All firms · #420 of 5,678 by volume
Harry D Polatsek, P.A.
104 PERM cases in DOL's current disclosure window, 99 certified and 2 denied. Filed from Florida. Firm name as filed.
This rate is level with the field
Computed over 101 decided cases. The 95% interval runs up to a 6.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records, so this record can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Cases
104
#420 of 5,678
Certified
99
2 denied
Approval
98.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
468
1 faster than the field
Approval rate
98.0%ahead of 46%
Median days to decision
468 daysahead of 50%
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
- Smurfit Kappa North America LLC 7 filings
- EDSA, Inc. 6 filings
- E-Builder, Inc. 3 filings
- Lauderdale Tankers Corp. 3 filings
- Motor Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. 3 filings
- CENTRAL DYNAMICS LLC 2 filings
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 24 of 104 filings, 23% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 13-1111.00 · 12 filings, 12% of everything they file
- Architectural and Engineering Managers 11-9041.005
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 13-1161.004
- Treasurers and Controllers 11-3031.014
- Architectural and Engineering Managers 11-90413
- Management Analysts 13-11113
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 31 of 104 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
- Florida 78
- Texas 10
- California 4
- Illinois 2
- North Carolina 2
- Pennsylvania 2
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 98 of 104 filings.
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest this one filed between 92 and 120 cases. Their median wait is 472 days, and this one sits 4 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 420 of 5,678 by volume: 419 filed at least as many cases, and 5,258 filed no more.
- Just above
- LAWRENCE J. NEEDLE, PA 105 cases
- Just below
- Moore & Van Allen PLLC 104 cases
Other Florida firms at this volume
Practices filing from Florida 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.
- #417 · FL Law Office of Shayne Epstein 106 cases · 12 denied
- #431 · FL Cisneros Immigration Law Firm 101 cases · none denied
- #407 · FL Andrade Law Firm PLLC 109 cases · 3 denied
- #435 · FL Rivkin Radler LLP 101 cases · 1 denied
- #398 · FL Robert S Kleinman PA 112 cases · 10 denied
- #382 · FL EPSTEIN LAW GROUP, PLLC 115 cases · 1 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 101 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