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Thoughtwave Software and Solutions Inc

9 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 9 certified and 0 denied. Name as DOL prints it, which is the legal entity on the form.

Too few cases for a rate

9 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

9

#5,139 of 70,985

Certified

9

0 denied

Approval

—

withheld: 9 decided

Median wage

—

not on file

Median days

504

middle of 9 decided

Fig 01 In the queue right now 9 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

2

of 9 tracked cases. The other 7 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed April 22, 2026, 5 months ago.

Where those 2 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
2100%

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 9 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 9, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 5, 2026

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 22,586 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 84,707 cases, and would be decided around February 23, 2027 (between January 24, 2027 and April 12, 2027). Estimate another date

Across DOL's programs

The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.

PERM (green card)
9 published
2 pending
9 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
11 published
1 pending
$130,707 median, n=11
H-1B labor condition applications
157 published
0 pending
$100,000 median, n=157

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 4 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    2 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 54% of the 13,693 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    34 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 89% of the 28,014 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    22% of 36 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

    28% of 36 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 46% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.7% of 30 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 27% of the 5,803 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-26).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.

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Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 5, 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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Latest filings, live from DOL

Newer than DOL's published files, so the wage and law firm aren't known yet. Each case links to its live status.

Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.

Before the PERM: wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Thoughtwave Software and Solutions Inc. Pending ones are DOL's daily check; 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

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 157 LCAs filed by Thoughtwave Software and Solutions Inc, 147 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

16 positions for new employment, 31 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 16 · 11%
  • Change of employer 7e 31 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 37 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 32 · 22%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 6 · 4%
  • Amended petition 7f 26 · 18%

Shares of the 147 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 9 · 6%
  • Level II 85 · 58%
  • Level III 49 · 33%
  • Level IV 4 · 3%

Shares of the 147 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 147 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 143 of 144 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 157. 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

Fig 02 Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

504 daysmiddle of 9 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 9 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

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 actually turns on.

What the jobs are

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 3 filings, 33% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 5 occupations with the most filings, 9 of 9 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 9 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

  • Illinois 9
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. This state covers 9 of 9 filings.

Where the work is

  • Aurora, IL 9
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 9 of 9 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Law Offices of Mary Kennedy, LLC 9 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 9 of 9 filings, 100% of the total.

Year by year since 2008

105 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 20.

  • 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 2 0
FY2009 2 1 0
FY2010 0 0 0
FY2011 9 3 1
FY2012 1 6 2
FY2013 14 0 0
FY2014 5 0 2
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 9 0 1
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 17 0 3
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 1
FY2021 5 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 2 0 0
FY2025 6 0 0
FY2026 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 44. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21342-83337 2022-07-14 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $122,000
A-21301-64959 2022-06-02 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $122,000
A-20197-76679 2021-03-09 certified Sr. Software Developer I, IL $98,000
A-20178-70092 2021-03-09 certified Sr. Software Developer I, IL $98,000
A-19352-97460 2020-12-02 certified Sr. Software Developer I, IL $98,000
A-19310-79722 2020-12-02 certified Sr. Software Developer I, IL $98,000
A-19308-78640 2020-12-02 certified Sr. Software Developer I, IL $98,000
A-19137-06669 2020-03-12 withdrawn Lead Database Administrator, IL $96,000
A-18179-92249 2018-08-31 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $125,000
A-18178-91853 2018-08-30 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $125,000
A-18172-89171 2018-08-30 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $125,000
A-18124-71450 2018-08-20 certified SAP Functional Consultant, IL $63,000
A-18137-76624 2018-08-16 certified Lead Software Engineer, IL $125,000
A-17325-12836 2018-07-31 certified Sr. Programmer Analyst I, IL $103,000
A-17331-14227 2018-07-19 withdrawn Sr. QA Analyst I, IL $79,000
A-17234-78478 2018-05-14 withdrawn Infrastructure Architect, IL $115,000
A-17227-75985 2018-04-27 withdrawn Lead Business Analyst, IL $96,000
A-17234-78533 2018-04-18 certified Infrastructure Architect, IL $115,000
A-17290-99692 2018-04-16 certified Infrastructure Architect, IL $115,000
A-17292-00669 2018-04-16 certified Sr. Programmer Analyst I, IL $103,000
A-17254-85508 2018-04-13 certified Sr. Programmer Analyst I, IL $103,000
A-17257-86834 2018-04-13 certified Sr. Programmer Analyst I, IL $103,000
A-17258-87705 2018-04-04 certified Infrastructure Architect, IL $115,000
A-17256-86569 2018-04-04 certified Infrastructure Architect, IL $115,000
A-17229-76859 2018-03-08 certified Lead Business Analyst, IL $96,000

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 44

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 22
  • Master's 22

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 43
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 3
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 2
  • BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 2
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 5
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 5
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 3
  • ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 2

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 9 filings each.

Their median wait
476 days
This one
504 days

This one sits 28 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 5,139 of 70,985 by volume: 5,138 filed at least as many filings, and 65,846 filed no more.

Just above
Procal Technologies Inc 9 filings
Just below
Microman Inc 9 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 these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 3 of 9. 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 9 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 5,139. 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 9 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. The worksite on most of these is IL. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

Your case is with them?

The decision estimator reads your filing month against where DOL is now.

Comparing sponsors?

The full ranking sorts every column, and wages by occupation covers what the roles pay.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 5, 2026 · daily

What each source includes

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting is not in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases, not the queue.

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.