LOWES COMPANIES, INC.

348 Green card sponsorships · 0 Temporary work filings · Retail Trade · FY2020–FY2024
Filing volume Top 1% of 332,896 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
300,000 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2024
0.12% Green-card sponsorship rate 348 green-card filings / 300,000 employees · FY2020–FY2024 filings vs FY2024 headcount
0.0% Work-visa filing rate 0 work-visa filings / 300,000 employees · FY2020–FY2024 filings vs FY2024 headcount
0.12% Visa filings vs workforce 348 filings / 300,000 employees · FY2020–FY2024 filings vs FY2024 headcount

What this means for you

  • Is this employer actively hiring — and are the filings real?
  • Retail Trade · est. 300,000 U.S. employees
  • 48% Green-card filings certified 166 of 348 green-card filings · last filed Jun 2024 · FY2020–FY2024
    0 Green-card filings denied of 348 green-card filings · FY2020–FY2024 filings
    2 Green-card filings withdrawn of 348 green-card filings · FY2020–FY2024 filings
    #63 Green-card + work-visa filings 348 filings · last Jun 2024 · #63 of 11,809 in Retail Trade · Top 1% of 332,896 US employers · FY2020–FY2024
    0.12% Visa filings vs workforce 348 filings / 300,000 employees · FY2020–FY2024 filings vs FY2024 self-reported headcount
    -20% Trend vs last year FY2024 100 vs FY2023 125
    #63 Green-card + work-visa filings, Retail Trade 348 filings · #63 of 11,809 in Retail Trade · FY2020–FY2024
    Top 1% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 348 filings · Top 1% of 332,896 US employers · FY2020–FY2024
    348 Green-card filings FY2020–FY2024
    Top 97% Green-card filings per employee, Retail Trade 348 filings / 300,000 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 97% of 7,191 in Retail Trade with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2020–FY2024
    Top 98% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Retail Trade 348 filings / 300,000 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 98% of 7,191 in Retail Trade reporting headcount · FY2020–FY2024
    Top 98% Green-card filings per employee, all US 348 filings / 300,000 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 98% of 115,208 US employers with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2020–FY2024
  • Layoff notices are withheld here: our WARN coverage is 4.4%, below the 60% we require before pairing layoffs with visa filings for a named employer. Coverage gate
  • History, not a hiring promise.

Filing pattern observations

Filing patterns are statistical observations derived from public U.S. Department of Labor records. They do not constitute accusations of wrongdoing. Wage levels are determined by the DOL's rigid 5-step NPWC evaluation process based on O*NET Job Zone requirements. Use this information to inform your own due diligence.
Recruitment geography concentration

95% of 348 PERM filings list INDIA as country of citizenship (HHI 9,107)

Immigration How this is calculated →

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 →

Certified

166

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 ↗ approvals

Expired

180

52.0% rate

Denied

0

0.0% rate

Withdrawn

2

0.6% rate

Filings over time

How many green card applications LOWES COMPANIES, INC. has filed each quarter, from FY2020 to today.

FY2020 Q1: 2 filingsFY2020 Q2: 1 filingsFY2020 Q3: 6 filingsFY2020 Q4: 5 filingsFY2021 Q1: 8 filingsFY2021 Q2: 2 filingsFY2021 Q3: 14 filingsFY2021 Q4: 20 filingsFY2022 Q1: 23 filingsFY2022 Q2: 7 filingsFY2022 Q3: 20 filingsFY2022 Q4: 15 filingsFY2023 Q1: 49 filingsFY2023 Q2: 36 filingsFY2023 Q3: 27 filingsFY2023 Q4: 13 filingsFY2024 Q1: 22 filingsFY2024 Q2: 23 filingsFY2024 Q3: 55 filings02755FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

LOWES COMPANIES, INC. applied to sponsor 348 workers for green cards between 2020 and 2024. 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

LOWES COMPANIES, INC. has filed 3 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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