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Illumina, Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

San Diego, CA Files from CA On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — Illumina, Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 130 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 73 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
130 73 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$135,949 from 129 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
96.5% of 115 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
36
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 30, 2026 from its FY2020–FY2025 record.

  • Recent approvals 3/3

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

  • Entry-level hiring 2/3

    43% of 384 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

    96.5% of 115 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
FY20201121090223% of 109
FY202112412201035% of 120
FY202218117702936% of 176
FY202315815406447% of 150
FY202411411202445% of 109
FY202513113002337% of 125
FY2026 so far767301438% of 69
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2022, 177. 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“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.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
FY200920100.0%200
FY201030100.0%20
FY2011110100.0%180
FY201210190.9%50
FY201328293.3%80
FY2014170100.0%130
FY2015200100.0%391
FY201621195.5%570
FY2017170100.0%543
FY2018320100.0%782
FY201942491.3%762
FY202046492.0%881
FY2021260100.0%1050
FY2022390100.0%1412
FY2023 (partial)3175.0%501
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2009–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2020, 46. 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.

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$105,186$92,560 – $117,250109
FY2021$115,357$93,912 – $128,794122
FY2022$120,000$98,904 – $135,000177
FY2023$115,000$98,134 – $140,000153
FY2024$125,000$97,718 – $146,328112
FY2025$135,949$115,502 – $152,600129
FY2026 so far$135,138$118,200 – $156,99873

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 56 12%
  • Level II (entry) 135 30%
  • Level III 137 30%
  • Level IV 125 28%

Shares of the 453 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 16 filings didn't state one.

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
Staff Business Systems Analyst20$130,000III
Senior Scientist14$100,000II (entry)
Staff Software Engineer14$155,397III
Staff Engineer - Development7$127,026III
Sr. Programmer/Analyst6$117,021III
Staff DevOps Engineer6$160,000IV
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist5$130,000III
Senior Software Engineer5$152,027III
Sr Bioinformatics Scientist5$148,500II (entry)
Sr. Software Engineer5$147,368II (entry)

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
San Diego, CA305$121,597
Foster City, CA70$150,000
Hayward, CA14$135,000
Plano, TX5$130,000
Leander, TX3$134,285
Round Rock, TX3$121,846
Apex, NC2$131,893
Arlington, VA2$103,750
Ashburn, VA2$115,731
Chicago, IL2$100,000

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Software Developers 15-1252113$152,027
Bioinformatics Scientists 19-102951$125,000
Validation Engineers 17-211244$100,000
Computer Systems Analysts 15-121138$133,349
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers 17-203123$103,168
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-125316$125,000

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 company10322%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers14030%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer6814%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job10923%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere1<1%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed4810%

It also has 7 certified E-3 filings (a visa for Australian citizens) and 1 certified H-1B1 filing (for citizens of Chile and Singapore) since FY2023. They use the same form and aren't counted above.

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
FY2021545400
FY2022262600
FY2023323101
FY2024282800
FY2025363501
FY2026 so far403910

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
Sr. Business Systems Analyst13
Sr. Software Engineer8
Scientist7
Software Engineer7
Business Systems Analyst6
Sr. Programmer/Analyst5
Staff Business Systems Analyst5
Staff Software Engineer5

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
India99
China14
Canada5
Germany2
Italy2
Mexico2
Australia1
Belgium1

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Master's91
Bachelor's35
Doctorate14

E-Verify

On the E-Verify list

Illumina, 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
Illumina, Inc.San Diego, CA 921222,500 to 4,999Yes
Illumina, Inc.San Diego, CA 921222,500 to 4,999Yes

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
Illumina, Inc.
Other names on filings
ILLUMINA
Address on filings
San Diego, CA 92122
Employees
9,006, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
33-0804655
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 30, 2026

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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 30, 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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