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PERM sponsor, #558 of 70,985 by filings

Staples, Inc.

Staples, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 34 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 16, 2026. Staples, Inc. has 22 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 37% of its filings
Main worksite
Framingham, MA · 90% of its filings
Industry
Office Supplies and Stationery Retailers · NAICS 459410

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This rate is level with the field

Over 66 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.5% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

67

#558 of 70,985

Certified

66

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$135,907

offered, per year

Median days

496

30 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 90 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

22

of 90 tracked cases. The other 68 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 2, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 22 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
22100%

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 90 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 90, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 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. Staples, Inc.

    median of 12 decisions in the last 90 days

    306 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)
67 published
22 pending
$135,907 median, n=67
Prevailing wage requests
100 published
3 pending
$139,402 median, n=99
H-1B labor condition applications
1,041 published
3 pending
$125,700 median, n=1,039

Its median H-1B wage is $125,700 across 1,039 LCAs, 7.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $135,907 across 67 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 Staples, 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: 1,041 LCAs filed by Staples, Inc., 1,023 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

254 positions for new employment, 229 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 254 · 25%
  • Change of employer 7e 229 · 22%
  • Continuing 7b 357 · 35%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 88 · 9%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 95 · 9%

Shares of the 1,023 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 131 · 13%
  • Level II 304 · 30%
  • Level III 306 · 30%
  • Level IV 282 · 28%

Shares of the 1,023 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; 0 of 1,023 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 981 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,040. 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 1,040 · E-3 (Australia) 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 66 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    34 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,973 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    252 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

    23% of 291 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 71% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    54% of 291 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 70% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.4% of 334 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% 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

496 daysahead of 8%

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 61 and 75 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
496 days

This one sits 30 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 558 of 70,985 by volume: 557 filed at least as many filings, and 70,427 filed no more.

Just above
Juniper Networks (US), Inc. 67 filings
Just below
Varian Medical Systems, Inc. 67 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 · 25 filings, 37% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 48 of 67 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

Office Supplies and Stationery Retailers

NAICS 459410 · 37 filings

  • Office Supplies and Stationery Stores 45321030
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

  • Massachusetts 60
  • Illinois 4
  • Florida 2
  • Texas 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 4 states cover 67 of 67 filings.

Where the work is

  • Framingham, MA 60
  • Lincolnshire, IL 4
  • Tampa, FL 2
  • Coppell, TX 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 67 of 67 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 67 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 67 of 67 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Boston Sunday Globe

    40 cases

  2. Chicago Tribune

    3 cases

  3. Tampa Bay Times

    2 cases

  4. The Boston Globe

    1 cases

  5. The Dallas Morning News

    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

    47 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    47 cases

  3. Private employment firms

    28 cases

  4. The employer's website

    19 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

    51%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    19%

  7. Over 180 days

    2.1%
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

472 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2016 with 91.

  • 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 7 0 0
FY2009 5 0 0
FY2010 16 0 0
FY2011 22 0 0
FY2012 16 0 1
FY2013 19 0 2
FY2014 22 0 0
FY2015 39 0 3
FY2016 91 0 0
FY2017 34 0 1
FY2018 25 0 0
FY2019 19 0 0
FY2020 15 0 0
FY2021 30 0 3
FY2022 21 0 0
FY2023 14 0 0
FY2024 20 0 0
FY2025 13 0 1
FY2026 33 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 253. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22182-82360 2023-08-04 certified Software Engineer II, MA $125,000
A-22242-13843 2023-07-20 certified Software Engineer III, MA $139,950
A-22160-68897 2023-06-29 certified Software Engineer III, MA $139,925
A-22011-96630 2023-05-15 certified Senior Analyst Financial II, MA $130,104
A-22157-66505 2023-05-01 certified Data Scientist, MA $100,363
A-22146-61975 2023-03-30 certified Software Engineer II, MA $139,925
A-22082-29526 2023-01-27 certified Data Scientist, MA $100,000
A-21343-83833 2023-01-06 certified Data Engineer III, MA $150,111
The other 17
A-22098-38045 2023-01-04 certified Software Engineer II, MA $139,925
A-22067-20501 2022-12-15 certified Software Engineer II, MA $119,950
A-22067-20609 2022-11-30 certified Software Engineer II, MA $110,000
A-22011-96593 2022-11-17 certified Sr. Data Operations Engineer I, MA $132,900
A-22031-05008 2022-11-03 certified Software Engineer III, MA $139,930
A-22031-04963 2022-11-03 certified Software Engineer III, MA $140,000
A-21342-83490 2022-09-12 certified Software Engineer III, MA $140,000
A-21313-70241 2022-09-12 certified Software Engineer II, MA $99,950
A-21312-69681 2022-08-29 certified Software Engineer III, MA $140,000
A-21293-60678 2022-08-29 certified Sr. Technical Engineer I, MA $140,000
A-21291-59600 2022-05-23 certified Sr. Operations Manager, NY $130,000
A-21245-39333 2022-04-25 certified Analyst Principal IT Tech, MA $122,700
A-21245-39455 2022-04-01 certified Manager, Automation Engineer, FL $140,000
A-21232-34132 2022-03-23 certified Senior Architect I, MA $135,660
A-21230-33135 2022-02-16 certified Software Engineer II, MA $105,000
A-21152-94494 2022-01-21 certified Software Engineer II, MA $135,658
A-21169-03825 2022-01-06 certified Senior Automation Engineer, MA $138,000

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 227
  • China 6
  • Canada 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Taiwan 2
  • United Kingdom 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 130
  • Master's 119
  • Other 3
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 245
  • NOT IN USA 3
  • PAROLEE 2
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 10
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 8
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 7
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 6
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 5
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 5

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 48
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 34
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 28
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 20
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 16
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 14

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 25 of 67. 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 67 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 558. 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 66 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 MA. 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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