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PERM sponsor, #85 of 70,985 by filings

Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc.

Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 8 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on March 5, 2026. Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. has 8 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 78% of its filings
Main worksite
Ashburn, VA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

Waiting on a case with Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc.?

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Filings

424

#85 of 70,985

Certified

414

2 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$148,221

offered, per year

Median days

404

62 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 384 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

8

of 384 tracked cases. The other 376 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 16, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 8 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
8100%

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 384 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 384, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

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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.

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 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,592 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
424 published
8 pending
$148,221 median, n=423
Prevailing wage requests
25 published
0 pending
$138,798 median, n=25
H-1B labor condition applications
1,209 published
6 pending
$95,500 median, n=1,208

Its median H-1B wage is $95,500 across 1,208 LCAs, 35.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $148,221 across 423 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 Sapphire Software Solutions, 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: 1,209 LCAs filed by Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc., 1,166 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

202 positions for new employment, 340 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 202 · 17%
  • Change of employer 7e 340 · 29%
  • Continuing 7b 282 · 24%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 83 · 7%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 5 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 256 · 22%

Shares of the 1,166 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 13 · 1%
  • Level II 1,061 · 91%
  • Level III 76 · 7%
  • Level IV 14 · 1%

Shares of the 1,164 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; 2 of 1,166 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 June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 1,099 of 1,100 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 1,209. 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 approval rate

    99.5% of 416 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 29% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    8 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 88% of the 14,051 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    280 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    35% of 311 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 88% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    5.2% of 309 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 18% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.4% of 275 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 24% 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 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 29%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

404 daysahead of 87%

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 260 and 1,211 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
404 days

This one sits 58 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 85 of 70,985 by volume: 84 filed at least as many filings, and 70,900 filed no more.

Just above
Lucid USA, Inc. 424 filings
Just below
Visa Technology & Operations LLC 416 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 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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 331 filings, 78% of everything they file · 99.4% approved

How this is counted

These are the 5 occupations with the most filings, 407 of 424 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 424 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

  • Virginia 424
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. This state covers 424 of 424 filings.

Where the work is

  • Ashburn, VA 424
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 424 of 424 filings.

Who files for them

  1. LAW OFFICE OF SOO PARK, PLC 424 filings · 99.5% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 424 of 424 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Washington Post

    373 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. The employer's website

    373 cases

  2. Job search websites

    373 cases

  3. Employee referral programs

    371 cases

  4. Private employment firms

    2 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

    22%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    27%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    29%

  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 2014

782 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 262.

  • 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
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 0 0 2
FY2016 4 1 6
FY2017 12 1 0
FY2018 22 0 0
FY2019 17 6 3
FY2020 54 0 2
FY2021 60 3 1
FY2022 84 1 0
FY2023 75 1 1
FY2024 64 0 4
FY2025 90 0 4
FY2026 260 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 354. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22291-41611 2023-09-20 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22280-35708 2023-09-15 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22270-28962 2023-09-14 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22265-26833 2023-09-13 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22280-35542 2023-09-13 certified Business Analyst, VA $96,158
A-22291-41531 2023-09-12 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22264-25749 2023-09-12 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22293-42904 2023-09-12 certified IT Analyst, VA $76,606
The other 17
A-22273-31385 2023-09-07 certified IT Analyst, VA $76,606
A-22286-39237 2023-09-01 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22263-24884 2023-08-30 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22271-30013 2023-08-30 certified IT Analyst, VA $76,606
A-22263-24973 2023-08-29 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22263-24957 2023-08-28 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22263-24733 2023-08-24 certified Business Analyst, VA $110,240
A-22265-26844 2023-08-22 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22264-25838 2023-08-22 certified Business Analyst, VA $96,158
A-22263-25049 2023-08-21 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22263-24482 2023-08-08 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22270-28915 2023-07-26 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22257-21124 2023-07-25 certified Software Developer, VA $110,240
A-22259-22699 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22256-20692 2023-07-10 certified Software Engineer, VA $128,731
A-22256-20537 2023-06-30 certified Business Analyst, VA $96,158
A-23053-04565 2023-06-09 withdrawn Software Developer, VA $110,240

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 344
  • Nepal 3
  • Bangladesh 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Nigeria 1
  • Saudi Arabia 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 220
  • Bachelor's 122
  • Associate's 12

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 319
  • F-1 14
  • H-4 2
  • L-1 2
  • L-2 1
  • TPS 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 23
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 15
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 14
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 9
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 9
  • CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY 8

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 50
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 36
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 18
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 16
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 16
  • ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 16

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 5 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 #85 counts this page's cases only.

15 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, 331 of 424. 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 424 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 85. 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 416 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 VA. 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 23, 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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