WALMART ASSOCIATES, INC.

2,502 Green card sponsorships · 36 Temporary work filings · Retail Trade · FY2009–FY2024
1,400,000 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2024
2,502 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
36 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
$110,136 Median offered wage FY2024 n=210 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 · Software Developers (15-1252.00)

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  • Retail Trade · est. 1,400,000 U.S. employees
  • 2,538 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2009–FY2024 filings

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    -100% Green-card filings, FY2025 vs FY2024 0 vs 417

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    FY2016 Last work-visa filing

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Higher than 62% of employers Denied green-card filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 62 employers reporting headcount · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: under 0.01
Higher than 62% of employers Denied green-card filings per employee percentile · all US of 1,693 employers reporting headcount · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: under 0.01
0.2% Green-card filings, denied 2 of 925 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 2.5% · US 4.1%
#23 of 62 Denied green-card filings per employee · Retail Trade 23 of 62 employers reporting headcount, highest first · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: under 0.01
#629 of 1,693 Denied green-card filings per employee · all US 629 of 1,693 employers reporting headcount, highest first · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: under 0.01

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Higher than 35% of employers Certified green-card filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 62 employers reporting headcount · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
Higher than 6% of employers Certified green-card filings per employee percentile · all US of 1,693 employers reporting headcount · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
98.8% Green-card filings, certified 914 of 925 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 93.5% · US 91.6%
#40 of 62 Certified green-card filings per employee · Retail Trade 40 of 62 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
#1,576 of 1,693 Certified green-card filings per employee · all US 1,576 of 1,693 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03

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1.0% Green-card filings, withdrawn 9 of 925 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 4.0% · US 4.3%

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2,538 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2009–FY2024 filings

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1% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 36 of this employer's 2,538 · FY2009–FY2024 filings
36 Work-visa filings FY2009–FY2024

No year-on-year change — this employer has no work-visa filings in FY2024 or FY2025; no per-employee rank or percentile — this employer has no work-visa filings in FY2023-FY2025.

-100% Green-card filings, FY2025 vs FY2024 0 vs 417

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Higher than 33% of employers Green-card filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 62 employers reporting headcount · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
Higher than 6% of employers Green-card filings per employee percentile · all US of 1,693 employers reporting headcount · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
99% Green-card filings, share of all filings 2,502 of this employer's 2,538 · FY2009–FY2024 filings
#41 of 62 Green-card filings per employee · Retail Trade 41 of 62 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
#1,591 of 1,693 Green-card filings per employee · all US 1,591 of 1,693 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.03 per 100 employees, mean of 2 years, FY2023 and FY2024 · FY2024: 0.03
2,502 Green-card filings FY2009–FY2024
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  • WALMART ASSOCIATES, INC.
  • Jet.Com, Inc.

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 →

2,476 Certified green-card filings certified · FY2009–FY2024
3 Denied 0.1% rate · FY2009–FY2024
23 Withdrawn 0.9% rate · FY2009–FY2024

Filings over time

How many green-card filings WALMART ASSOCIATES, INC. has filed each quarter, from FY2009 to today.

FY2020 Q1: 21 filingsFY2020 Q2: 37 filingsFY2020 Q3: 111 filingsFY2020 Q4: 31 filingsFY2021 Q1: 53 filingsFY2021 Q2: 83 filingsFY2021 Q3: 207 filingsFY2021 Q4: 164 filingsFY2022 Q1: 348 filingsFY2022 Q2: 201 filingsFY2022 Q3: 193 filingsFY2022 Q4: 128 filingsFY2023 Q1: 189 filingsFY2023 Q2: 139 filingsFY2023 Q3: 89 filingsFY2023 Q4: 91 filingsFY2024 Q1: 68 filingsFY2024 Q2: 116 filingsFY2024 Q3: 233 filings0174348FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Data through FY2024

What this means

WALMART ASSOCIATES, INC. applied to sponsor 2,502 workers for green cards between 2009 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.

Subsidiaries 1

Combined: 2,557 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 ↗ + 422 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

Subsidiary Trend (8Q) Green card sponsorships Temporary work filings Employees
55 386 3,045

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