All firms · #92 of 5,678 by volume
Akula & Associates, P.C.
458 PERM cases in DOL's current disclosure window, 441 certified and 4 denied. Filed from Texas. Firm name as filed.
Cases
458
#92 of 5,678
Certified
441
4 denied
Approval
99.1%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
472
3 slower than the field
Approval rate
99.1%ahead of 62%
Median days to decision
472 daysahead of 42%
The practice, in their own filings
Who they file for, what the jobs are, and where the work sits. All of it is the employer, occupation and worksite named on their own applications.
Who they file for
- SELECT MINDS LLC 29 filings
- Advanity Technologies LLC 26 filings
- LILLI TECHNOLOGY LLC 19 filings
- 3S BUSINESS CORPORATION 14 filings
- Cognitive Minds Inc 14 filings
- S3 Technical Solutions Inc 14 filings
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 116 of 458 filings, 25% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 15-1252.00 · 260 filings, 57% of everything they file · 99.6% approved
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.0039
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.0029
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators 15-1244.0028
- Computer Programmers 15-1251.009
- Database Architects 15-1243.009
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 374 of 458 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 270
- Michigan 64
- Pennsylvania 32
- California 23
- New Jersey 17
- Illinois 11
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 417 of 458 filings.
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest this one filed between 278 and 1,272 cases. Their median wait is 467 days, and this one sits 5 days behind that. No approval rate is given for the band. A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 92 of 5,678 by volume: 91 filed at least as many cases, and 5,586 filed no more.
- Just above
- EB3RECRUIT, CO. 462 cases
- Just below
- Immigration Lawyers, P.C. 458 cases
Other Texas firms at this volume
Practices filing from Texas at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. State is the address on the filing, so a national firm appears under whichever office signed the form.
- #94 · TX Law Office of Wesley Mathis, PLLC 451 cases · none denied
- #88 · TX Reddy Neumann Brown PC 465 cases · 9 denied
- #84 · TX Farmer Law PC 521 cases · 3 denied
- #104 · TX QUAN LAW GROUP, PLLC 403 cases · 24 denied
- #106 · TX Esani & Momin PC 399 cases · 5 denied
- #114 · TX Action International, Inc. 376 cases · none denied
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one firm can appear under several. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. Nothing else in the file starts the same way.
What these numbers don't say
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles their clients file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Nothing here is waiting
- Every row in DOL's disclosure files carries a decision date, so a case still in the queue is in none of these counts. The live tracker that does see pending cases records the employer on each one and not the firm, so a firm's current queue cannot be broken out at all. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
- The approval rate barely separates firms
- Across every firm with enough decided cases to carry a rate the median is above 99%, and hundreds have no denials at all. Placing near the top of that axis mostly means being level with the rest of it.
- None of this measures the advice
- It measures filings that DOL approved or denied. Whether the case was worth filing, what it cost, and how the firm handled an audit aren’t in these files.
- A median over 445 decided cases
- DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so this says when the firm's cases were filed at least as much as anything about the firm. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover
DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.
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Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest