Eli Lilly and Company

208 Green card sponsorships · 1,790 Temporary work filings · Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2026
Filing volume Top 1% 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
23,862 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2025
208 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
1,790 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.
  • Manufacturing · est. 23,862 U.S. employees
  • 2% Green-card filings denied 5 of 208 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2026 filings
    5 Green-card filings denied FY2008–FY2026 filings
    54% Green-card filings certified 113 of 208 green-card filings · last filed Jun 2026 · FY2008–FY2026
    113 Green-card filings certified FY2008–FY2026
    Jun 2026 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 1% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 1,998 filings · Top 1% of 330,651 US employers · FY2008–FY2026
#66 of 22,550 Green-card + work-visa filings, Manufacturing 1,998 filings · #66 of 22,550 in Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2026
#493 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2026 filings
1,998 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2026 filings
8.4% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 1,998 filings / 23,862 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2026 filings
Top 54% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Manufacturing 1,998 filings / 23,862 employees (2025, self-reported) · Top 54% of 13,050 in Manufacturing reporting headcount · FY2008–FY2026
Top 1% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2008–FY2026 filings
90% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 1,790 of this employer's 1,998 · FY2008–FY2026 filings
#46 of 13,792 Work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2026 filings
#457 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2026 filings
1,790 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2026
7.5% Work-visa filings per employee 1,790 filings / 23,862 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2026 filings
Top 52% Work-visa filings per employee, Manufacturing 1,790 filings / 23,862 employees (2025, self-reported) · Top 52% of 8,543 in Manufacturing with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2008–FY2026
+225% Green-card filings, FY2025 vs FY2024 26 vs 8
Top 1% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2008–FY2026 filings
10% Green-card filings, share of all filings 208 of this employer's 1,998 · FY2008–FY2026 filings
#136 of 22,482 Green-card filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2026 filings
#776 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2026 filings
208 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2026
0.9% Green-card filings per employee 208 filings / 23,862 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2026 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 →

113 Certified green-card approvals · FY2008–FY2026
89 Expired 44.1% rate · FY2008–FY2026
5 Denied 2.4% rate · FY2008–FY2026
1 Withdrawn 0.5% rate · FY2008–FY2026

Filings over time

How many green card applications Eli Lilly and Company has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

FY2008 Q1: 16 filingsFY2009 Q1: 4 filingsFY2010 Q1: 22 filingsFY2011 Q1: 5 filingsFY2012 Q1: 8 filingsFY2013 Q1: 5 filingsFY2015 Q2: 1 filingsFY2015 Q3: 3 filingsFY2015 Q4: 2 filingsFY2016 Q1: 2 filingsFY2016 Q2: 2 filingsFY2016 Q3: 1 filingsFY2016 Q4: 3 filingsFY2017 Q1: 2 filingsFY2018 Q2: 1 filingsFY2018 Q3: 1 filingsFY2018 Q4: 12 filingsFY2019 Q1: 2 filingsFY2020 Q2: 1 filingsFY2020 Q3: 1 filingsFY2020 Q4: 3 filingsFY2021 Q1: 21 filingsFY2021 Q4: 5 filingsFY2022 Q3: 2 filingsFY2022 Q4: 2 filingsFY2023 Q1: 4 filingsFY2023 Q2: 4 filingsFY2023 Q3: 4 filingsFY2023 Q4: 12 filingsFY2024 Q1: 3 filingsFY2024 Q2: 3 filingsFY2024 Q3: 2 filingsFY2025 Q3: 19 filingsFY2025 Q4: 7 filingsFY2026 Q1: 3 filingsFY2026 Q2: 11 filingsFY2026 Q3: 9 filings01122FY2008FY2011FY2016FY2017FY2019FY2021FY2023FY2024FY2026
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

Eli Lilly and Company applied to sponsor 208 workers for green cards between 2008 and 2026. 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

Eli Lilly and Company has filed 4 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.

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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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