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PERM sponsor, #2,065 of 70,985 by filings

SVB FINANCIAL GROUP

Main job
Computer and Information Systems Managers · 23% of its filings
Main worksite
Tempe, AZ · 59% of its filings
Industry
Commercial Banking · NAICS 522110

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Too few cases for a rate

22 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

22

#2,065 of 70,985

Certified

22

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 22 decided

Median wage

$145,000

offered, per year

Median days

350

116 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.

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Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 20, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,586 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,522 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)
22 published
no live read
$145,000 median, n=22
Prevailing wage requests
0 published
0 pending
no wage published
H-1B labor condition applications
419 published
0 pending
$128,118 median, n=419

Its median H-1B wage is $128,118 across 419 LCAs, 11.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $145,000 across 22 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, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; 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 SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, 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: 419 LCAs filed by SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, 410 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

28 positions for new employment, 182 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 28 · 7%
  • Change of employer 7e 182 · 44%
  • Continuing 7b 154 · 38%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 43 · 10%

Shares of the 410 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 16 · 4%
  • Level II 77 · 19%
  • Level III 228 · 56%
  • Level IV 84 · 21%

Shares of the 405 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; 5 of 410 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 March 8, 2023. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 355 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 405. 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 404 · E-3 (Australia) 15. 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.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

350 daysmiddle of 22 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 22 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 21 and 22 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
350 days

This one sits 116 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 2,065 of 70,985 by volume: 2,064 filed at least as many filings, and 68,920 filed no more.

Just above
UMC, INC 22 filings
Just below
MARJAC POULTRY, INC 22 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 Computer and Information Systems Managers, 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

Computer and Information Systems Managers

SOC 11-3021 · 5 filings, 23% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 20 of 22 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

Commercial Banking

NAICS 522110 · 22 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

  • Arizona 13
  • California 4
  • Georgia 4
  • Massachusetts 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 22 of 22 filings.

Where the work is

  • Tempe, AZ 13
  • Atlanta, GA 4
  • Santa Clara, CA 3
  • Boston, MA 1
  • San Francisco, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 22 of 22 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 22 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 22 of 22 filings, 100% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2009

210 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2024, busiest in FY2021 with 36.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2009 3 0 1
FY2010 3 0 0
FY2011 5 0 0
FY2012 9 0 1
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 2 0 2
FY2015 2 0 0
FY2016 9 0 0
FY2017 14 0 0
FY2018 13 0 1
FY2019 3 0 0
FY2020 14 0 0
FY2021 36 0 0
FY2022 33 0 1
FY2023 35 0 0
FY2024 22 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 159. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22249-17090 2023-08-22 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $145,000
A-22228-06834 2023-08-22 certified Senior Systems Analyst, AZ $120,000
A-22270-28876 2023-08-22 certified Scrum Master, AZ $127,000
A-22221-02895 2023-08-17 certified Senior Systems Analyst, AZ $121,000
A-22213-97874 2023-08-04 certified Sr. Manager, Business Process Automation, AZ $155,000
A-22255-20174 2023-08-02 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $147,150
A-22227-06096 2023-07-21 certified Senior Talent Insights Analyst, CA $123,510
A-22228-06483 2023-07-21 certified Sr. Software Engineer, AZ $125,000
The other 17
A-22223-04366 2023-07-20 certified Manager, IT, CA $192,000
A-22222-03924 2023-07-20 certified Principal Software Engineer, AZ $153,000
A-22227-06146 2023-07-20 certified Manager, IT, AZ $175,100
A-22171-74837 2023-05-15 certified Senior Privacy Analyst, AZ $127,900
A-22103-39993 2023-05-12 certified Product Manager, AZ $180,000
A-22123-49764 2023-04-26 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $115,000
A-22160-69397 2023-04-20 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $132,000
A-22131-53898 2023-04-10 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $140,000
A-22131-53859 2023-04-07 certified Data Engineer II, AZ $122,000
A-22131-53771 2023-04-07 certified Senior Data Specialist, AZ $140,000
A-22131-53816 2023-04-07 certified Senior Manager, IT, AZ $172,765
A-22131-53490 2023-04-06 certified Director, VCRM, CA $185,000
A-22131-53493 2023-04-06 certified Vice President/Director – Venture Capital Relationship Management (VCRM), CA $180,939
A-22131-53795 2023-04-05 certified Senior Software Test Engineer, AZ $123,906
A-22124-50108 2023-03-30 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $129,000
A-22124-50045 2023-03-30 certified Senior Software Engineer, AZ $140,000
A-22124-50176 2023-03-30 certified FX Global Operating Model Director – Global Treasury Advisor, NY $230,818

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 139
  • Canada 5
  • United Kingdom 4
  • Australia 3
  • China 3
  • Cameroon 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 91
  • Master's 65
  • None 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 151
  • E-3 3
  • L-1 3
  • L-2 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 7
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 6
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 5
  • BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 5
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 5

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 22
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 17
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 15
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 11
  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 10
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 9

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 Computer and Information Systems Managers, 5 of 22. 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 22 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 2,065. 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 22 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 AZ. 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

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.

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