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PERM law firm, #62 of 5,571 by cases
JA EMPLOYMENT AGENCY INC.
- Biggest client
- PECO FOODS, INC · 62% of its cases
- Main job
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · 77% of its cases
- Filed from
- California · The address on its filings
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Cases
642
#62 of 5,571
Certified
642
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$31,200
offered, per year
Median days
478
9 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
- PECO FOODS, INC 399 filings · 100.0% approved
- Harrison Poultry Inc 243 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 642 of 642 filings, 100% of the total.
What the jobs are
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
SOC 51-3022.00 · 494 filings, 77% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 51-3022125
How this is counted
These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 619 of 642 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
- Arkansas 399
- Georgia 243
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 2 states cover 642 of 642 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 323 cases
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
- 194 cases
Athens Banner-Herald
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.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 25%
60 to 89 days
- 15%
90 to 119 days
- 23%
120 to 149 days
- 38%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
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 JA EMPLOYMENT AGENCY INC..
Prevailing wage requests
38 wage requests
Decided from November 2023 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
100.0%ahead of 71%, level with 327 more
Median days to decision
478 daysahead of 29%
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 334 and 19,139 cases.
- Their median wait
- 466 days
- This one
- 478 days
This one sits 12 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 62 of 5,571 by volume: 61 filed at least as many cases, and 5,509 filed no more.
- Just above
- Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. 642 cases
- Just below
- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP 640 cases
Other California firms at this volume
Practices filing from California at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from California 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.
- #69 · CA Goeschl Law Corporation 598 cases · none denied
- #49 · CA Immigration Law Group LLP 863 cases · 38 denied
- #76 · CA Jackson & Hertogs LLP 568 cases · 2 denied
- #81 · CA Minami Tamaki LLP 542 cases · 5 denied
- #84 · CA USA Workforce Solutions, LLC 526 cases · 75 denied
- #37 · CA MEHLMAN JACOBS LLP 1,061 cases · 4 denied
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Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 494 of 642. 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 642 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 100.0%. 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 642 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
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.
Wage determinations: Decided prevailing wage requests only, with the wage DOL determined. Pending requests are absent.