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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in Paterson, NJ

Decisions
153
Approved
93.8%
Median certified wage
$55,000
Years
FY2016 to FY2026

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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 13 1 1
FY2017 8 2 1
FY2018 12 0 0
FY2019 4 0 0
FY2020 4 1 0
FY2021 5 0 0
FY2022 10 3 3
FY2023 17 2 1
FY2024 9 0 1
FY2025 44 0 0
FY2026 11 0 0

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Limited-Service Restaurants 27
  • Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers (except Convenience Retailers) 11
  • Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 7
  • Full-Service Restaurants 6
  • Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing 5
  • Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers 5
  • Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities 4
  • Pharmacies and Drug Stores 4
  • Flooring Contractors 4
  • Other Specialty Trade Contractors 3

Countries of citizenship

  • Turkey 20
  • India 12
  • Kazakhstan 9
  • Thailand 8
  • Mexico 6
  • South Korea 6
  • Canada 5
  • Poland 4
  • Brazil 3
  • Iran 3

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 29
  • None 21
  • Master's 19
  • Other 14
  • High School 8
  • Associate's 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 30
  • F-1 16
  • B-2 11
  • NOT IN USA 5
  • E-2 3
  • EWI 2
  • TN 2
  • A1/A2 1
  • F-2 1
  • PAROLEE 1

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.