Does VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA sponsor green cards?

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA has filed 156 PERM (green card) applications with the U.S. Department of Labor based on public disclosure data.

How many H-1B visas does VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA sponsor?

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA has filed 223 LCA (temporary work visa) applications, the precursor step for H-1B and other non-immigrant visa filings.

What is VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA's government approval rate?

Across 156 PERM filings, VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA has a U.S. Department of Labor approval rate of 99.9% (denial rate 0.1%).

How long has VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA been filing visa applications?

Public DOL records for VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA cover fiscal years 2008 through 2025.

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA

156 Green card sponsorships · 223 Temporary work filings · Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2025

FEIN 22-1585834 from DOL disclosure data (FY2024-2025)

Also filed as Volkswagen Group of America Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

Filing volume Top 2% of 330,651 US employers by PERM 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 jobI-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 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 DOLCap 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

8,000 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2025

156 Green-card filings PERM 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 jobI-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

223 Work-visa filings LCA 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 DOLCap 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

$119,569 Median offered wage FY2025 n=6 PERM 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 jobI-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 · Automotive Engineers (17-2141.02)

What this means for you

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We look at green-card filings denied, certified, and last filing.
Manufacturing · est. 8,000 U.S. employees Showing 3 of 5 measurements · Show all →
6% Green-card filings denied 9 of 156 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2025 filings

9 Green-card filings denied FY2008–FY2025 filings

47% Green-card filings certified 74 of 156 green-card filings · last filed Jun 2024 · FY2008–FY2025

74 Green-card filings certified FY2008–FY2025

Jun 2024 Last filing

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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, Manufacturing 379 filings · Top 2% of 22,550 in Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2025

Top 2% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 379 filings · Top 2% of 330,651 US employers · FY2008–FY2025

#289 of 22,550 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2025 filings

#3,442 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2025 filings

379 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2025 filings

4.7% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 379 filings / 8,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2025 filings

Top 3% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2008–FY2025 filings

59% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 223 of this employer's 379 · FY2008–FY2025 filings

#365 of 13,792 Work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2025 filings

#4,905 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2025 filings

223 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2025

2.8% Work-visa filings per employee 223 filings / 8,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2025 filings

Top 72% Work-visa filings per employee, Manufacturing 223 filings / 8,000 employees (2025, self-reported) · Top 72% of 8,543 in Manufacturing with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2008–FY2025

-47% Green-card filings, FY2024 vs FY2023 8 vs 15

Top 1% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2008–FY2025 filings

41% Green-card filings, share of all filings 156 of this employer's 379 · FY2008–FY2025 filings

#176 of 22,482 Green-card filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2025 filings

#1,094 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2025 filings

156 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2025

1.9% Green-card filings per employee 156 filings / 8,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2025 filings

Top 63% Green-card filings per employee, Manufacturing 156 filings / 8,000 employees (2025, self-reported) · Top 63% of 13,050 in Manufacturing with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2008–FY2025

Public record data. PERM 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 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 →

74 Certified green-card approvals · FY2008–FY2025

67 Expired 47.5% rate · FY2008–FY2025

9 Denied 5.8% rate · FY2008–FY2025

6 Withdrawn 3.8% rate · FY2008–FY2025

Filings over time

How many green card applications VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

What this means

VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA applied to sponsor 156 workers for green cards between 2008 and 2025. 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.

Offered wages on this employer’s filings

Median annual wage this employer offered, by occupation and fiscal year, over its own PERM 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 — beside the prevailing wage the U.S. Department of Labor determined on the same filings. Two separate figures, never a ratio. Hourly, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly wages are converted to an annual figure using the unit DOL printed for that wage. Methodology →

11 further roles in this employer’s most recent complete year are not shown: fewer than five filings per role, which is too few to publish a wage without describing individual people.

Median offered and prevailing annual wages by occupation and fiscal year. Sortable by occupation, fiscal year and filing count only.
Occupation	Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	Median prevailing	Wage level
Automotive Engineers 17-2141.02	FY2025	6	$119,569	not reported	not reported
Software Developers, Applications 15-1132	FY2022	14	$155,106	$155,106	Level IV
Software Developers, Systems Software 15-1133	FY2022	5	$169,562	$169,562	Level IV
Mechanical Engineers 17-2141	FY2022	5	$114,330	$110,885	Level IV
Software Developers, Applications 15-1132	FY2021	17	$155,106	$155,106	Level IV
Electrical Engineers 17-2071	FY2021	5	$123,000	$100,568	Level II

“Not reported” means the Department of Labor published no such figure on those filings — from FY2025 its PERM 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 ↗ disclosure file carries the employer’s offered wage only, with no prevailing-wage determination and no wage level. It does not mean the figure is unknown to us; it means DOL did not publish one.

Wage & Hour Enforcement

Source: DOL Wage & Hour Division WHISARD concluded compliance actions since FY2005. Back wages, civil money penalties, and employees affected, broken down by statute (FLSA, H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ , H-2A, H-2B, SCA, Davis-Bacon, FMLA). Data mirrored nightly from the WHISARD dataset.

No concluded Back wages Back wages — Wage & Hour Division FLSA findings Money owed to workers after a DOL wage-and-hour investigation or settlementCivil, not criminal; includes settlements + PAID self-reports; back wages ≠ fines. Use this label rather than the colloquial criminal-sounding one (§3)Official source ↗ enforcement actions found for this employer in the WHISARD dataset (FY2005-present).

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Offered wages on this employer’s filings

Wage & Hour Enforcement

USCIS visa petition outcomes

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