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PERM sponsor, #876 of 70,985 by filings

Yelp Inc.

Yelp Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 2 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on May 8, 2026. Yelp Inc. has 3 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 51% of its filings
Main worksite
San Francisco, CA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals · NAICS 519130

Waiting on a case with Yelp Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 45 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 14.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

45

#876 of 70,985

Certified

43

2 denied

Approval

95.6%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$147,000

offered, per year

Median days

433

33 faster 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 36 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

3

of 36 tracked cases. The other 33 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 10, 2025, 19 months ago.

Where those 3 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
267%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
133%

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 36 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 36, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 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.

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 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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
3 pending
$147,000 median, n=45
Prevailing wage requests
31 published
3 pending
$155,605 median, n=30
H-1B labor condition applications
417 published
0 pending
$165,000 median, n=417

Its median H-1B wage is $165,000 across 417 LCAs, 12% higher than its median PERM wage of $147,000 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.

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; 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 Yelp 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: 417 LCAs filed by Yelp Inc., 394 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

259 positions for new employment, 42 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 259 · 47%
  • Change of employer 7e 42 · 8%
  • Continuing 7b 208 · 38%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 41 · 7%

Shares of the 553 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 20 · 5%
  • Level II 173 · 45%
  • Level III 103 · 27%
  • Level IV 89 · 23%

Shares of the 385 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; 9 of 394 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 May 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 366 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 401. 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 400 · E-3 (Australia) 17. 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

    95.6% of 45 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 10% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    2 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 54% of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    68 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 95% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    7.5% of 80 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 28% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    55% of 75 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 70% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 98 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

95.6%ahead of 10%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

433 daysahead of 76%

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 48 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
433 days

This one sits 30 days ahead of 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 876 of 70,985 by volume: 875 filed at least as many filings, and 70,109 filed no more.

Just above
IP Heights LLC 45 filings
Just below
Megan Soft, 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 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 · 23 filings, 51% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 34 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

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

NAICS 519130 · 37 filings

  • Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services 5192908
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 45
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 45 of 45 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Francisco, CA 45
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 45 of 45 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Corporate Immigration Partners, PC 45 filings · 95.6% approved
How this is counted

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

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. San Francisco Chronicle

    26 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

    26 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    26 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    26 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    23 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

    65%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    19%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    15%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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 2012

323 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2026, busiest in FY2019 with 49.

  • 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
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 8 1 0
FY2015 13 1 1
FY2016 37 0 1
FY2017 24 0 0
FY2018 40 0 0
FY2019 48 0 1
FY2020 34 0 0
FY2021 30 0 1
FY2022 16 1 1
FY2023 18 0 0
FY2024 25 0 0
FY2025 10 1 0
FY2026 8 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 252. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22137-56741 2023-05-08 certified Software Engineer, CA $160,000
A-22154-66060 2023-05-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $155,000
A-22160-69421 2023-05-02 certified Software Engineer, CA $122,000
A-22158-67859 2023-05-02 certified Engineering Manager, CA $250,286
A-22145-61126 2023-04-21 certified Software Engineer, CA $167,710
A-22003-93034 2022-11-22 certified Software Engineer, CA $166,000
A-22010-96083 2022-11-22 certified Software Engineer, CA $127,000
A-22027-03968 2022-11-17 certified Software Engineer, CA $125,000
The other 17
A-22014-98575 2022-11-09 certified Software Engineer, CA $124,000
A-22003-93041 2022-11-09 certified Software Engineer, CA $129,000
A-22021-01348 2022-11-09 certified Software Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22013-98010 2022-11-09 certified Software Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22012-97360 2022-11-07 certified Software Engineer, CA $125,000
A-22005-94251 2022-11-03 certified Software Engineer, CA $140,000
A-22026-03271 2022-10-28 certified Data Engineer, CA $167,710
A-21362-91289 2022-10-20 certified Data Engineering Manager, CA $212,472
A-21362-91346 2022-10-20 certified Software Engineer, CA $130,000
A-21238-36586 2022-10-19 certified Software Engineer, CA $120,000
A-21232-34444 2022-09-12 denied Software Engineer, CA $127,000
A-21265-48608 2022-06-17 certified Software Engineer, CA $138,000
A-21189-13911 2022-05-27 certified Software Engineer, CA $125,000
A-21232-34449 2022-05-18 certified Product Manager, CA $187,250
A-21242-37928 2022-05-12 certified Software Engineer, CA $141,000
A-21238-36770 2022-05-11 certified Software Engineer, CA $134,000
A-21266-49103 2022-04-29 certified Software Engineer, CA $128,450

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 103
  • China 55
  • Canada 11
  • Taiwan 11
  • France 7
  • United Kingdom 7

Worker's education

  • Master's 183
  • Bachelor's 56
  • Doctorate 13

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 227
  • L-1 19
  • NOT IN USA 4
  • TN 1

Schools

  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 19
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 11
  • GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 7
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 7
  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY 7

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 105
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 14
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 14
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 13
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 11
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 6

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, 23 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 876. 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 45 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 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

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 24, 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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