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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA

THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA sponsors green cards: it filed 7 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 11, 2026. THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA has 5 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Financial and Investment Analysts · 21% of its filings
Main worksite
New York, NY · 82% of its filings
Industry
Investment Banking and Securities Dealing · NAICS 523110

Waiting on a case with THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA?

  • When it'll likely be decided
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This rate is level with the field

Over 34 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 10.2% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

38

#1,085 of 70,985

Certified

34

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$175,000

offered, per year

Median days

476

10 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 40 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

5

of 40 tracked cases. The other 35 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 23, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 5 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5100%

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 40 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 40, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 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.

Layoff notices filed by THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA

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.

  • February 11, 2026, closure, permanent, 15 employees, New York, effective June 30, 2026. New York WARN report 250 Vesey Street, New York, NY, 10281

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 2 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 81,062 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)
38 published
5 pending
$175,000 median, n=38
Prevailing wage requests
46 published
3 pending
$169,229 median, n=39
H-1B labor condition applications
301 published
0 pending
$144,942 median, n=301

Its median H-1B wage is $144,942 across 301 LCAs, 17.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $175,000 across 38 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 THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, 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: 301 LCAs filed by THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, 281 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

101 positions for new employment, 66 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 101 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 66 · 23%
  • Continuing 7b 97 · 35%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 2 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 15 · 5%

Shares of the 281 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 11 · 5%
  • Level II 74 · 33%
  • Level III 52 · 23%
  • Level IV 89 · 39%

Shares of the 226 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; 55 of 281 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 12, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 255 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 266. 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 265 · E-3 (Australia) 29 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 7. 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 34 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    7 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 86% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    84 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    21% of 95 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 68% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    59% of 80 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 74% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 57 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% 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

476 daysahead of 34%

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 36 and 40 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
476 days

This one sits 11 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 1,085 of 70,985 by volume: 1,084 filed at least as many filings, and 69,900 filed no more.

Just above
Krones, Inc. 38 filings
Just below
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 38 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 Financial and Investment Analysts, 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

Financial and Investment Analysts

SOC 13-2051.00 · 8 filings, 21% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 29 of 38 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

Investment Banking and Securities Dealing

NAICS 523110 · 29 filings

  • Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation 523150, 523159
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

  • New York 31
  • Texas 7
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 2 states cover 38 of 38 filings.

Where the work is

  • New York, NY 31
  • Houston, TX 7
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 38 of 38 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 38 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 38 of 38 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    23 cases

  2. Houston Chronicle

    6 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

    29 cases

  2. Job search websites

    29 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    29 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    1 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

    3.4%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    14%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    31%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    52%

  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 2009

87 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 15.

  • 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
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 3 0 2
FY2011 10 0 2
FY2012 3 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 2 0 1
FY2016 5 0 0
FY2017 2 0 0
FY2018 2 0 0
FY2019 1 0 0
FY2020 5 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 3 0 0
FY2024 9 0 2
FY2025 14 0 1
FY2026 11 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 23. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22091-34142 2023-02-13 certified Manager, GBM AML Risk, NY $166,000
A-22033-06120 2022-11-03 certified Associate, Equity Derivatives Quant, NY $160,000
A-22019-99579 2022-10-17 certified Business Analyst, NY $131,685
A-21141-89962 2022-07-07 certified Associate Director, Global Banking and Markets, NY $165,000
A-21230-32846 2022-05-17 certified Managing Director – Infrastructure & Power LatAm and Caribbean, NY $350,000
A-21007-39669 2021-09-20 certified Application Specialist, NY $160,000
A-20233-90233 2021-04-15 certified Application Developer, NY $137,426
A-20212-83346 2021-03-29 certified Senior Applications Engineer, NY $134,930
The other 15
A-19351-96435 2020-09-24 certified Associate Director, FX Options Trader, NY $160,000
A-19205-34744 2020-08-04 certified Director û US Corporate Banking, Energy, TX $175,000
A-20033-14279 2020-06-26 certified Head of Global Business Payments (GBP), Global Banking and Markets (GBM) AML Ris, NY $270,000
A-19204-34227 2019-10-22 certified Senior Manager & Head, Post Trade Technology, NY $188,000
A-19205-34787 2019-10-16 certified Associate Director, Corporate Banking, TX $150,000
A-18313-39705 2019-03-12 certified Associate Director, Institutional Equities, NY $160,000
A-17212-69845 2017-12-26 certified Associate Director, Foreign Exchange Sales, NY $160,000
A-17132-37916 2017-10-19 certified Associate Director, Investor Solutions & Global Equity Derivatives, NY $160,000
A-16258-52805 2017-06-26 certified Senior Project Administrator, Latin America, TX $62,500
A-16342-78226 2017-03-16 certified Application Support, NY $131,997
A-15147-80133 2016-03-18 certified Director - Execution, TX $173,805
A-15230-09685 2016-01-28 certified Manager, Application Support, NY $115,000
A-15165-86408 2016-01-06 certified Senior Project Administrator, Latin America, TX $62,500
A-15147-80364 2015-12-08 certified Senior Systems Support Analyst, NY $95,000
A-15113-70036 2015-10-26 certified Assistant Comptroller, TX $78,500

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

  • Canada 7
  • India 6
  • Argentina 2
  • Australia 1
  • Brazil 1
  • China 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 12
  • Master's 6
  • Other 3
  • High School 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 11
  • E-2 5
  • L-1 5
  • E-3 2

Schools

  • ABM 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF KERALA 2
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 1
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 1
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE 1
  • ESCOLA DE ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS DE SAO PAULO 1

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 9
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ELECTRONICS 2
  • INTERIOR DESIGN 2
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - CONCENTRATION IN FINANCE 1
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE PLEASE SEE SECTION H.14 1

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 15 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 #1,085 counts this page's cases only.

548 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 Financial and Investment Analysts, 8 of 38. 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 38 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 1,085. 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 34 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 NY. 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 19, 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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