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PERM sponsor, #342 of 70,985 by filings

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 21 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 7, 2026. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. has 15 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 19% of its filings
Main worksite
Waltham, MA · 40% of its filings
Industry
Research and Development in Nanotechnology · NAICS 541713

Waiting on a case with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.?

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

Over 100 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

107

#342 of 70,985

Certified

99

1 denied

Approval

99.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$134,119

offered, per year

Median days

491

25 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 129 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

15

of 129 tracked cases. The other 114 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed April 22, 2025, 18 months ago.

Where those 15 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1280%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
213%

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.

RFI ISSUED
17%

DOL has asked the employer for more documentation. The deadline is the one printed on the RFI letter, because DOL doesn't publish a standard response window for these.

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 129 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 129, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

Follow Thermo Fisher Scientific, 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.

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 Thermo Fisher Scientific, 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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

    median of 9 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
107 published
15 pending
$134,119 median, n=107
Prevailing wage requests
284 published
16 pending
$139,901 median, n=267
H-1B labor condition applications
1,769 published
3 pending
$107,952 median, n=1,767

Its median H-1B wage is $107,952 across 1,767 LCAs, 19.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $134,119 across 107 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 15 pending PERM cases, 3 (20%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 at RFI, 2 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific, 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: 1,769 LCAs filed by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., 1,732 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

386 positions for new employment, 403 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 386 · 22%
  • Change of employer 7e 403 · 23%
  • Continuing 7b 552 · 32%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 205 · 12%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 196 · 11%

Shares of the 1,732 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 165 · 10%
  • Level II 535 · 32%
  • Level III 504 · 30%
  • Level IV 477 · 28%

Shares of the 1,681 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; 51 of 1,732 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 1,577 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,739. 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 1,739 · E-3 (Australia) 24 · 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

    99.0% of 100 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 26% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    21 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    375 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 452 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 42% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    60% of 424 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

    98.2% of 495 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 45% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.0%ahead of 26%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

491 daysahead of 13%

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 91 and 131 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
491 days

This one sits 25 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 342 of 70,985 by volume: 341 filed at least as many filings, and 70,643 filed no more.

Just above
HCL Global Systems, Inc. 107 filings
Just below
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC 107 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 · 20 filings, 19% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 45 of 107 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

Research and Development in Nanotechnology

NAICS 541713 · 90 filings

  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Census group 54171) 5417109
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences 541718
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 53
  • California 22
  • Pennsylvania 13
  • Maryland 5
  • North Carolina 5
  • Missouri 3
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 101 of 107 filings.

Where the work is

  • Waltham, MA 43
  • Pittsburgh, PA 13
  • Carlsbad, CA 12
  • Frederick, MD 4
  • Cambridge, MA 3
  • Lexington, MA 3
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 78 of 107 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC 98 filings · 98.9% approved
  2. Ogletree Deakins 9 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 107 of 107 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Boston Globe

    45 cases

  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    10 cases

  3. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    10 cases

  4. Boston Sunday Globe

    5 cases

  5. The Frederick News-Post

    4 cases

  6. East Bay Times

    3 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

    93 cases

  2. Job search websites

    93 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    73 cases

  4. Local or ethnic newspapers

    21 cases

  5. 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

    11%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    8.6%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    68%

  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

335 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 53.

  • 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 3 0 0
FY2009 3 0 1
FY2010 2 1 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 6 1 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 10 0 0
FY2015 2 0 0
FY2016 12 0 0
FY2017 6 0 1
FY2018 16 0 0
FY2019 16 0 0
FY2020 25 0 1
FY2021 51 0 2
FY2022 38 0 0
FY2023 28 0 0
FY2024 14 0 1
FY2025 46 0 5
FY2026 39 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 196. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22305-49696 2023-09-29 certified Developer II, CA $101,109
A-22298-45404 2023-09-14 certified Senior Finance Manager, CA $153,771
A-22272-30545 2023-08-29 certified Product Specialist Manager, MA $170,000
A-22205-93691 2023-08-07 certified Engineer II, Systems Design, CA $86,873
A-21272-51783 2023-07-21 certified Engineer III, Software, CA $170,872
A-22125-50846 2023-07-19 certified Sr. Manager, Service Solutions, CA $197,787
A-22245-16156 2023-07-12 certified Group Rewards Partner, Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products, CA $195,000
A-22262-23877 2023-07-07 certified Scientist III, Manufacturing, TX $86,000
The other 17
A-22224-04984 2023-06-15 certified Manufacturing Process Engineer II, PA $79,227
A-22237-11870 2023-06-05 certified Staff Scientist, Molecular Biology, CA $123,000
A-22201-91824 2023-05-02 certified Software Engineer III, TX $127,504
A-22189-85495 2023-05-02 certified IT Scrum Master/Business Analyst, CA $167,710
A-22175-77798 2023-04-07 certified IT Manager, MD $121,722
A-22171-74824 2023-04-03 certified Sr. HR Analyst, MA $126,194
A-22005-93850 2023-03-08 certified Product Manager - Imaging Cytometry, OR $109,970
A-22118-47404 2023-01-19 certified Engineer II, Software, TX $127,504
A-21362-91279 2023-01-06 certified Staff Engineer, Software, CA $169,562
A-22073-24870 2023-01-06 certified Senior Financial Analyst, MA $107,216
A-22086-31283 2022-12-27 certified Business Analyst III, MD $138,611
A-22104-40628 2022-12-23 certified Sr Analyst - Data Science & Analytics, CA $96,024
A-22076-26973 2022-12-19 certified IT Process Analyst III, CA $118,248
A-22023-01516 2022-12-12 certified Sr. Systems Analyst, CA $116,610
A-22060-17388 2022-12-08 certified Data Scientist II, NC $84,644
A-22059-17020 2022-12-08 certified Developer III, MD $141,294
A-22041-09904 2022-11-08 certified AEM Software Engineer III, CA $139,360

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 116
  • China 22
  • Canada 21
  • Brazil 5
  • Taiwan 4
  • United Kingdom 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 105
  • Bachelor's 63
  • Doctorate 26
  • None 1
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 149
  • L-1 34
  • TN 7
  • F-1 2
  • H-1B1 1
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 7
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 6
  • SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY 5
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 3
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY 3
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 3

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 15
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 12
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 10
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 9
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 7
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 7

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 entry 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 #342 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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 Software Developers, 20 of 107. 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 107 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 342. 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 100 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 25, 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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