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PERM law firm, #1,933 of 5,571 by cases
Michael Joffe, PC
- Biggest client
- Amrah USA, LLC · 18% of its cases
- Main job
- First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers · 27% of its cases
- Filed from
- New York · The address on its filings
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Too few cases for a rate
11 decided cases: too few for an approval rate.
Why
Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the firm did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.
Cases
11
#1,933 of 5,571
Certified
7
4 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 11 decided
Median wage
$73,500
offered, per year
Median days
496
27 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
- Amrah USA, LLC 2 filings
- Amrah Food USA, LLC 1 filings
- Bagelworks, INC. 1 filings
- Bajitpur hs, INC. 1 filings
- GA Newton Donuts, LLC 1 filings
- Mak Petroleum, LLC 1 filings
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 7 of 11 filings, 64% of the total.
What the jobs are
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
SOC 41-1012.00 · 3 filings, 27% of everything they file
- General and Operations Managers 11-1021.003
- Bakers 51-3011.001
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers 35-1012.001
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 41-1011.001
- Food Service Managers 11-9051.001
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 10 of 11 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
- New Jersey 6
- New York 2
- Alabama 1
- Mississippi 1
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 4 states cover 10 of 11 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 4 cases
"NJ Herald"
- 2 cases
NEW JERSEY HERALD
- 2 cases
Sun Herald
- 1 cases
Daily News
- 1 cases
NY Post
- 1 cases
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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
- 5 cases
Campus placement offices
- 5 cases
Employee referral programs
- 4 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 1 cases
The employer's website
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
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 18%
90 to 119 days
- 36%
120 to 149 days
- 27%
150 to 180 days
- 18%
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 Michael Joffe, PC.
Prevailing wage requests
15 wage requests
Decided from October 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
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
496 daysmiddle of 11 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 11 and 12 cases.
- Their median wait
- 479 days
- This one
- 496 days
This one sits 17 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 1,933 of 5,571 by volume: 1,932 filed at least as many cases, and 3,638 filed no more.
- Just above
- Onan Associates 11 cases
- Just below
- Hu and Associates, Inc. 11 cases
Other New York firms at this volume
Practices filing from New York at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from New York 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.
- #1,931 · NY Law Offices of Germana F. Giordano 11 cases · 1 denied
- #1,944 · NY Perl Law PC 11 cases · 1 denied
- #1,946 · NY Law Office of Olena Manilich P.C. 11 cases · 1 denied
- #1,948 · NY Merrill R. Cohen & Associates, PC 11 cases · 1 denied
- #1,949 · NY Wilens & Baker P.C. 11 cases · none denied
- #1,959 · NY Law Offices of John C Akbulut 11 cases · none 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 9 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 #1,933 counts this page's cases only.
- Michael Best and Friedrich LLP 210 filings
- Michael Jeb Richard, LLC 32 filings
- Michael J Liberatore PA 21 filings
- Michael Dunn Law PLLC 3 filings
- MICHAEL CHOLOBEL, P.A. 2 filings
- Michael A Jacobson PS Inc 1 filing
- Michael A. Klysh, PC 1 filing
- Michael Neifach 1 filing
- Michael Work & Associates, P.A. 1 filing
272 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 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers, 3 of 11. 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 11 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
- 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 11 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 the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest
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.