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PERM law firm, #146 of 5,571 by cases
Davis Immigration Lawyers PLLC
- Biggest client
- Riverview, LLP · 31% of its cases
- Main job
- Animal Scientists · 42% of its cases
- Filed from
- Minnesota · The address on its filings
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Cases
286
#146 of 5,571
Certified
271
1 denied
Approval
99.6%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$50,000
offered, per year
Median days
488
19 slower than the field
The practice
Who they file for, what the jobs are and where the work sits, from the employer, occupation and worksite on their own applications.
Who they file for
- Riverview, LLP 88 filings · 100.0% approved
- Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. 17 filings
- Dykhuis Farms, Inc. 11 filings
- AMVC Employee Services LLC 9 filings
- Oakridge Dairy, LLC 7 filings
- North Platte Livestock Feeders, LLC 6 filings
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 138 of 286 filings, 48% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 19-1011.00 · 120 filings, 42% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Agricultural Equipment Operators 45-2091.0047
- Food Scientists and Technologists 19-1012.0017
- Animal Breeders 45-2021.0012
- Mechanical Engineers 17-2141.0011
- Electrical Engineers 17-2071.006
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 213 of 286 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
- Minnesota 92
- South Dakota 38
- Michigan 28
- Nebraska 13
- Iowa 11
- Wisconsin 11
How this is counted
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 193 of 286 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 45 cases
Star Tribune
- 23 cases
MN Star Tribune
- 21 cases
Argus Leader
- 19 cases
The Minnesota Star Tribune
- 15 cases
Aberdeen American News
- 11 cases
The Holland Sentinel
How this is counted
The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.
Additional steps it used
- 190 cases
Job search websites
- 175 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 166 cases
Campus placement offices
- 20 cases
Radio or TV ads
- 19 cases
The employer's website
- 5 cases
Trade or professional organizations
How this is counted
The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.4%
30 to 59 days
- 27%
60 to 89 days
- 19%
90 to 119 days
- 21%
120 to 149 days
- 32%
150 to 180 days
- 0.4%
Over 180 days
How this is counted
Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.
Every program
Beyond PERM: its other work for clients
DOL names the law firm or agent on each H-1B labor condition application, prevailing wage request and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 application it publishes. These are the ones that name Davis Immigration Lawyers PLLC, under 2 spellings of its name.
H-1B LCAs
384 LCAs filed for clients, 95% certified
Decided from July 2024 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
Prevailing wage requests
319 wage requests
Decided from August 2024 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
H-2A, H-2B and CW-1
62 applications, 82% certified
Decided from October 2024 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
Against other firms
Where it sits among 5,571 firms. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
99.6%ahead of 69%
Median days to decision
488 daysahead of 10%
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 210 and 512 cases.
- Their median wait
- 469 days
- This one
- 488 days
This one sits 19 days behind them.
Why no approval rate
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 146 of 5,571 by volume: 145 filed at least as many cases, and 5,425 filed no more.
- Just above
- Law Offices of Weicheng Wang 286 cases
- Just below
- American Immigration Law, PLLC 286 cases
Other Minnesota firms at this volume
Practices filing from Minnesota at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from Minnesota 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.
- #148 · MN Nilan Johnson Lewis PA 284 cases · 6 denied
- #128 · MN Karam Law 324 cases · none denied
- #101 · MN Davis and Goldfarb, PLLC 409 cases · 11 denied
- #203 · MN Bruner Law Group, PLLC 213 cases · 1 denied
- #79 · MN Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 550 cases · 2 denied
- #58 · MN Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 661 cases · 3 denied
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Notes on these numbers
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. The 6 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same firm; some are a different one. Rank #146 counts this page's cases only.
- Davis and Goldfarb, PLLC 409 filings
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 104 filings
- Davis & Associates 76 filings
- Davis & Davis, P.C. 61 filings
- Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, P.C. 38 filings
- Davis & Campbell LLC 12 filings
700 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Animal Scientists, 120 of 286. 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
- All 286 of the cases on this page carry a decision date, because every row in DOL's disclosure files does, 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
- This firm is at 99.6%. 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 272 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 PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this firm until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Wage determinations: DOL quarterly PW disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.
LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.
Wage determinations: Decided prevailing wage requests only, with the wage DOL determined. Pending requests are absent.