Upgrade, Inc.

71 Green card sponsorships · 208 Temporary work filings · Finance & Insurance · FY2017–FY2026
Filing volume Top 1% of all ranked 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
1,488 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2025
71 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
208 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, filings certified, and filings, FY2025 vs FY2024.
  • Finance & Insurance · est. 1,488 U.S. employees
  • 1% Green-card filings denied 1 of 71 green-card filings · FY2017–FY2026 filings
    1 Green-card filings denied FY2017–FY2026 filings
    51% Green-card filings certified 36 of 71 green-card filings · FY2017–FY2026
    36 Green-card filings certified FY2017–FY2026

    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.

279 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2017–FY2026 filings
18.8% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 279 filings / 1,488 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2017–FY2026 filings
75% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 208 of this employer's 279 · FY2017–FY2026 filings
208 Work-visa filings FY2017–FY2026
14.0% Work-visa filings per employee 208 filings / 1,488 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2017–FY2026 filings
+229% Green-card filings, FY2025 vs FY2024 23 vs 7
25% Green-card filings, share of all filings 71 of this employer's 279 · FY2017–FY2026 filings
71 Green-card filings FY2017–FY2026
4.8% Green-card filings per employee 71 filings / 1,488 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2017–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 →

36 Certified green-card approvals · FY2017–FY2026
25 Expired 41.0% rate · FY2017–FY2026
1 Denied 1.4% rate · FY2017–FY2026
9 Withdrawn 12.7% rate · FY2017–FY2026

Filings over time

How many green card applications Upgrade, Inc. has filed each quarter, from FY2017 to today.

FY2017 Q4: 1 filingsFY2018 Q1: 3 filingsFY2018 Q2: 2 filingsFY2018 Q3: 3 filingsFY2018 Q4: 2 filingsFY2019 Q1: 3 filingsFY2020 Q3: 2 filingsFY2021 Q2: 1 filingsFY2021 Q3: 1 filingsFY2022 Q3: 2 filingsFY2022 Q4: 2 filingsFY2023 Q1: 2 filingsFY2023 Q2: 2 filingsFY2023 Q3: 2 filingsFY2024 Q1: 1 filingsFY2024 Q2: 2 filingsFY2024 Q3: 4 filingsFY2025 Q1: 2 filingsFY2025 Q2: 11 filingsFY2025 Q3: 4 filingsFY2025 Q4: 6 filingsFY2026 Q1: 4 filingsFY2026 Q2: 1 filingsFY2026 Q3: 8 filings0511FY2017FY2019FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Data through FY2026

What this means

Upgrade, Inc. applied to sponsor 71 workers for green cards between 2017 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.

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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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