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PERM sponsor, #833 of 70,985 by filings

Western Union, LLC

Western Union, LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 20 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 20, 2026. Western Union, LLC has 18 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 62% of its filings
Main worksite
Denver, CO · 85% of its filings
Industry
Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities · NAICS 522320

Waiting on a case with Western Union, LLC?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 47 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

47

#833 of 70,985

Certified

47

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$139,464

offered, per year

Median days

481

15 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 64 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

18

of 64 tracked cases. The other 46 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 14, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 18 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
18100%

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

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 64 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 64, 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.

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. Every employer

    median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 2 of their cases were 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 79,922 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
47 published
18 pending
$139,464 median, n=47
Prevailing wage requests
82 published
2 pending
$142,314 median, n=79
H-1B labor condition applications
613 published
0 pending
$135,787 median, n=613

Its median H-1B wage is $135,787 across 613 LCAs, 2.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $139,464 across 47 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 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 Western Union, 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: 613 LCAs filed by Western Union, LLC, 566 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

102 positions for new employment, 130 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 102 · 18%
  • Change of employer 7e 130 · 23%
  • Continuing 7b 120 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 19 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 195 · 34%

Shares of the 566 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 48 · 10%
  • Level II 127 · 27%
  • Level III 111 · 24%
  • Level IV 181 · 39%

Shares of the 467 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; 99 of 566 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 12, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 545 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 611. 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 611 · E-3 (Australia) 2. 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

    100.0% of 47 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    20 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    136 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.7% of 143 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 8% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    61% of 79 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 76% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.8% of 154 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 28% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

481 daysahead of 27%

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 44 and 51 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
481 days

This one sits 15 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 833 of 70,985 by volume: 832 filed at least as many filings, and 70,152 filed no more.

Just above
Fox Valley Hospitality, Inc. 48 filings
Just below
HDR Engineering, Inc. 47 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 · 29 filings, 62% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 42 of 47 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 · 47 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

  • Colorado 40
  • Texas 7
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 2 states cover 47 of 47 filings.

Where the work is

  • Denver, CO 40
  • Austin, TX 7
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 47 of 47 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 38 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak Stewart, P.C. 9 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 47 of 47 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Denver Post

    31 cases

  2. Austin American-Statesman

    7 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. Employee referral programs

    38 cases

  2. The employer's website

    38 cases

  3. Job search websites

    32 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    6 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

    24%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    55%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    2.6%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    18%

  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

281 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2019 with 37.

  • 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 1
FY2009 5 0 0
FY2010 8 1 0
FY2011 8 0 2
FY2012 10 1 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 3 1 3
FY2015 8 0 3
FY2016 28 0 2
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 30 0 1
FY2019 36 0 1
FY2020 29 0 2
FY2021 12 0 0
FY2022 14 0 0
FY2023 12 0 0
FY2024 9 0 0
FY2025 12 0 0
FY2026 26 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 173. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22279-35075 2023-09-13 certified Senior Manager, Information Security, CO $124,738
A-22258-22006 2023-07-20 certified Leader, Technology Portfolio Management, CO $139,568
A-22194-87670 2023-07-07 certified Senior Software Engineering Architect, CO $131,685
A-22236-11376 2023-06-30 certified Leader, Solution Delivery, CO $131,685
A-22187-84213 2023-05-02 certified Software Architect, CO $116,730
A-22111-44456 2023-01-24 certified Senior Software Engineering Architect, CO $131,685
A-22108-42101 2023-01-24 certified Leader, Monitoring, CO $131,685
A-22027-03484 2022-12-13 certified IT Project Manager, CO $116,730
The other 17
A-22054-15185 2022-11-17 certified Information Security Engineer, CO $93,385
A-22041-10170 2022-11-17 certified Chief Data Architect & Head of Data Engineering, CO $217,500
A-22026-02962 2022-11-03 certified Information Security Engineer, CO $81,204
A-22018-99076 2022-10-06 certified Sr. Software Engineer, CO $94,016
A-21364-92285 2022-09-15 certified Information Security Engineer – Cloud Security DevSecOps, CO $124,738
A-21364-92314 2022-08-31 certified Leader, Release Management, CO $131,685
A-21343-84264 2022-08-26 certified Application Architect, CO $131,685
A-21326-76589 2022-08-01 certified Senior Software Engineer, CO $110,677
A-21305-66491 2022-06-16 certified Systems Engineer, CO $128,898
A-21264-47700 2022-04-29 certified Staff Software Engineer, CO $128,898
A-21237-35867 2022-03-08 certified Manager, Business Analysis, CO $90,418
A-21236-35532 2022-02-24 certified Manager - Portfolio Management and Governance, CO $117,874
A-21208-23051 2022-02-03 certified Senior Software Engineer, CA $169,562
A-21193-15871 2022-01-12 certified Staff Software Engineer, CO $128,898
A-21190-15138 2022-01-12 certified Staff Software Engineer, CO $128,898
A-21194-16620 2022-01-05 certified Staff Software Engineer, CO $128,898
A-21120-80808 2021-12-01 certified Sr. Production Support Analyst, CO $132,163

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 146
  • Mexico 5
  • Lithuania 4
  • China 3
  • Costa Rica 3
  • Australia 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 99
  • Master's 67
  • None 4
  • Other 2
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 154
  • L-1 15
  • H-4 1
  • PAROLEE 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 12
  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 10
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 5
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 4

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 42
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 16
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 15
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 11
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 10
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 9

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, 29 of 47. 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 47 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 833. 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 47 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 CO. 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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