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PERM sponsorship by city

PERM jobs in West Chicago, IL

Decisions
85
Approved
92.5%
Median certified wage
$58,926
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 2 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 2 1 0
FY2020 3 1 0
FY2021 5 0 0
FY2022 11 2 0
FY2023 9 0 0
FY2024 17 2 4
FY2025 9 0 0
FY2026 10 0 1

Top sponsors

Top occupations

Industries

  • Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 23
  • General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload 15
  • Starch and Vegetable Fats and Oils Manufacturing 5
  • Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling 4
  • General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance 3
  • General Freight Trucking 3
  • Wood Window and Door Manufacturing 2
  • Floriculture Production 2
  • Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers 2
  • Residential Building Construction 2

Countries of citizenship

  • Turkey 9
  • India 8
  • Philippines 7
  • Poland 6
  • Colombia 3
  • Canada 3
  • Germany 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Serbia 1
  • Kazakhstan 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 16
  • High School 14
  • Master's 9
  • None 5
  • Other 4
  • Doctorate 1
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 10
  • NOT IN USA 6
  • F-1 5
  • L-1 3
  • J-1 2
  • B-2 2
  • E-2 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.