VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES INC.

31 Green card sponsorships · 112 Temporary work filings · Retail Trade · FY2009–FY2026
FEIN 13-2993785 from DOL disclosure data (FY2024-2025)
Also filed as Vitamin Shoppe Industries Vitamin Shoppe Industries Inc. Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc.
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
5,600 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2024
31 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
112 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.
  • Retail Trade · est. 5,600 U.S. employees
  • 3% Green-card filings denied 1 of 31 green-card filings · FY2009–FY2026 filings
    1 Green-card filings denied FY2009–FY2026 filings
    48% Green-card filings certified 15 of 31 green-card filings · last filed Jun 2026 · FY2009–FY2026
    15 Green-card filings certified FY2009–FY2026
    Jun 2026 Last filing

    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 2% Green-card + work-visa filings, Retail Trade 143 filings · Top 2% of 11,817 in Retail Trade · FY2009–FY2026
Top 3% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 143 filings · Top 3% of 330,651 US employers · FY2009–FY2026
#163 of 11,817 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Retail Trade FY2009–FY2026 filings
#8,135 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
143 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2009–FY2026 filings
2.6% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 143 filings / 5,600 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 91% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Retail Trade 143 filings / 5,600 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 91% of 7,191 in Retail Trade reporting headcount · FY2009–FY2026
Top 4% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2009–FY2026 filings
78% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 112 of this employer's 143 · FY2009–FY2026 filings
#166 of 3,553 Work-visa filings rank · Retail Trade FY2009–FY2026 filings
#8,685 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
112 Work-visa filings FY2009–FY2026
2.0% Work-visa filings per employee 112 filings / 5,600 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 84% Work-visa filings per employee, Retail Trade 112 filings / 5,600 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 84% of 2,159 in Retail Trade with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026
Top 3% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2009–FY2026 filings
22% Green-card filings, share of all filings 31 of this employer's 143 · FY2009–FY2026 filings
#156 of 11,803 Green-card filings rank · Retail Trade FY2009–FY2026 filings
#5,885 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
31 Green-card filings FY2009–FY2026
0.6% Green-card filings per employee 31 filings / 5,600 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 94% Green-card filings per employee, Retail Trade 31 filings / 5,600 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 94% of 7,191 in Retail Trade with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026

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 →

15 Certified green-card approvals · FY2009–FY2026
15 Expired 50.0% rate · FY2009–FY2026
1 Denied 3.2% rate · FY2009–FY2026
0 Withdrawn 0.0% rate · FY2009–FY2026

Filings over time

How many green card applications VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES INC. has filed each quarter, from FY2009 to today.

FY2011 Q1: 1 filingsFY2013 Q1: 2 filingsFY2015 Q1: 1 filingsFY2015 Q2: 1 filingsFY2017 Q2: 2 filingsFY2017 Q3: 3 filingsFY2018 Q3: 1 filingsFY2019 Q1: 9 filingsFY2020 Q1: 2 filingsFY2020 Q3: 1 filingsFY2021 Q3: 3 filingsFY2022 Q2: 1 filingsFY2023 Q2: 1 filingsFY2024 Q1: 1 filingsFY2026 Q3: 2 filings049FY2011FY2015FY2019FY2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Data through FY2026

What this means

VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES INC. applied to sponsor 31 workers for green cards between 2009 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

VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES INC. 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.

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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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