All sponsors · #81 of 71,512 by volume
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
429 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 398 certified and 5 denied. Name as DOL prints it, which is the legal entity on the form.
Filings
429
#81 of 71,512
Certified
398
5 denied
Approval
98.8%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
500
35 slower than the field
Waiting on a decision
123
of 562 tracked cases. The other 439 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed June 2, 2025, 15 months ago.
Where those 123 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 11593%
- RFI ISSUED
- 87%
A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.
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.
A queue position is national and first in, first out, so none of this changes what any one case waits. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.
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.
- G-100-26229-172680 Senior Auditor (017040.001814) filed 2026-08-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26226-170558 Senior Network Engineer (002068) filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26226-170394 Lead Software Engineer (001376) filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26226-170027 Quantitative Analytics Specialist (017040.001937) filed 2026-08-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26225-166812 Lead Data Engineer (017040.002306) filed 2026-08-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26225-166781 Lead Data Engineer (017040.002306) filed 2026-08-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26223-160656 Senior Software Engineer (001837) filed 2026-08-11 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-26223-160229 Lead Software Engineer 1 (017040.002275) filed 2026-08-11 · ANALYST REVIEW
Approval rate
98.8%ahead of 24%
Median days to decision
500 daysahead of 5%
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
SOC 15-1252.00 · 247 filings, 58% of everything they file · 98.3% approved
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.0043
- Financial Quantitative Analysts 13-2099.0128
- Statisticians 15-204115
- Statisticians 15-2041.0012
- Information Security Analysts 15-1212.007
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 352 of 429 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.
Where the jobs are
- North Carolina 237
- California 66
- Arizona 33
- Texas 21
- New York 13
- New Jersey 11
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 381 of 429 filings.
Who files for them
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 416 filings · 98.7% approved
- Ogletree Deakins 13 filings
The law firm named on the application. 429 of 429 filings, 100% of the total.
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest this one filed between 266 and 1,267 filings. Their median wait is 461 days, and this one sits 39 days behind that. No approval rate is given for the band. 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 81 of 71,512 by volume: 80 filed at least as many filings, and 71,431 filed no more.
- Just above
- VMware, Inc. 435 filings
- Just below
- Expedia, Inc. 425 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
The sponsors ranked either side of this one, which is the same as saying they file about as many PERM cases a year. Worksite state isn't carried per employer in this data, so these are volume peers rather than neighbours; filings by state are on the state map.
- #80 VMware, Inc. 435 filings · none denied
- #82 Expedia, Inc. 425 filings · 5 denied
- #79 PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC 441 filings · 54 denied
- #83 Lucid USA, Inc. 424 filings · 2 denied
- #78 TikTok Inc. 446 filings · none denied
- #84 Sapphire Software Solutions, Inc. 424 filings · 2 denied
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 5 entries 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 #81 counts this page's cases only.
- Wells Landscaping and Lawn Care, Inc. 12 filings
- Wells, Coleman & Co., LLP 3 filings
- WELLS PLUMBING AND HEATING SUPPLIES, INC. 2 filings
- Wells Fargo Securities, LLC 2 filings
- WELLS H&H GROUP LLC 1 filing
20 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
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- 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 a company with four thousand filings waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form. 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 403 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. 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, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.
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 Sep 1, 2026 · daily