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PERM sponsor, #119 of 70,985 by filings

Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates

Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates sponsors green cards: it filed 27 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 9, 2026. Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates has 12 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 49% of its filings
Main worksite
Irving, TX · 38% of its filings
Industry
All Other Telecommunications · NAICS 51781

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Filings

302

#119 of 70,985

Certified

291

1 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$142,140

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 283 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

12

of 283 tracked cases. The other 271 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 31, 2025, 14 months ago.

Where those 12 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1192%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
18%

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 283 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 283, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 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.

How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates

    median of 15 decisions in the last 90 days

    285 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

17 days shorter than everyone's over this window. 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)
302 published
12 pending
$142,140 median, n=302
Prevailing wage requests
328 published
11 pending
$137,119 median, n=306
H-1B labor condition applications
1 published
0 pending
1 wage, under the floor

Of its 12 pending PERM cases, 1 (8.3%) 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; 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 Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates, 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 LCA filed by Verizon Communications, Inc. and all its subsidiaries and affiliates, 1 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

0 positions for new employment, 1 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 0 · 0%
  • Change of employer 7e 1 · 100%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 1 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 0 · 0%
  • Level II 0 · 0%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 1 · 100%

Shares of the 1 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 1 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 October 19, 2021. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1. 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

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

    99.7% of 292 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 31% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    27 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 97% of the 13,946 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 31%

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 212 and 581 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
476 days

This one sits 14 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 119 of 70,985 by volume: 118 filed at least as many filings, and 70,866 filed no more.

Just above
Health Care Facilities Staffing, LLC 303 filings
Just below
Barclays Services Corp. 300 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 · 149 filings, 49% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 236 of 302 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

All Other Telecommunications

NAICS 51781, 517919, 5178, 517810 · 235 filings

  • Other Telecommunications 5179163
  • Wired and Wireless Telecommunications (except Satellite) 51714
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

  • Texas 120
  • New Jersey 55
  • Florida 46
  • Georgia 22
  • California 12
  • New York 11
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 266 of 302 filings.

Where the work is

  • Irving, TX 114
  • Basking Ridge, NJ 50
  • Temple Terrace, FL 29
  • Alpharetta, GA 20
  • New York, NY 11
  • Ashburn, VA 10
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 234 of 302 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 301 filings · 99.7% approved
  2. KTaylorPERM@fragomen.com 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 302 of 302 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    98 cases

  2. The Star-Ledger

    45 cases

  3. Tampa Bay Times

    22 cases

  4. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    17 cases

  5. The New York Times

    10 cases

  6. Miami Herald

    8 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

    235 cases

  2. Job search websites

    235 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    235 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

    6.4%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    26%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    33%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    34%

  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

1,688 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2016 with 171.

  • 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 33 2 0
FY2009 17 0 0
FY2010 43 0 0
FY2011 21 0 1
FY2012 35 0 2
FY2013 87 0 4
FY2014 124 2 1
FY2015 108 0 2
FY2016 168 1 2
FY2017 129 2 1
FY2018 102 0 1
FY2019 128 0 1
FY2020 86 0 0
FY2021 85 0 1
FY2022 94 0 2
FY2023 93 0 8
FY2024 75 1 3
FY2025 122 0 0
FY2026 94 0 7

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 904. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22258-21804 2023-09-14 certified Principal Engineer Software Development, NJ $150,850
A-22277-33297 2023-09-13 certified Senior Engineer Consultant, GA $124,332
A-22252-18768 2023-09-06 certified Associate Director – Full Stack, TX $158,204
A-22276-32479 2023-08-31 certified Senior Engineer Consultant, CA $176,207
A-22159-67891 2023-08-31 certified Princ Engr-Full Stack, FL $120,765
A-22180-80488 2023-08-31 certified Princ Engr-Full Stack [Sr Engr Cslt-Full Stack], FL $101,021
A-22235-10050 2023-08-31 certified Secur Cslt -Sec Risk Manager, NJ $130,834
A-22235-10129 2023-08-24 certified Princ Engr-Full Stack, NJ $136,568
The other 17
A-22230-08419 2023-08-24 certified Senior Manager, VA $154,000
A-22228-06309 2023-08-22 certified Sr Mgr-Data Science, CA $140,738
A-22224-04937 2023-08-22 certified Senior Engineer Consultant – Systems Engineering, TX $135,134
A-22185-82873 2023-08-18 certified Mgr-QA Test Automation, NJ $135,000
A-22206-93887 2023-08-18 certified Engr III Cslt-Data Science [Member Technical Staff Consultant], NJ $120,374
A-22201-91300 2023-08-18 certified Sr Analyst-Ops Supt (Senior Analyst - Sales Support, VPS Sales Operations), NJ $89,927
A-22214-98466 2023-08-04 certified Princ Engr-Full Stack, NJ $134,873
A-22224-05186 2023-07-25 certified Principal Engineer (Manager - Business Intelligence), NJ $131,250
A-22185-82883 2023-07-19 certified Princ Engr-Tech Product Mgt (Princ Engr-Systems Analysis), NJ $163,137
A-22194-87522 2023-07-19 certified Senior Engineer Consultant-Full Stack, TX $129,829
A-22257-21570 2023-07-19 certified Principal Engineer, FL $138,320
A-22185-82884 2023-07-19 certified Sr Engr Cslt-Full Stack, FL $133,900
A-22180-80476 2023-07-17 certified Sr Engr Cslt-Full Stack (MTS IV Cslt-Sys Engrg), TX $120,675
A-22145-60573 2023-07-17 certified Mgr-Business Transformation – (Manager), NJ $167,633
A-22185-82881 2023-07-13 certified Sr Engineer Consultant Applied Research, CA $130,410
A-22235-10648 2023-07-12 certified Engineer Consultant, NY $135,833
A-22159-67930 2023-07-12 certified Sr Engr Cslt-Systems Engrg, TX $114,504

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 802
  • China 28
  • Canada 13
  • Taiwan 7
  • Mexico 6
  • Iran 5

Worker's education

  • Master's 466
  • Bachelor's 421
  • None 6
  • Other 5
  • Doctorate 4
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 844
  • L-1 40
  • F-1 10
  • TN 4
  • H-4 2
  • E-3 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 48
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 43
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 38
  • ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 20
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 18
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 15

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 169
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 127
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 120
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 60
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 45
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 36

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 149 of 302. 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 302 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 119. 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 292 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 TX. 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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