All firms · #59 of 5,678 by volume
Ellis Porter PLC
651 PERM cases in DOL's current disclosure window, 606 certified and 2 denied. Filed from Michigan. Firm name as filed.
Cases
651
#59 of 5,678
Certified
606
2 denied
Approval
99.7%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
439
30 faster than the field
Approval rate
99.7%ahead of 69%
Median days to decision
439 daysahead of 85%
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
- Epitec, Inc. 55 filings · 100.0% approved
- HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM 44 filings · 100.0% approved
- IXL LEARNING, INC. 35 filings · 100.0% approved
- FEDERAL SOFT SYSTEMS, INC. 30 filings · 100.0% approved
- Lear Corporation 29 filings
- Nemak USA, Inc. 28 filings
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 221 of 651 filings, 34% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 15-1252.00 · 144 filings, 22% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Industrial Engineers 17-2112.0037
- Mechanical Engineers 17-2141.0030
- Manufacturing Engineers 17-2112.0319
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.0018
- Industrial Engineers 17-211218
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 266 of 651 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
- Michigan 334
- Arkansas 44
- California 40
- Alabama 23
- Georgia 19
- North Carolina 17
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 477 of 651 filings.
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 118 firms ranked nearest this one filed between 346 and 48,322 cases. Their median wait is 466 days, and this one sits 27 days ahead of 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 59 of 5,678 by volume: 58 filed at least as many cases, and 5,619 filed no more.
- Just above
- Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 661 cases
- Just below
- Zulkie Partners LLC 646 cases
Other Michigan firms at this volume
Practices filing from Michigan 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.
- #65 · MI Law Office of Soo Park, PLC 621 cases · 3 denied
- #40 · MI Joseph Kallabat & Associates, P.C. 1,009 cases · none denied
- #33 · MI Fakhoury Global Immigration, USA PC 1,246 cases · 24 denied
- #100 · MI Clark Hill PLC 411 cases · none denied
- #111 · MI Dickinson Wright PLLC 384 cases · 13 denied
- #113 · MI Roby Law Associates, PLLC 378 cases · 3 denied
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 608 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