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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in Ottumwa, IA

Decisions
22
Approved
95.5%
Median certified wage
$210,000
Years
FY2016 to FY2025

Year by year

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, FY2024 on from its current ones; the newest year is partial until DOL publishes its fourth quarter.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2016 4 1 0
FY2017 0 0 0
FY2018 2 0 0
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 2 0 0
FY2024 3 0 0
FY2025 6 0 0

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 9
  • Agricultural Implement Manufacturing 3
  • Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering 2
  • Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing 2
  • General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2
  • Agriculture, Construction, and Mining Machinery Manufacturing 1
  • Poultry Processing 1
  • Offices of Physicians 1
  • General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 1

Countries of citizenship

  • India 4
  • Nigeria 2
  • Cameroon 2
  • Dominican Republic 1
  • Lebanon 1
  • Libya 1
  • Pakistan 1
  • Philippines 1
  • Bangladesh 1

Worker's education

  • Other 13
  • Master's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 14

The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled; a city counts as one place per state.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting is not in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases, not the queue.