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CGG Services (U.S.) Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

Houston, TX Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Files from TX On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — CGG Services (U.S.) Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 26 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 32 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
26 32 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$100,000 from 26 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
95.9% of 73 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
9
E-Verify
On the list as of December 31, 2018
H-1B dependent
No

Fiscal years (FY) run October to September. Approval rates are from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Sponsorship score

9/10

Computed September 15, 2026 from its FY2020–FY2025 record.

  • Recent approvals 2/3

    14 new H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in FY2022

  • Entry-level hiring 3/3

    100% of 78 H-1B filings with a wage level were entry level (I or II), FY2023–FY2025

  • Files every year 2/2

    Certified H-1B filings in 3 of the 3 years FY2023–FY2025

  • Approval rate 2/2

    95.9% of 73 new petitions approved, FY2020–FY2022

H-1B filings (Department of Labor)

Before filing an H-1B petition, an employer must get a Labor Condition Application (LCA) certified by the Department of Labor. These are this company's LCAs, by fiscal year.

H-1B filings with the Department of Labor, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertified H-1BDeniedWithdrawnEntry level
FY202029272081% of 26
FY202132310487% of 31
FY2022161606100% of 16
FY2023181703100% of 17
FY2024353502100% of 35
FY2025262603100% of 26
FY2026 so far32320094% of 32
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2024, 35. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

Entry level is the share of certified H-1B filings with a stated wage level that were level I or II.

“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

H-1B approvals (USCIS)

After DOL certifies an LCA, the employer files the H-1B petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which approves or denies it. New petitions and extensions or transfers are counted separately.

H-1B petitions decided by USCIS, by fiscal year
New petitionsExtensions and transfers
Fiscal yearApprovedDeniedApproval rateApprovedDenied
FY202037197.4%220
FY2021190100.0%290
FY202214287.5%50
FY2023 (partial)10100.0%31
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2020–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2020, 37. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

These numbers come from USCIS, which decides H-1B petitions. They count different things from Department of Labor filings, so we never add the two together.

FY2023 is incomplete: USCIS's last data release covers only part of that year (38,315 new approvals nationwide, against 138,381 in FY2022).

USCIS hasn't published employer-level approval data after FY2023.

USCIS also has records for this company in FY2015–FY2019: 101 new H-1B petitions approved. Show FY2015 onward

Salaries

Offered salary is the yearly pay an employer states on a certified, full-time H-1B filing — the bottom of the range when it gives one. Hourly, weekly and monthly pay is converted to a yearly figure; amounts under $15,000 or over $1,000,000 a year are left out. The typical range is the middle half: a quarter of filings offered less, and a quarter more.

Offered salaries on certified H-1B filings, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearMedianTypical rangeFilings
FY2020$71,510$68,515 – $91,10427
FY2021$79,500$76,800 – $90,02231
FY2022$79,500$74,506 – $83,10016
FY2023$95,160$90,522 – $113,00017
FY2024$98,301$90,000 – $107,00035
FY2025$100,000$90,000 – $108,00026
FY2026 so far$106,860$103,200 – $114,00032

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 76 69%
  • Level II (entry) 32 29%
  • Level III 0 0%
  • Level IV 2 2%

Shares of the 110 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level.

Jobs and locations

Certified H-1B filings since FY2023, with the median offered salary for each.

Top job titles

Top job titles on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
Job titleFilingsMedian salaryTypical wage level
Seismic Imaging Analyst34$90,000I (entry)
Seismic Imager14$105,000I (entry)
Software Developer12$98,301II (entry)
SENIOR SEISMIC IMAGER8$107,000I (entry)
Staff Seismic Imager6$108,000I (entry)
Imaging Project Coordinator5$114,000I (entry)
Research Geophysicist4$108,000I (entry)
Software Engineer4$98,301II (entry)
IMAGING PROJECT LEADER3$124,194I (entry)
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER3$118,000II (entry)

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
Houston, TX110$103,200

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Operations Research Analysts 15-203179$103,200
Software Developers 15-125222$100,000
Data Scientists 15-20513$95,160
Network and Computer Systems Administrators 15-12442$83,200
Statisticians 15-20412$59,155
Marketing Managers 11-20211$83,429

What the filings were for

What its certified H-1B filings since FY2023 were for, as marked on each LCA. One filing can cover several workers, so these count worker positions.

Worker positions on certified H-1B filings since FY2023, by purpose
Filing typeWorker positionsShare
New employment New H-1B workers joining the company7164%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers2119%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer65%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job1211%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere00%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed11%

Green card sponsorship (PERM)

Most employer-sponsored green cards start with a PERM labor certification, filed with the Department of Labor. These are this company's, by fiscal year.

Green card filings (PERM), by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertifiedDeniedWithdrawn
FY2020191900
FY20210000
FY20226600
FY20230000
FY20246600
FY20259900
FY2026 so far1100

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

Across all its green card filings since FY2020, whatever the outcome. DOL's newer PERM form doesn't include citizenship or education, so those two lists cover filings made on the older one.

Top green card job titles

Top job titles on green card filings
Job titleFilings
Seismic Imaging Analyst13
Seismic Imagers8
Software Developer (Batch/Infrastructure)3
Imaging Project Leader2
Software Developer2
Geophysicist1
IT Application Analyst1
Navigator1

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
China16
India4
United Kingdom3
Canada2
Iraq1
Mexico1
Morocco1
New Zealand1

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Master's20
Bachelor's11

E-Verify

On the E-Verify list

CGG Services (U.S.) Inc. appears on USCIS's list of E-Verify employers dated December 31, 2018, in a state it files from.

The company's listings on USCIS's 2018 E-Verify list
Name as listedLocationWorkforce sizeFederal contractor
CGG SERVICES (U.S.) INC.Houston, TX 77072500 to 999No

Why it matters: employers must be enrolled in E-Verify to employ F-1 students on the STEM OPT extension (8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C)).

This list is from December 31, 2018, and it's the only one USCIS has published. It shows who was enrolled on that date: a company that enrolled later isn't on it, so not being on the list tells you nothing.

How we match companies to the list

The employer's name key appears in the USCIS E-Verify participating-employers list with a state the employer files in. That list is one snapshot, enrolled as of 2018-12-31, so false means only "not on the 2018 list" - not that the employer does not use E-Verify today, and not that it did not enrol the following week. The list carries no FEIN and no case number, so the match is by normalised name and state alone.

Other things to know

H-1B dependent
No

On most of its certified filings in FY2023–FY2025 that answered the question, the company said it is not H-1B dependent. A dependent employer has a large share of H-1B workers on staff and makes extra promises about recruiting and not displacing U.S. workers.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to H1B_DEPENDENT on at least half of the certified LCAs where it answered the question, in FY2023-FY2025. false means it answered and Yes was under half; NULL means no certified case answered the question (E-3 and H-1B1 filings answer N/A). The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: it would badge 979 employers that said Yes once, one of them on 1 filing of 2,760; the 473 that answered only once or twice still are. A dependent employer is not a worse employer: the answer is a statutory test on the share of H-1B workers on staff, not a finding.

Willful violator
No

The company's answers on its filings in FY2020–FY2025 don't show a repeated yes. Employers state on each filing whether DOL has found them to be a willful violator in the five years before; this is the company's own answer, not a DOL record.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to WILLFUL_VIOLATOR on at least two LCAs in FY2020-FY2025, certified or not, in at least two fiscal years, and in at least one of those years Yes was half or more of what it answered. The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: 505 employers answer Yes exactly once and never twice, and the two employers with the most Yes answers say it on one filing in two thousand. false means the employer answered and did not meet that bar; NULL means it never answered. THIS IS THE FILER'S OWN ATTESTATION ON THE LCA, NOT A DOL FINDING. The authoritative source is the DOL published debarment list, which this project does not yet mirror - it is a follow-up catalog entry - so nothing here has been checked against it.

Cap-exempt
No sign

Nothing in its name or industry code suggests a college or university. That doesn't make it subject to the cap: nonprofit research organizations and affiliated hospitals can be exempt too, and we can't detect them.

How we work this out

INFERRED, not a determination. true when an FY2023+ LCA carries a NAICS code beginning 6112 or 6113 (junior colleges, colleges and universities) or a raw spelling of the employer's name contains the word UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE. Never false: the column is NULL when neither signal is present, because the absence of a signal is not evidence that an employer is cap-subject. Non-profit research organisations and affiliated hospitals are cap-exempt and both tests miss them. Only USCIS decides cap exemption, petition by petition.

Company details

Name on filings
CGG Services (U.S.) Inc.
Other names on filings
VIRIDIEN; CGG SERVICES U.S. INC.; Dba Viridien; CGG SERVICES (U.S.); CGG Services (U.S) Inc.
Address on filings
Houston, TX 77072
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 541360)
Employees
650, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
74-1813790
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 25, 2026

Related companies

No other company shares its Employer ID.

Sources

  • H-1B and green card filings: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, FY2020 through June 30, 2026.
  • H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, complete through FY2022; FY2023 is partial.
  • E-Verify: USCIS's list of E-Verify employers as of December 31, 2018.
  • Sponsorship score: computed September 15, 2026 with version 1 of the rules on How Visa Grep works.
  • USCIS approvals are matched to this company by exact name (1 USCIS name). The last four digits of the Employer ID agree.
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