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PERM sponsor, #26,616 of 70,985 by filings

THE BLACKSTONE GROUP

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Too few cases for a rate

2 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

2

#26,616 of 70,985

Certified

0

2 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 2 decided

Median wage

$225,000

offered, per year

Median days

802

middle of 2 decided

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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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.

Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 21, 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 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 80,135 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)
2 published
no live read
2 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
0 published
0 pending
no wage published
H-1B labor condition applications
173 published
0 pending
$145,000 median, n=173

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 5 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 BLACKSTONE GROUP, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-22158-252276 Assistant Vice President, Legal & Compliance Group $200,000 per year 2022-06-07 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-22158-252270 Associate, Credit Group $170,000 per year 2022-06-07 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-22153-238083 Analyst, Blackstone Technology and Innovations (BXTi) $110,000 per year 2022-06-02 · CERTIFIED
  • I-202-22145-210841 Senior Associate, Real Estate Group $185,000 per year 2022-05-25 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-22139-187937 Associate, Blackstone Growth $140,000 per year 2022-05-18 · CERTIFIED

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: 173 LCAs filed by THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, 168 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

35 positions for new employment, 73 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 35 · 21%
  • Change of employer 7e 73 · 43%
  • Continuing 7b 45 · 27%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 2 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 13 · 8%

Shares of the 168 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 25 · 15%
  • Level II 36 · 21%
  • Level III 50 · 30%
  • Level IV 57 · 34%

Shares of the 168 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 168 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 7, 2022. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 129 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 156. 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 156 · E-3 (Australia) 13 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 4. 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

802 daysmiddle of 2 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 2 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 1 and 2 filings.

Their median wait
434 days
This one
802 days

This one sits 368 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 26,616 of 70,985 by volume: 26,615 filed at least as many filings, and 44,369 filed no more.

Just above
FIREEYE SECURITY HOLDINGS US LLC 2 filings
Just below
Zitriom Llc 2 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

History

Year by year since 2010

71 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2024, busiest in FY2018 with 11.

  • 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
FY2010 2 0 0
FY2011 4 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 2 0 0
FY2014 2 0 0
FY2015 4 0 0
FY2016 7 0 0
FY2017 7 2 1
FY2018 10 0 1
FY2019 3 0 0
FY2020 6 0 0
FY2021 5 0 0
FY2022 7 0 0
FY2023 4 2 0
FY2024 0 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 55. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22173-76792 2023-04-10 certified Associate, NY $159,619
A-22151-63274 2023-03-07 certified Vice President, Technology and Innovations Group, NY $200,000
A-21363-91874 2023-01-10 denied Senior Associate, Real Estate Acquisitions, NY $150,000
A-22091-34766 2022-12-29 certified Associate, NY $155,000
A-22090-33970 2022-12-22 certified Senior Associate, Real Estate - Portfolio Management, NY $185,000
A-21363-91932 2022-12-15 denied Associate, Blackstone Data Analytics, NY $135,000
A-21328-77815 2022-08-22 certified Vice President, Real Estate Institutional Client Solutions (ICS), NY $165,000
A-21354-88714 2022-08-01 certified Financial Associate, NY $105,000
The other 17
A-21309-68926 2022-06-01 certified Vice President, Blackstone Credit, NY $175,000
A-21126-83283 2021-11-01 certified Associate, GSO – Software Engineer, NY $150,000
A-21133-86504 2021-11-01 certified Principal, NY $175,000
A-21108-75403 2021-10-06 certified Business Analyst – Infrastructure, NY $128,000
A-21111-76422 2021-10-06 certified Staff Accountant, NY $85,000
A-20313-18195 2021-06-04 certified Associate, GSO – Quantitative Portfolio Solutions, NY $208,000
A-20212-83341 2021-03-31 certified Senior Associate, Real Estate Asset Management, NY $150,000
A-20167-65916 2021-02-17 certified Senior Associate, Real Estate, NY $180,000
A-20167-65883 2021-01-04 certified Associate, BAAM, NY $175,000
A-20152-60129 2020-12-22 certified Vice President, Blackstone Innovations, NY $172,000
A-20097-39685 2020-08-31 certified Senior Associate, Real Estate Debt Strategies, NY $170,019
A-19329-87722 2020-05-26 certified Associate, NY $150,000
A-19346-94866 2020-05-08 certified Managing Director, NY $300,000
A-19302-76795 2020-04-07 certified Assistant Vice President, GSO Technology, NY $155,000
A-19274-64988 2020-02-25 certified Associate, Global Fund Finance, NY $101,525
A-19246-52412 2020-01-15 certified Associate, NY $125,000
A-19107-94639 2019-06-25 certified SVP, Innovations, NY $138,861

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 14
  • Canada 11
  • India 9
  • United Kingdom 4
  • South Korea 3
  • Australia 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 30
  • Master's 24
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 47
  • E-3 2
  • E-2 1
  • F-1 1
  • J-2 1
  • L-1 1

Schools

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 8
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 4
  • BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2
  • DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY DELHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING) 2
  • HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 2

Fields of study

  • ECONOMICS 6
  • APPLIED MATHEMATICS 3
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3
  • COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE 3
  • HOTEL ADMINISTRATION - MINOR IN REAL ESTATE 3
  • ACCOUNTING FINANCE 2

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 2 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 #26,616 counts this page's cases only.

41 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
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 2 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 26,616. 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 2 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
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. 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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