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PERM sponsor, #149 of 70,985 by filings

T-Mobile USA, Inc.

T-Mobile USA, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 34 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 5, 2026. T-Mobile USA, Inc. has 17 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 28% of its filings
Main worksite
Bellevue, WA · 35% of its filings
Industry
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite) · NAICS 517112

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Filings

255

#149 of 70,985

Certified

234

1 denied

Approval

99.6%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$142,002

offered, per year

Median days

479

13 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 228 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

17

of 228 tracked cases. The other 211 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 17, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 17 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1694%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
16%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 228 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 228, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow T-Mobile USA, Inc.

An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

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.

  • G-100-26278-280465 Principal Architect, Systems filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26244-209251 Sr Analyst, Credit Risk Management filed 2026-09-01 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26241-202923 Sr Engineer, Systems Reliability (00084860) filed 2026-08-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26240-201948 Sr Engineer, Systems Design filed 2026-08-28 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26223-161231 Manager, IT Quality Assurance (00085619) filed 2026-08-11 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26205-123491 Finance Manager, Business Systems filed 2026-07-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26196-099398 Sr Engineer, Systems Reliability (00088716) filed 2026-07-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26167-019840 Sr. Architect, Technical (00077492) filed 2026-06-16 · ANALYST REVIEW

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 T-Mobile USA, 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.

  • August 26, 2026, layoff, permanent, 159 employees, Seattle, Bellingham, Bothell, Vancouver, Bellevue, Kennewick, Tacoma, and Yakima, effective September 21, 2026. Washington WARN report
  • April 14, 2026, 74 employees, Travis, effective June 8, 2026. Texas WARN report Austin

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. T-Mobile USA, Inc.

    median of 16 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 31,712 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,711 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
255 published
17 pending
$142,002 median, n=255
Prevailing wage requests
404 published
52 pending
$133,328 median, n=396
H-1B labor condition applications
3,299 published
5 pending
$136,180 median, n=3,296

Its median H-1B wage is $136,180 across 3,296 LCAs, 4.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $142,002 across 255 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.

Of its 17 pending PERM cases, 1 (5.9%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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 T-Mobile USA, 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: 3,299 LCAs filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., 3,011 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

312 positions for new employment, 552 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 312 · 10%
  • Change of employer 7e 552 · 18%
  • Continuing 7b 1,003 · 33%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 355 · 12%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 791 · 26%

Shares of the 3,011 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 67 · 3%
  • Level II 459 · 19%
  • Level III 1,154 · 48%
  • Level IV 715 · 30%

Shares of the 2,395 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; 616 of 3,011 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 2,962 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,269. 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 3,268 · E-3 (Australia) 25 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 6. 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

    99.6% of 235 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 30% 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 14,032 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    743 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    22% of 894 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 70% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    76% of 659 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 89% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.9% of 1,137 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 54% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.6%ahead of 30%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

479 daysahead of 30%

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 185 and 408 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
479 days

This one sits 17 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 149 of 70,985 by volume: 148 filed at least as many filings, and 70,836 filed no more.

Just above
CVS Pharmacy, Inc. 258 filings
Just below
Badger Bus Lines, Inc. 255 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 · 71 filings, 28% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 132 of 255 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

Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)

NAICS 517112, 517312 · 153 filings

  • Wired and Wireless Telecommunications Carriers 5173144
  • Other Telecommunications 517931
  • Telecommunications (Census group 517) 5172129
  • Wired and Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (Census group 51731) 5173108
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

  • Washington 116
  • Kansas 56
  • Texas 37
  • Georgia 20
  • Virginia 6
  • Maryland 5
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 240 of 255 filings.

Where the work is

  • Bellevue, WA 89
  • Overland Park, KS 56
  • Frisco, TX 36
  • Bothell, WA 23
  • Atlanta, GA 20
  • Bethesda, MD 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 229 of 255 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP 130 filings · 99.2% approved
  2. Wolfsdorf Rosenthal, LLP 39 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. The McCrummen Immigration Law Group, LLC 31 filings
  4. J. Aponte & Associates, LLC 23 filings
  5. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 17 filings
  6. McCrummen & McCullick Immigration Law, LLC 15 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 255 of 255 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Seattle Times

    87 cases

  2. The Kansas City Star

    28 cases

  3. The Dallas Morning News

    25 cases

  4. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    17 cases

  5. The Washington Post

    9 cases

  6. East Bay Times

    2 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

    179 cases

  2. The employer's website

    179 cases

  3. Job search websites

    173 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    6 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

    20%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    8.4%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    61%

  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

1,034 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2019 with 136.

  • 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 34 3 2
FY2009 59 0 2
FY2010 82 0 0
FY2011 51 1 0
FY2012 106 1 1
FY2013 12 0 0
FY2014 19 0 0
FY2015 48 1 0
FY2016 26 0 1
FY2017 65 0 1
FY2018 126 0 2
FY2019 134 1 1
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 101 1 11
FY2025 3 0 4
FY2026 130 0 5

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 357. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-19163-17119 2019-09-25 certified Senior Engineer, Software, GA $117,467
A-19142-08382 2019-09-25 certified Manager, Software Development, WA $158,620
A-19141-07743 2019-09-25 certified Senior Engineer, Software, WA $134,550
A-19162-16915 2019-09-24 certified Senior Engineers, Software, GA $132,612
A-19169-19754 2019-09-17 certified Senior Engineers, Radio Frequency, MA $110,244
A-19162-16868 2019-09-17 certified Sr. Engineers, Software, WA $140,454
A-19162-16857 2019-09-17 certified Senior Engineers, Systems Design, CA $121,633
A-19098-90026 2019-09-17 certified Senior Engineers, Software, WA $133,806
The other 17
A-19164-17706 2019-09-12 certified Senior Engineer, Software, GA $130,038
A-19161-16222 2019-09-12 certified Senior Product Development - MVNO & IoT, WA $140,400
A-19143-08957 2019-09-12 certified Manager, Engineering Radio Frequency (RF) Deployment, AZ $123,960
A-19149-11346 2019-09-11 certified Senior Analysts, Technical, GA $109,273
A-18337-47122 2019-09-05 certified Senior Technology Product Specialist, WA $137,650
A-19141-07742 2019-08-09 certified Senior Architect, Cloud, WA $149,968
A-19115-97195 2019-07-31 certified Senior Engineer, Technical Support, NJ $114,240
A-19141-08254 2019-07-29 certified Senior Engineer, Software, WA $144,840
A-19140-07216 2019-07-29 certified Senior Engineer, Systems Design, WA $119,600
A-19115-97285 2019-07-29 certified Senior Engineer, System Design, WA $124,384
A-19115-97254 2019-07-29 certified Senior Engineer, System Design, WA $124,384
A-19114-96698 2019-07-29 certified Senior Engineer, System Design, WA $124,384
A-19107-94103 2019-07-29 certified Principal Engineers, Systems Architecture, WA $141,831
A-19120-99417 2019-07-19 certified Sr. Engineer, Software, WA $146,841
A-19049-74162 2019-07-12 certified Senior Analyst, DevOps, GA $96,000
A-19102-91879 2019-06-26 certified Senior Analyst, Technical, WA $120,025
A-19109-95179 2019-06-25 certified Senior Engineer, Radio Frequency, MO $95,000

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 306
  • Canada 14
  • Pakistan 9
  • Mexico 6
  • China 5
  • Australia 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 180
  • Master's 175
  • Doctorate 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 338
  • TN 12
  • H-4 3
  • L-1 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 9
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 9
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 8
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 7
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 7
  • STRATFORD UNIVERSITY 7

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 46
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 45
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 35
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 32
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 18
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 12

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. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. Nothing else in the file starts the same way.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 71 of 255. 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 255 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 149. 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 235 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 WA. 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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