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Whole Foods Market Services, Inc.

54 Green card sponsorships · 219 Temporary work filings · Retail Trade · FY2008–FY2026
1,487 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2025
54 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
219 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
$108,551 Median offered wage FY2025 n=5 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. 1,487 U.S. employees
  • 273 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2026 filings

    No percentile or rank — we rank green-card and work-visa filings per employee separately; No share — the combined total is all of this employer's filings, so it is not a share of them.

    -35% Work-visa filings year-on-year change · FY2025 vs FY2024 FY2025 vs FY2024 · work-visa filings in each complete year

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    FY2025 Last work-visa filing

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Higher than 81% of employers Denied work-visa filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 117 employers reporting headcount · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 0
Higher than 86% of employers Denied work-visa filings per employee percentile · all US of 5,111 employers reporting headcount · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 0
1.5% Work-visa filings, denied 1 of 66 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 0.1% · US 0.7%
#22 of 117 Denied work-visa filings per employee · Retail Trade 22 of 117 employers reporting headcount, highest first · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 0
#699 of 5,111 Denied work-visa filings per employee · all US 699 of 5,111 employers reporting headcount, highest first · under 0.01 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 0

No count — the count is printed on the share card.

5.9% Green-card filings, denied 1 of 17 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 2.5% · US 4.1%

No count — the count is printed on the share card; no per-employee rank or percentile — 17 green-card filings in FY2023-FY2025, under the 20-filing floor.

Higher than 70% of employers Certified work-visa filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 117 employers reporting headcount · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
Higher than 23% of employers Certified work-visa filings per employee percentile · all US of 5,111 employers reporting headcount · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
98.5% Work-visa filings, certified 65 of 66 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 96.5% · US 91.9%
#34 of 117 Certified work-visa filings per employee · Retail Trade 34 of 117 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
#3,893 of 5,111 Certified work-visa filings per employee · all US 3,893 of 5,111 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1

No count — the count is printed on the share card.

64.7% Green-card filings, certified 11 of 17 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 93.5% · US 91.6%

No count — the count is printed on the share card; no per-employee rank or percentile — 17 green-card filings in FY2023-FY2025, under the 20-filing floor.

0.0% Work-visa filings, certified-withdrawn 0 of 66 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 2.7% · US 5.8%

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0.0% Work-visa filings, withdrawn 0 of 66 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 0.7% · US 1.7%

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29.4% Green-card filings, withdrawn 5 of 17 filings · FY2023-FY2025 · Retail Trade 4.0% · US 4.3%

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273 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2026 filings

No percentile or rank — we rank green-card and work-visa filings per employee separately; No share — the combined total is all of this employer's filings, so it is not a share of them.

-35% Work-visa filings year-on-year change · FY2025 vs FY2024 FY2025 vs FY2024 · work-visa filings in each complete year

No percentile or rank — we do not rank a change in filing counts, which grows with an employer's size; No count — a change between two years is not a count.

Higher than 65% of employers Work-visa filings per employee percentile · Retail Trade of 117 employers reporting headcount · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
Higher than 21% of employers Work-visa filings per employee percentile · all US of 5,111 employers reporting headcount · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
80% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 219 of this employer's 273 · FY2008–FY2026 filings
#40 of 117 Work-visa filings per employee · Retail Trade 40 of 117 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
#4,000 of 5,111 Work-visa filings per employee · all US 4,000 of 5,111 employers reporting headcount, highest first · 0.81 per 100 employees, mean FY2023-25 · FY2025: 1.1
219 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2026
20% Green-card filings, share of all filings 54 of this employer's 273 · FY2008–FY2026 filings
54 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2026

No per-employee rank or percentile — 17 green-card filings in FY2023-FY2025, under the 20-filing floor.

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 →

46 Certified green-card filings certified · FY2008–FY2026
1 Denied 1.9% rate · FY2008–FY2026
7 Withdrawn 13.0% rate · FY2008–FY2026

Filings over time

How many green-card filings Whole Foods Market Services, Inc. has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

FY2019 Q1: 1 filingsFY2020 Q3: 2 filingsFY2021 Q2: 1 filingsFY2021 Q3: 5 filingsFY2021 Q4: 3 filingsFY2022 Q1: 4 filingsFY2022 Q2: 5 filingsFY2022 Q3: 5 filingsFY2022 Q4: 2 filingsFY2023 Q1: 2 filingsFY2024 Q3: 4 filingsFY2025 Q2: 8 filingsFY2025 Q3: 1 filingsFY2025 Q4: 2 filingsFY2026 Q1: 1 filingsFY2026 Q2: 7 filingsFY2026 Q3: 1 filings048FY2019FY2022FY2023FY2026
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Data through FY2026

What this means

Whole Foods Market Services, Inc. applied to sponsor 54 workers for green cards between 2008 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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