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PERM sponsor, #86 of 70,985 by filings

Visa Technology & Operations LLC

Visa Technology & Operations LLC has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 41% of its filings
Main worksite
Austin, TX · 50% of its filings
Industry
Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities · NAICS 522320

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Filings

416

#86 of 70,985

Certified

387

1 denied

Approval

99.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$132,200

offered, per year

Median days

482

16 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 325 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 325 tracked cases. The other 324 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 10, 2024, 27 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

BALCA APPEALS
1100%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

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 325 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 325, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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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.

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. Every employer

    median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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)
416 published
1 pending
$132,200 median, n=416
Prevailing wage requests
440 published
1 pending
$133,952 median, n=413
H-1B labor condition applications
3,738 published
9 pending
$124,904 median, n=3,734

Its median H-1B wage is $124,904 across 3,734 LCAs, 5.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $132,200 across 416 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 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 Visa Technology & Operations LLC, 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: 3,738 LCAs filed by Visa Technology & Operations LLC, 3,656 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,659 positions for new employment, 679 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,659 · 34%
  • Change of employer 7e 679 · 14%
  • Continuing 7b 2,149 · 45%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 96 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 239 · 5%

Shares of the 4,822 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 100 · 3%
  • Level II 1,071 · 33%
  • Level III 494 · 15%
  • Level IV 1,561 · 48%

Shares of the 3,226 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; 430 of 3,656 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 2,803 of 3,511 LCAs, and a willful violator on 3 of 3,723. 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 3,723 · E-3 (Australia) 12 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 3. 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

    99.7% of 388 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 32% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    881 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    7.8% of 1,024 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 29% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    73% of 905 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 87% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 1,218 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 3 LCAs.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

99.7%ahead of 32%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

482 daysahead of 25%

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 259 and 1,108 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
482 days

This one sits 21 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 86 of 70,985 by volume: 85 filed at least as many filings, and 70,899 filed no more.

Just above
Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. 424 filings
Just below
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. 412 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 · 170 filings, 41% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 313 of 416 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

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities

NAICS 522320, 52232 · 416 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

  • Texas 206
  • California 112
  • Colorado 47
  • Georgia 32
  • Virginia 17
  • Utah 1
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 415 of 416 filings.

Where the work is

  • Austin, TX 206
  • Foster City, CA 101
  • Highlands Ranch, CO 46
  • Atlanta, GA 32
  • Ashburn, VA 17
  • Palo Alto, CA 11
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 413 of 416 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 415 filings · 99.7% approved
  2. Berry Applemen Leiden LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 416 of 416 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Austin American-Statesman

    150 cases

  2. San Francisco Chronicle

    79 cases

  3. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    31 cases

  4. The Denver Post

    27 cases

  5. The Washington Post

    15 cases

  6. The Mercury News

    9 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. Job search websites

    315 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    279 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    279 cases

  4. The employer's website

    40 cases

  5. Employee referral programs

    38 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

    4.7%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    11%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    18%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    66%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.6%
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 2018

1,177 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 240.

  • 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
FY2018 27 0 0
FY2019 124 1 3
FY2020 171 0 3
FY2021 129 1 8
FY2022 156 0 3
FY2023 114 0 21
FY2024 130 1 9
FY2025 222 0 18
FY2026 35 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 761. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22314-55787 2023-09-28 withdrawn Cybersecurity Engineer, CA $157,510
A-22285-37934 2023-09-22 certified Data Scientist, VA $124,900
A-22281-36009 2023-09-12 certified Systems Analyst, TX $139,860
A-22277-33163 2023-08-31 certified Sr. Systems Engineer, TX $119,600
A-22209-96569 2023-08-30 certified Senior Software Engineer, TX $102,655
A-22259-23064 2023-08-29 certified Sr. SW Test Engineer, CO $110,700
A-22202-92451 2023-08-25 certified Lead Data Engineer, CA $234,200
A-22265-26283 2023-08-24 certified Sr. SW Engineer, CO $116,760
The other 17
A-22210-97186 2023-08-23 certified Cybersecurity Engineer, CO $138,966
A-22208-96010 2023-08-18 certified Sr. SW Test Engineer, TX $102,821
A-22238-12715 2023-08-11 certified Sr. Systems Analyst, TX $124,800
A-22210-97091 2023-08-09 certified Sr. SW Engineer, CO $116,480
A-22199-89969 2023-08-08 certified Sr SW Engineer, TX $127,504
A-22166-72171 2023-08-08 certified Sr. SW Engineer, TX $127,504
A-22146-61825 2023-08-01 certified Systems Analyst, TX $109,200
A-22266-27256 2023-07-31 certified Systems Analyst, CO $97,218
A-22238-12578 2023-07-27 certified Systems Analyst, TX $105,000
A-22094-35039 2023-07-27 withdrawn Lead Systems Analyst, CA $165,816
A-22118-47773 2023-07-21 certified Sr. Software Engineer, CA $122,265
A-22061-18160 2023-07-21 certified Sr. SW Engineer, TX $110,090
A-22210-97097 2023-07-20 certified Project Analyst, TX $131,206
A-22174-77478 2023-07-19 certified Sr. Systems Administrator, CO $123,930
A-22199-90011 2023-07-19 certified Staff SW Engineer, TX $127,504
A-22259-22685 2023-07-19 certified Cybersecurity Engineer, VA $131,084
A-22210-97016 2023-07-19 certified Sr. Systems Analyst, TX $116,620

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 670
  • China 43
  • Nigeria 21
  • Mexico 7
  • Canada 3
  • Taiwan 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 498
  • Bachelor's 243
  • None 11
  • Doctorate 9

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 734
  • L-1 18
  • F-1 5
  • H-4 2
  • TN 2

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 28
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY 25
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 25
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS 17
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 16
  • SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY 16

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 183
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 88
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 60
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 47
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 35
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 35

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 #86 counts this page's cases only.

262 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 Software Developers, 170 of 416. 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 416 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 86. 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 388 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 21, 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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