27
  • California 22
  • Washington 14
  • New York 4
  • District of Columbia 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 6 states cover 198 of 202 filings.

Where the work is

  • Plano, TX 123
  • Mountain View, CA 19
  • Ridgefield Park, NJ 15
  • Bellevue, WA 14
  • Berkeley Heights, NJ 12
  • Plano TX, TX 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 188 of 202 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Greenberg Traurig, LLP 166 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Foster LLP 36 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 202 of 202 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    49 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    12 cases

  3. The Star-Ledger

    9 cases

  4. The Mercury News

    6 cases

  5. San Jose Mercury News

    6 cases

  6. The Record/Herald News

    4 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. Employee referral programs

    95 cases

  2. The employer's website

    95 cases

  3. Job search websites

    59 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    37 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

    11%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    38%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    44%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    7.4%

  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 2010

477 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 120.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2011 2 0 1
FY2012 4 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 35 1 0
FY2017 52 0 0
FY2018 40 0 1
FY2019 32 1 0
FY2020 24 0 1
FY2021 31 0 1
FY2022 23 0 1
FY2023 22 0 1
FY2024 104 0 16
FY2025 48 0 5
FY2026 29 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 266. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22257-21106 2023-08-21 certified Professional II, R&D Project Management, WA $157,976
A-22243-15181 2023-08-08 certified Engineer II, Machine Learning, WA $140,579
A-22237-12063 2023-07-31 certified Professional I, Software Verification, NJ $103,802
A-22237-11783 2023-07-11 certified Professional I, Test Automation, NJ $145,454
A-22245-16145 2023-07-10 certified Professional II, R&D Project Management, WA $137,248
A-22224-05118 2023-06-15 certified Associate, Software Quality Assurance, TX $76,856
A-22228-06533 2023-06-14 certified Senior Professional I, B2B Pre/Post Sales, TX $158,620
A-22084-30964 2023-06-13 certified Professional, Software Quality Assurance, TX $114,234
The other 17
A-22164-70579 2023-06-02 certified Associate, Software Quality Assurance, TX $81,598
A-22195-88608 2023-05-05 certified Senior System Engineer, TX $147,430
A-22124-50102 2023-04-18 certified Senior Staff Engineer I, CA $226,928
A-22181-81619 2023-04-17 certified Engineer III, System Structure Design, TX $148,625
A-22173-76371 2023-04-17 certified Engineer II, Software Process Engineering, TX $123,000
A-22179-79547 2023-04-13 certified Engineer III, System Structure Design, TX $148,625
A-22193-87199 2023-04-13 certified Assistant Designer III, Interaction Design, NJ $101,754
A-22062-18708 2023-02-22 withdrawn Engineer III, Software Process Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22137-56442 2023-02-17 certified Engineer III, Software Analysis Engineering, TX $147,430
A-22137-56377 2023-02-17 certified Professional III (M), Network System Technical Support, TX $147,430
A-21273-52598 2023-01-19 certified Professional, Business Process Management, NJ $123,722
A-22062-18802 2023-01-03 certified Engineer III, Software Process Engineering, CA $184,080
A-22056-16304 2022-11-25 certified Professional I, R&D Project Management, WA $136,950
A-22053-14421 2022-11-23 certified Engineer III, Software Analysis Engineering, TX $147,430
A-22024-01618 2022-10-03 certified Professional I, Business Performance Management, CA $184,850
A-21326-76746 2022-09-26 certified Engineer III, Software Process Engineering, CA $184,080
A-21326-76584 2022-08-12 certified Professional III, R&D Project Management, WA $161,058

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 173
  • South Korea 44
  • Canada 14
  • China 12
  • Brazil 3
  • Mexico 3

Worker's education

  • Master's 153
  • Bachelor's 111
  • Doctorate 1
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 252
  • L-1 5
  • F-1 2
  • H-4 1
  • TPS 1

Schools

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 9
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON 8
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 7
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 7
  • SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY 7

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 45
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 28
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 26
  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS 12
  • ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 10
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 9

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 8 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 #186 counts this page's cases only.

328 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 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, 41 of 202. 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 202 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 186. 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 181 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.

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