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PERM sponsor, #9,570 of 70,985 by filings

WHATSAPP INC.

Main job
Software Developers, Systems Software · 60% of its filings
Main worksite
Menlo Park, CA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals · NAICS 51913

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Too few cases for a rate

5 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

5

#9,570 of 70,985

Certified

1

4 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 5 decided

Median wage

$158,400

offered, per year

Median days

1,205

middle of 5 decided

Right now

DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.

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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.

Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 19, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 29,263 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

None 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 80,773 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
5 published
no live read
5 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
5 published
1 pending
5 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
139 published
0 pending
$185,000 median, n=139

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 WHATSAPP 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: 139 LCAs filed by WHATSAPP INC., 127 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

174 positions for new employment, 12 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 174 · 64%
  • Change of employer 7e 12 · 4%
  • Continuing 7b 62 · 23%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 20 · 7%

Shares of the 272 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 0 · 0%
  • Level II 14 · 13%
  • Level III 25 · 23%
  • Level IV 70 · 64%

Shares of the 109 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; 18 of 127 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 February 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 114 of 114 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 133. 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 133 · E-3 (Australia) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 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.

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

    4 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 52% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-03-02).
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

1205 daysmiddle of 5 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 5 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 5 filings each.

Their median wait
392 days
This one
1,205 days

This one sits 813 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 9,570 of 70,985 by volume: 9,569 filed at least as many filings, and 61,415 filed no more.

Just above
National Medical Care, Inc., a Fresenius Medical C 5 filings
Just below
KDE Equine, LLC dba Steve Asmussen Racing Stable 5 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, Systems Software, 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, Systems Software

SOC 15-1133 · 3 filings, 60% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 5 of 5 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

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

NAICS 51913 · 4 filings

  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 5182101
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

  • California 5
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. This state covers 5 of 5 filings.

Where the work is

  • Menlo Park, CA 5
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 5 of 5 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Berry Appleman Leiden LLP 4 filings
  2. Ogletree Deakins 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 5 of 5 filings, 100% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2014

115 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2024, busiest in FY2019 with 30.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2014 1 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 6 0 0
FY2017 9 0 1
FY2018 23 0 0
FY2019 30 0 0
FY2020 19 0 1
FY2021 4 0 1
FY2022 3 0 4
FY2023 5 1 1
FY2024 1 4 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 108. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22256-20497 2023-08-25 certified Technical Quality Specialist, CA $151,882
A-21113-77896 2023-08-10 certified Technical Specialist, CA $123,000
A-21106-75028 2023-08-10 denied Product Manager, CA $259,700
A-21011-40871 2023-07-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $156,800
A-20321-21577 2023-06-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $225,400
A-20321-21526 2023-06-15 certified Software Engineer, CA $156,000
A-21049-53653 2023-05-25 withdrawn Product Marketing Manager, CA $226,931
A-21153-95149 2022-09-27 certified Product Design Manager, CA $221,566
The other 17
A-21012-41192 2022-02-11 withdrawn Content Specialist, CA $104,582
A-20052-21939 2022-02-11 withdrawn Engineering Manager, WhatsApp, CA $226,092
A-21167-02421 2021-12-20 certified Director, Head of WhatsApp Design, CA $316,800
A-21148-93533 2021-11-17 certified Data Science Manager, CA $217,800
A-21061-57284 2021-10-22 withdrawn Product Designer, CA $160,000
A-21168-02839 2021-10-12 withdrawn Consumer Product Marketing Manager, Payments (WhatsApp), CA $200,200
A-20120-48556 2021-05-06 certified Research Manager, CA $196,020
A-21076-63259 2021-04-19 withdrawn Engineering Manager, CA $240,000
A-20134-54104 2020-12-10 certified Data Scientist, CA $152,903
A-20128-51641 2020-12-03 certified Software Engineer, CA $150,480
A-19305-78092 2020-12-03 certified Software Engineer, CA $146,680
A-20114-46271 2020-09-30 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,000
A-20094-39108 2020-09-28 certified Software Engineer, CA $184,720
A-19242-51694 2020-06-23 certified Market Manager, CA $161,454
A-20030-13444 2020-06-22 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,960
A-20010-05508 2020-05-20 certified Software Engineer, CA $148,960
A-19352-97399 2020-05-14 certified Software Engineer, CA $150,000

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 43
  • China 40
  • Russia 7
  • Canada 4
  • Ukraine 4
  • Australia 2

Worker's education

  • Master's 82
  • Bachelor's 16
  • Doctorate 5
  • None 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 92
  • L-1 6
  • F-1 4
  • E-3 2
  • L-2 2
  • B-2 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 8
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 4
  • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 4
  • TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 4
  • BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 3

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 32
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 10
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 10
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 7
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 4
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 3

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, Systems Software, 3 of 5. 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 5 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 9,570. 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 5 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
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 CA. 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

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.

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