Does DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC sponsor green cards?

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC has filed 66 PERM (green card) applications with the U.S. Department of Labor based on public disclosure data.

How many H-1B visas does DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC sponsor?

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC has filed 195 LCA (temporary work visa) applications, the precursor step for H-1B and other non-immigrant visa filings.

How long has DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC been filing visa applications?

Public DOL records for DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC cover fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC

66 Green card sponsorships · 195 Temporary work filings · Finance & Insurance · FY2008–FY2012

Filing volume Top 2% of 330,651 US employers by PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the jobI-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ + LCA LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ volume

66 Green-card filings PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the jobI-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings on record

195 Work-visa filings LCA LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings on record

$91,830 Median offered wage FY2011 n=6 PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the jobI-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings · Operations Research Analysts (15-2031.00)

Employee count unavailable - public companies (SEC) and PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the jobI-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ -self-reporting employers only

What this means for you

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We look at green-card filings denied, filings certified, and filings, FY2012 vs FY2011.
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2% Green-card filings denied 1 of 66 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2012 filings

1 Green-card filings denied FY2008–FY2012 filings

26% Green-card filings certified 17 of 66 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2012

17 Green-card filings certified FY2008–FY2012

2 more: ranks, percentiles, shares, per-employee.
Layoff notices are withheld from this panel (WARN coverage 35.7% < 60%) → see the WARN notices tab. Coverage gate
History, not a hiring promise.

Every measurement we computed

The same for every question above, so it is shown once here. Ranks count filings, never opinions; each card names what it counted and the group it was ranked against.

Top 4% Green-card + work-visa filings, Finance & Insurance 261 filings · Top 4% of 8,302 in Finance & Insurance · FY2008–FY2012

Top 2% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 261 filings · Top 2% of 330,651 US employers · FY2008–FY2012

#330 of 8,302 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2008–FY2012 filings

#4,920 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2012 filings

261 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2012 filings

Top 3% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2008–FY2012 filings

75% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 195 of this employer's 261 · FY2008–FY2012 filings

#352 of 6,269 Work-visa filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2008–FY2012 filings

#5,485 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2012 filings

195 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2012 filings

-83% Green-card filings, FY2012 vs FY2011 2 vs 12

Top 2% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2008–FY2012 filings

25% Green-card filings, share of all filings 66 of this employer's 261 · FY2008–FY2012 filings

#244 of 8,270 Green-card filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2008–FY2012 filings

#2,845 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2012 filings

66 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2012

Public record data. PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ and LCA LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filing data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure files. Methodology →

17 Certified green-card approvals · FY2008–FY2012

47 Expired 73.4% rate · FY2008–FY2012

1 Denied 1.5% rate · FY2008–FY2012

1 Withdrawn 1.5% rate · FY2008–FY2012

Filings over time

How many green card applications DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

What this means

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC applied to sponsor 66 workers for green cards between 2008 and 2012. A green card application is what an employer files to help a worker stay in the U.S. permanently.

Important: everything on this page is derived from public U.S. Department of Labor records. It is not a statement of fraud, wrongdoing, or hiring intent. It describes observable filing patterns only.

Recent layoff notices

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC has filed 3 WARN WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act layoff notice(s) with state workforce agencies. These are public layoff notifications required by federal law.

Offered wages on this employer’s filings

Median annual wage this employer offered, by occupation and fiscal year, over its own PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings — beside the prevailing wage the U.S. Department of Labor determined on the same filings. Two separate figures, never a ratio. Hourly, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly wages are converted to an annual figure using the unit DOL printed for that wage. Methodology →

5 further roles in this employer’s most recent complete year are not shown: fewer than five filings per role, which is too few to publish a wage without describing individual people.

Median offered and prevailing annual wages by occupation and fiscal year. Sortable by occupation, fiscal year and filing count only.
Occupation	Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	Median prevailing	Wage level
Operations Research Analysts 15-2031.00	FY2011	6	$91,830	$80,028	Level I
Operations Research Analysts 15-2031.00	FY2010	7	$92,925	$79,269	Level I
Statisticians 15-2041.00	FY2010	6	$92,500	$51,834	Level I

“Not reported” means the Department of Labor published no such figure on those filings — from FY2025 its PERM PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ disclosure file carries the employer’s offered wage only, with no prevailing-wage determination and no wage level. It does not mean the figure is unknown to us; it means DOL did not publish one.

Wage & Hour Enforcement

Source: DOL Wage & Hour Division WHISARD concluded compliance actions since FY2005. Back wages, civil money penalties, and employees affected, broken down by statute (FLSA, H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ , H-2A, H-2B, SCA, Davis-Bacon, FMLA). Data mirrored nightly from the WHISARD dataset.

No concluded Back wages Back wages — Wage & Hour Division FLSA findings Money owed to workers after a DOL wage-and-hour investigation or settlementCivil, not criminal; includes settlements + PAID self-reports; back wages ≠ fines. Use this label rather than the colloquial criminal-sounding one (§3)Official source ↗ enforcement actions found for this employer in the WHISARD dataset (FY2005-present).

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Offered wages on this employer’s filings

Wage & Hour Enforcement

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