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PERM sponsor, #82 of 70,985 by filings

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. sponsors green cards: it filed 139 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 19, 2026. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. has 122 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 58% of its filings
Main worksite
Charlotte, NC · 54% of its filings
Industry
All Other Financial Investment Activities · NAICS 52399

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Filings

429

#82 of 70,985

Certified

398

5 denied

Approval

98.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$136,435

offered, per year

Median days

500

34 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 593 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

122

of 593 tracked cases. The other 471 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 8, 2023, 34 months ago.

Where those 122 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
11493%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
54%

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.

BALCA APPEALS
32%

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 593 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 593, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 2026

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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

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.

  • G-100-26292-308199 Principal Engineer 1 (017040.002481) filed 2026-10-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26292-308408 Quantitative Analytics Specialist (017040.001899) filed 2026-10-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26282-290658 Lead Data Engineer (017040.002131) filed 2026-10-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26273-268970 Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant (001717) filed 2026-09-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26273-269084 Senior Database Engineer (001706) filed 2026-09-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26273-269093 Senior Treasury Analyst (002344) filed 2026-09-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26273-269591 Lead Software Engineer 1 (017040.999999) filed 2026-09-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26272-267358 Lead Software Engineer 1 (017040.999999) filed 2026-09-29 · ANALYST REVIEW

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. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

    median of 31 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 29,912 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,261 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
429 published
122 pending
$136,435 median, n=426
Prevailing wage requests
679 published
40 pending
$143,416 median, n=675
H-1B labor condition applications
3,580 published
4 pending
$128,877 median, n=3,578

Its median H-1B wage is $128,877 across 3,578 LCAs, 5.5% lower than its median PERM wage of $136,435 across 426 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 122 pending PERM cases, 8 (6.6%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 8 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 2 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 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 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: 3,580 LCAs filed by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 3,523 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

4,017 positions for new employment, 1,100 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 4,017 · 57%
  • Change of employer 7e 1,100 · 16%
  • Continuing 7b 1,665 · 24%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 34 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 256 · 4%

Shares of the 7,070 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 44 · 2%
  • Level II 413 · 16%
  • Level III 416 · 16%
  • Level IV 1,789 · 67%

Shares of the 2,662 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; 861 of 3,523 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3,328 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3,531. 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 3,531 · E-3 (Australia) 40 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 5. 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

    98.8% of 403 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 25% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    139 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 13,976 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,051 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    6.3% of 3,737 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 24% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    86% of 989 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 96% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.8% of 1,334 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 60% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

98.8%ahead of 24%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

500 daysahead of 5%

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 265 and 1,257 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
500 days

This one sits 39 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 82 of 70,985 by volume: 81 filed at least as many filings, and 70,903 filed no more.

Just above
VMware, Inc. 435 filings
Just below
Expedia, Inc. 425 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 · 247 filings, 58% of everything they file · 98.3% approved

How this is counted

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.

The industry they declared

All Other Financial Investment Activities

NAICS 52399 · 415 filings

  • Other Financial Investment Activities 523913
  • Monetary Authorities-Central Bank 5211101
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

  • North Carolina 237
  • California 66
  • Arizona 33
  • Texas 21
  • New York 13
  • New Jersey 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 381 of 429 filings.

Where the work is

  • Charlotte, NC 231
  • San Leandro, CA 30
  • Chandler, AZ 25
  • San Francisco, CA 19
  • Irving, TX 13
  • New York, NY 13
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 331 of 429 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 416 filings · 98.7% approved
  2. Ogletree Deakins 13 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 429 of 429 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Charlotte Observer

    193 cases

  2. The Arizona Republic

    30 cases

  3. East Bay Times

    30 cases

  4. The Dallas Morning News

    17 cases

  5. The Mercury News

    10 cases

  6. The New York Times

    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. The employer's website

    348 cases

  2. Job search websites

    348 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    348 cases

  4. On-campus recruiting

    2 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

    0.3%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    7.2%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    27%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    64%

  7. Over 180 days

    1.4%
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

1,012 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 177.

  • 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 5 1 0
FY2009 10 0 1
FY2010 2 0 1
FY2011 6 0 0
FY2012 14 1 1
FY2013 5 0 1
FY2014 9 1 2
FY2015 23 0 1
FY2016 33 0 0
FY2017 35 0 0
FY2018 63 0 1
FY2019 14 1 0
FY2020 16 0 0
FY2021 90 1 1
FY2022 107 2 2
FY2023 132 0 1
FY2024 80 1 13
FY2025 167 3 7
FY2026 151 1 6

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 499. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22173-76448 2023-09-22 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, GA $127,500
A-22145-61300 2023-09-13 certified Software Engineer, NC $135,000
A-22159-68463 2023-09-13 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 1, NC $113,687
A-21299-63585 2023-08-31 certified Wells Fargo Securities Banker 1, NY $200,000
A-22159-68590 2023-08-29 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 1, NC $114,600
A-22176-78413 2023-08-23 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, VA $127,500
A-22176-78370 2023-08-23 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NC $125,000
A-22160-69035 2023-08-21 certified Lead Software Engineer, AZ $145,000
The other 17
A-22160-69417 2023-08-21 certified Software Engineer, TX $144,500
A-22144-60150 2023-08-21 certified Software Engineer, NC $123,677
A-22160-69019 2023-08-09 certified Software Engineer, NC $144,000
A-22177-78429 2023-08-04 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, VA $140,250
A-21308-68374 2023-07-19 certified Information Security Engineer, AZ $129,100
A-22104-40770 2023-07-17 certified Software Senior Engineer, NC $128,750
A-22102-39471 2023-07-14 certified Software Engineer, NC $131,900
A-22062-18950 2023-07-14 certified Software Engineer, NC $125,300
A-21280-55583 2023-07-14 certified Bus Systems Consultant 6, MN $135,100
A-22140-58508 2023-07-14 certified External Financial Reporting Senior Consultant, NC $140,000
A-22110-43573 2023-07-13 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NC $127,125
A-22105-41562 2023-07-13 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NC $127,500
A-22116-46382 2023-07-13 certified Wells Fargo Securities Associate, NC $125,000
A-21300-64248 2023-07-13 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NC $130,560
A-22105-41600 2023-07-12 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NC $127,500
A-22132-54457 2023-07-12 certified Quantitative Analytics Specialist 2, NY $150,000
A-22145-60916 2023-07-12 certified Software Engineer, CA $144,726

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 327
  • China 133
  • Canada 12
  • South Korea 3
  • Australia 2
  • Germany 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 190
  • Master's 184
  • Doctorate 122
  • Other 2
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 475
  • L-1 7
  • TN 6
  • F-1 3
  • H-4 3
  • E-3 2

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 29
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 11
  • FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 9
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 9
  • ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 8

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 44
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 35
  • STATISTICS 34
  • MATHEMATICS 33
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 32
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 28

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 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 #82 counts this page's cases only.

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

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 247 of 429. 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 429 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 82. 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. The worksite on most of these is NC. 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 20, 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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