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PERM sponsor, #873 of 70,985 by filings

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 14 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on April 1, 2026. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. has 10 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Automotive Engineers · 18% of its filings
Main worksite
Chattanooga, TN · 53% of its filings
Industry
Automobile Manufacturing · NAICS 336111

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Filings

45

#873 of 70,985

Certified

37

6 denied

Approval

86.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$119,538

offered, per year

Median days

487

21 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 70 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

10

of 70 tracked cases. The other 60 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 10, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 10 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
770%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
330%

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 70 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 70, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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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. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

    median of 7 decisions in the last 90 days

    304 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)
45 published
10 pending
$119,538 median, n=45
Prevailing wage requests
107 published
5 pending
$120,890 median, n=107
H-1B labor condition applications
210 published
0 pending
$140,000 median, n=210

Its median H-1B wage is $140,000 across 210 LCAs, 17% higher than its median PERM wage of $119,538 across 45 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 10 pending PERM cases, 3 (30%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 3 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 3 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 Volkswagen Group of America, 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: 210 LCAs filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., 191 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

37 positions for new employment, 89 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 37 · 19%
  • Change of employer 7e 89 · 47%
  • Continuing 7b 42 · 22%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 7 · 4%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 19 · 10%

Shares of the 191 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 2 · 2%
  • Level II 18 · 19%
  • Level III 9 · 9%
  • Level IV 66 · 69%

Shares of the 95 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; 96 of 191 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 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 199 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 210. 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

    86.1% of 43 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 5% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    14 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 93% of the 14,049 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 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    19% of 37 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 63% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    96% of 27 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 99% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 40 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

86.0%ahead of 5%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

487 daysahead of 18%

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 43 and 49 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
487 days

This one sits 24 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 873 of 70,985 by volume: 872 filed at least as many filings, and 70,112 filed no more.

Just above
E-GIANTS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 45 filings
Just below
ORIGIN HUBS INC 45 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 Automotive Engineers, 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

Automotive Engineers

SOC 17-2141.02 · 8 filings, 18% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 28 of 45 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

Automobile Manufacturing

NAICS 336111 · 28 filings

  • Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing 33611, 33611017
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

  • Tennessee 24
  • California 19
  • Michigan 2
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 3 states cover 45 of 45 filings.

Where the work is

  • Chattanooga, TN 24
  • Belmont, CA 12
  • Oxnard, CA 7
  • Auburn Hills, MI 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 45 of 45 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fisher & Phillips LLP 40 filings · 84.2% approved
  2. Jackson Lewis PC 5 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 45 of 45 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chattanooga Times Free Press

    23 cases

  2. San Francisco Chronicle

    12 cases

  3. Ventura County Star

    7 cases

  4. Detroit Free Press

    2 cases

  5. Hamilton County Herald

    1 cases

  6. Ventura County Start

    1 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

    45 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    45 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    45 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

    2.2%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    56%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    20%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    11%

  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 2024

45 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 25.

  • 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
FY2024 5 0 1
FY2025 21 3 1
FY2026 11 3 0

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 #873 counts this page's cases only.

8 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 Automotive Engineers, 8 of 45. 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 45 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 873. 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 43 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 TN. 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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