BIG SWITCH NETWORKS

23 Green card sponsorships · 103 Temporary work filings · Information Technology · FY2011–FY2020
Filing volume Top 3% of 330,651 US employers by 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 ↗ + 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 ↗ volume
180 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2019
23 Green-card filings 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 on record
103 Work-visa filings 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 ↗ filings on record

What this means for you

One record, five questions. Ask as many as you like.

  • We look at green-card filings denied, certified, and last filing.
  • Information Technology · est. 180 U.S. employees
  • 0% Green-card filings denied 0 of 23 green-card filings · FY2011–FY2020 filings
    0 Green-card filings denied FY2011–FY2020 filings
    57% Green-card filings certified 13 of 23 green-card filings · last filed Jan 2020 · FY2011–FY2020
    13 Green-card filings certified FY2011–FY2020
    Jan 2020 Last filing

    2 more: ranks, percentiles, shares, per-employee.

  • Layoff notices are withheld from this panel (WARN coverage 14.8% < 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 6% Green-card + work-visa filings, Information Technology 126 filings · Top 6% of 7,238 in Information Technology · FY2011–FY2020
Top 3% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 126 filings · Top 3% of 330,651 US employers · FY2011–FY2020
#428 of 7,238 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Information Technology FY2011–FY2020 filings
#9,060 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2011–FY2020 filings
126 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2011–FY2020 filings
70.0% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 126 filings / 180 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2011–FY2020 filings
Top 25% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Information Technology 126 filings / 180 employees (2019, self-reported) · Top 25% of 4,593 in Information Technology reporting headcount · FY2011–FY2020
Top 5% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2011–FY2020 filings
82% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 103 of this employer's 126 · FY2011–FY2020 filings
#435 of 5,644 Work-visa filings rank · Information Technology FY2011–FY2020 filings
#9,305 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2011–FY2020 filings
103 Work-visa filings FY2011–FY2020
57.2% Work-visa filings per employee 103 filings / 180 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2011–FY2020 filings
Top 28% Work-visa filings per employee, Information Technology 103 filings / 180 employees (2019, self-reported) · Top 28% of 3,697 in Information Technology with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2011–FY2020
+20% Green-card filings, FY2019 vs FY2018 6 vs 5
Top 4% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2011–FY2020 filings
18% Green-card filings, share of all filings 23 of this employer's 126 · FY2011–FY2020 filings
#404 of 7,230 Green-card filings rank · Information Technology FY2011–FY2020 filings
#7,786 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2011–FY2020 filings
23 Green-card filings FY2011–FY2020
12.8% Green-card filings per employee 23 filings / 180 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2011–FY2020 filings

Public record data. 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 — 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 →

13 Certified green-card approvals · FY2011–FY2020
10 Expired 43.5% rate · FY2011–FY2020
0 Denied 0.0% rate · FY2011–FY2020
0 Withdrawn 0.0% rate · FY2011–FY2020

Filings over time

How many green card applications BIG SWITCH NETWORKS has filed each quarter, from FY2011 to today.

FY2015 Q2: 1 filingsFY2015 Q3: 1 filingsFY2016 Q1: 2 filingsFY2016 Q2: 1 filingsFY2016 Q3: 2 filingsFY2016 Q4: 1 filingsFY2017 Q1: 1 filingsFY2017 Q2: 1 filingsFY2017 Q3: 2 filingsFY2018 Q3: 1 filingsFY2018 Q4: 4 filingsFY2019 Q1: 6 filings036FY2015FY2016FY2017FY2019
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

BIG SWITCH NETWORKS applied to sponsor 23 workers for green cards between 2011 and 2020. 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

BIG SWITCH NETWORKS has filed 1 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.

Similar employers

Other Information Technology filers with comparable filing volume.

Filing data sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification public disclosure files. Past filings do not predict future hiring behavior. Employers may petition for review at /dispute.

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