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PERM sponsor, #432 of 70,985 by filings

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 35 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 13, 2026. Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. has 31 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer · 29% of its filings
Main worksite
San Jose, CA · 81% of its filings
Industry
Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · NAICS 42369

Waiting on a case with Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 83 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

84

#432 of 70,985

Certified

81

2 denied

Approval

97.6%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$170,000

offered, per year

Median days

480

14 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.

In the queue right now 117 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

31

of 117 tracked cases. The other 86 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 2, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 31 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
31100%

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 117 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 117, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 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.

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. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 4 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)
84 published
31 pending
$170,000 median, n=84
Prevailing wage requests
208 published
14 pending
$172,931 median, n=205
H-1B labor condition applications
919 published
3 pending
$148,762 median, n=919

Its median H-1B wage is $148,762 across 919 LCAs, 12.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $170,000 across 84 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 Samsung Semiconductor, 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: 919 LCAs filed by Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., 909 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

2,827 positions for new employment, 3,004 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 2,827 · 20%
  • Change of employer 7e 3,004 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 3,008 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 2,649 · 19%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 5 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 2,646 · 19%

Shares of the 14,119 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 0 · 0%
  • Level II 213 · 31%
  • Level III 229 · 34%
  • Level IV 239 · 35%

Shares of the 681 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; 228 of 909 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 872 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 916. 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 916 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 3. 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

    97.6% of 83 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 17% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    35 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    249 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    20% of 3,682 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 65% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    56% of 192 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 71% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.5% of 274 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 49% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

97.6%ahead of 17%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

480 daysahead of 29%

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 76 and 99 filings.

Their median wait
460 days
This one
480 days

This one sits 20 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 432 of 70,985 by volume: 431 filed at least as many filings, and 70,553 filed no more.

Just above
Epic Home Care Inc DBA Home Instead Senior Care 85 filings
Just below
APERION CARE ELGIN, LLC 84 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 17-2072.00 · 24 filings, 29% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 63 of 84 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

Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers

NAICS 42369, 423690 · 63 filings

  • Custom Computer Programming Services 54151118
  • Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 334413
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 83
  • Michigan 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 2 states cover 84 of 84 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Jose, CA 68
  • San Diego, CA 13
  • Auburn Hills, MI 1
  • Folsom, CA 1
  • Pasadena, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 84 of 84 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 84 filings · 97.6% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 84 of 84 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Mercury News

    54 cases

  2. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    9 cases

  3. Los Angeles Times

    1 cases

  4. The Oakland Press

    1 cases

  5. The Sacramento Bee

    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

    66 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    66 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    66 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

    9.1%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    26%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    7.6%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    55%

  7. Over 180 days

    3.0%
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 2008

408 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2016 with 54.

  • 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
FY2008 2 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 4 0 2
FY2013 0 0 2
FY2014 13 0 6
FY2015 34 2 0
FY2016 51 1 2
FY2017 13 0 2
FY2018 32 0 0
FY2019 33 1 1
FY2020 34 0 0
FY2021 23 0 0
FY2022 26 0 4
FY2023 30 0 3
FY2024 18 0 1
FY2025 29 1 0
FY2026 34 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 256. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22293-43401 2023-09-15 certified Engineer, CA $117,895
A-22252-19315 2023-08-30 certified Engineer, CA $126,464
A-22206-94488 2023-08-18 certified Sr. Engineer, CA $135,783
A-22255-20176 2023-08-17 certified Sr. Engineer, CA $157,477
A-22245-16437 2023-07-25 certified Senior Analog Design Engineer, CA $164,441
A-22245-16378 2023-07-25 certified Firmware Engineer, CA $130,484
A-22174-77636 2023-07-18 certified Senior Staff Engineer, CA $190,000
A-22188-84929 2023-07-14 certified Senior Engineer, CA $150,000
The other 17
A-22188-84922 2023-07-14 certified Senior Compiler Research Engineer, CA $157,291
A-22188-84905 2023-05-19 certified Manager, Firmware, CA $204,778
A-22158-67754 2023-04-17 certified Sr. Engineer, CA $139,360
A-22158-67793 2023-04-17 certified Senior Engineer, CA $153,750
A-22034-07135 2023-03-21 certified Staff Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22164-71050 2023-03-08 certified Senior Manager, CA $184,080
A-22175-77950 2023-02-28 withdrawn Sr. Staff Engineer, CA $184,080
A-22082-29654 2023-02-27 certified Senior Engineer, CA $152,250
A-22140-58687 2023-02-22 certified Senior Engineer, CA $136,224
A-22061-18430 2023-02-21 certified Distributed File System Sr. SW Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22084-31006 2023-02-10 certified Firmware Engineer, CA $130,894
A-22122-49186 2023-02-06 certified Sr. Engineer, CA $148,221
A-21288-59283 2023-01-30 certified Principal Engineer, CA $175,000
A-22059-17234 2023-01-11 certified Senior Engineer, CA $153,750
A-22080-28574 2022-12-14 withdrawn Senior Staff Engineer, CA $175,000
A-21302-65631 2022-11-29 certified Senior Staff Image Processing Engineer, CA $190,000
A-22041-10228 2022-11-21 certified Senior Staff Engineer, CA $185,000

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

  • India 136
  • China 50
  • South Korea 14
  • Canada 12
  • Iran 7
  • Egypt 5

Worker's education

  • Master's 150
  • Doctorate 57
  • Bachelor's 48
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 227
  • L-1 12
  • O-1 7
  • F-1 6
  • E-3 1
  • H-3 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 14
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 7
  • SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY 6

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 69
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 37
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 26
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 20
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 19
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 10

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 #432 counts this page's cases only.

446 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, 24 of 84. 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 84 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 432. 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 83 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.

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