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PERM sponsor, #121 of 70,985 by filings

SNAP INC.

SNAP INC. sponsors green cards: it filed 104 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on April 14, 2026. SNAP INC. has 82 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 30% of its filings
Main worksite
Santa Monica, CA · 41% of its filings
Industry
Software Publishers · NAICS 513210

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Filings

300

#121 of 70,985

Certified

293

1 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$167,523

offered, per year

Median days

437

29 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 394 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

82

of 394 tracked cases. The other 312 have been decided.

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

Where those 82 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
82100%

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 394 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 394, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 2026

Follow SNAP INC.

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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.

Layoff notices filed by SNAP INC.

Notices of a mass layoff or closing filed with the state under the WARN Act, as the state printed them, matched to this sponsor by name. What a layoff means for a PERM.

  • April 15, 2026, layoff, permanent, 95 employees, Bellevue, Seattle, Vancouver, effective April 16, 2026. Washington WARN report

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. SNAP INC.

    median of 22 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,361 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 80,732 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)
300 published
82 pending
$167,523 median, n=299
Prevailing wage requests
282 published
34 pending
$136,906 median, n=276
H-1B labor condition applications
2,289 published
2 pending
$148,013 median, n=2,287

Its median H-1B wage is $148,013 across 2,287 LCAs, 11.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $167,523 across 299 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 SNAP 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: 2,289 LCAs filed by SNAP INC., 2,018 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

553 positions for new employment, 755 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 553 · 24%
  • Change of employer 7e 755 · 33%
  • Continuing 7b 121 · 5%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 606 · 27%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 232 · 10%

Shares of the 2,266 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 148 · 8%
  • Level II 190 · 11%
  • Level III 877 · 48%
  • Level IV 594 · 33%

Shares of the 1,809 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; 209 of 2,018 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 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 2,089 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2,246. 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 2,241 · E-3 (Australia) 35 · H-1B1 (Chile) 3 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 10. 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

    99.7% of 294 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 31% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    104 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 13,973 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    551 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    31% of 614 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 84% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    87% of 501 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 96% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.0% of 762 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 43% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 31%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

437 daysahead of 74%

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 210 and 540 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
437 days

This one sits 25 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 121 of 70,985 by volume: 120 filed at least as many filings, and 70,864 filed no more.

Just above
Barclays Services Corp. 300 filings
Just below
General Motors Company 297 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 · 89 filings, 30% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 164 of 300 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

Software Publishers

NAICS 513210, 51121, 511210, 51321 · 300 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

  • California 185
  • Washington 80
  • New York 25
  • Texas 4
  • Utah 4
  • Colorado 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 299 of 300 filings.

Where the work is

  • Santa Monica, CA 122
  • Seattle, WA 70
  • Palo Alto, CA 49
  • New York City, NY 21
  • San Francisco, CA 13
  • Bellevue, WA 10
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 285 of 300 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 300 filings · 99.7% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 300 of 300 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Los Angeles Times

    118 cases

  2. The Seattle Times

    64 cases

  3. San Francisco Chronicle

    55 cases

  4. The New York Times

    22 cases

  5. The Salt Lake Tribune

    2 cases

  6. Austin American-Statesman

    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. Employee referral programs

    264 cases

  2. Job search websites

    264 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    264 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

    17%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    26%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    27%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    31%

  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 2008

937 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 159.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 3 1 0
FY2013 1 0 1
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 3 0 0
FY2017 53 0 0
FY2018 120 0 0
FY2019 87 0 0
FY2020 72 2 1
FY2021 83 1 0
FY2022 159 0 0
FY2023 44 0 0
FY2024 131 1 3
FY2025 63 0 2
FY2026 99 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 625. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22263-24503 2023-08-21 certified Product Manager, Lens Studio (4), CA $206,700
A-22264-25274 2023-08-21 certified Manager, Quality Engineering, CA $207,000
A-22203-93016 2023-07-17 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22194-87503 2023-07-17 certified Backend Software Engineer, CA $197,600
A-22193-86705 2023-07-17 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), WA $185,000
A-22193-86695 2023-07-17 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), WA $185,000
A-22187-83679 2023-07-17 certified Manager, Software Engineering, CA $225,000
A-22188-84354 2023-07-17 certified Product Manager (3), WA $203,341
The other 17
A-22188-84366 2023-07-14 certified Backend Engineer - AWS, WA $166,400
A-22138-56967 2023-07-14 certified Product Manager (4), CA $165,000
A-22111-43870 2023-06-09 certified Software Engineer (Full Stack), CA $167,000
A-22109-42634 2023-06-09 certified Privacy Engineer (4), CA $180,000
A-22109-42530 2023-06-09 certified Manager, Account Management, CA $196,934
A-22186-83043 2023-05-16 certified IT Applications Product Manager (4), CA $205,000
A-22209-96205 2023-05-12 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22203-92979 2023-05-05 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22202-92216 2023-05-03 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22203-93049 2023-04-26 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22202-92303 2023-04-26 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22202-92227 2023-04-26 certified Machine Learning Engineer (4), CA $171,600
A-22165-71255 2023-04-20 certified Interactive Engineer (4), CA $155,000
A-22192-85891 2023-04-18 certified Quality Engineer (4), CA $172,432
A-22165-71312 2023-03-08 certified Senior Financial Analyst, CA $125,000
A-22165-71151 2023-03-08 certified Manager, Account Management, CA $140,000
A-22165-71132 2023-03-06 certified Data Scientist (4), NY $170,000

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 347
  • India 130
  • Ukraine 53
  • Canada 27
  • Russia 15
  • Taiwan 9

Worker's education

  • Master's 481
  • Bachelor's 104
  • Doctorate 29
  • None 10
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 505
  • F-1 54
  • L-1 42
  • O-1 10
  • TN 6
  • O-2 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 57
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 45
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 18
  • THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 12
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 11

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 211
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 35
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 32
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 29
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 19
  • SOFTWARE 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 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 #121 counts this page's cases only.

28 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, 89 of 300. 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 300 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 121. 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 294 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 20, 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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