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PERM sponsor, #3,194 of 70,985 by filings
ACG BBQ, LLC. dba Sonnys BBQ
- Main job
- Server · 53% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Tallahassee, FL · 40% of its filings
- Industry
- Food Services and Drinking Places (Census group 722) · NAICS 7221
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Too few cases for a rate
15 decided filings: 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 sponsor 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.
Filings
15
#3,194 of 70,985
Certified
14
1 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 15 decided
Median wage
$19,261
offered, per year
Median days
677
211 slower than the field
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.
Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 21, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days
None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.
Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 80,340 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 15 published
- no live read
- $19,261 median, n=15
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
Every case across these programs is in the search.
How these are counted
Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by ACG BBQ, LLC. dba Sonnys BBQ, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26156-988481 Cooks 2026-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26156-988479 Cashier 2026-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26156-988475 Dishwasher 2026-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26156-988467 Cooks 2026-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26156-988466 Cashier 2026-06-05 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
677 daysmiddle of 15 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 14 and 15 filings.
- Their median wait
- 456 days
- This one
- 677 days
This one sits 221 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 3,194 of 70,985 by volume: 3,193 filed at least as many filings, and 67,791 filed no more.
- Just above
- PROKARMA, INC. 15 filings
- Just below
- United Temps, Inc. 15 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #3,193 PROKARMA, INC. 15 filings · none denied
- #3,195 United Temps, Inc. 15 filings · none denied
- #3,192 LEESBURG LIFE CARE, LLC DBA HERITAGE HALL LEESBURG 15 filings · none denied
- #3,196 HOOSIER CARE INC. 15 filings · none denied
- #3,191 Contract Transport Services LLC 15 filings · none denied
- #3,197 BLACKLINE 15 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Server, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #1,700 Sunshine Restaurant Merger Sub, LLC dba IHOP 26 filings · none denied
- #2,055 Marbl Restaurant, Inc. 22 filings · 1 denied
- #1,222 Addison Reserve Master Property Owners Association, Inc 34 filings · none denied
- #8,137 Gourmet Chefs II LLC DBA Tabla Winter Park 6 filings · none denied
- #925 Demida Corp. 43 filings · 11 denied
- #880 Miyami Japanese Steakhouse,LLC 45 filings · none denied
What they file, and where
A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.
What the jobs are
SOC 35-3031 · 8 filings, 53% of everything they file
- Dishwasher 35-90217
How this is counted
These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 15 of 15 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.
The industry they declared
Food Services and Drinking Places (Census group 722)
NAICS 7221 · 15 filings
How this is counted
The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.
Where the jobs are
- Florida 10
- Kentucky 3
- Georgia 2
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 3 states cover 15 of 15 filings.
Where the work is
- Tallahassee, FL 6
- Pensacola, FL 4
- Lexington, KY 2
- Albany, GA 1
- Corbin, KY 1
- Thomasville, GA 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 15 of 15 filings.
History
Year by year since 2023
99 PERM decisions from FY2023 to FY2024, busiest in FY2023 with 84.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 82 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 84. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22244-15668 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Host/Hostess, KY | $18,034 |
| A-22243-14879 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Host/Hostess, KY | $18,034 |
| A-22245-16394 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Cook, GA | $22,360 |
| A-22244-15824 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Cook, GA | $22,672 |
| A-22243-14906 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Cook, FL | $31,616 |
| A-22245-16419 | 2023-07-07 | certified | Cook, GA | $22,360 |
| A-22245-16400 | 2023-07-07 | certified | Cook, KY | $21,278 |
| A-22242-14222 | 2023-06-21 | certified | Dishwasher, KY | $17,763 |
The other 17
| A-22242-14210 | 2023-06-21 | certified | Dishwasher, GA | $17,992 |
| A-22242-14204 | 2023-06-21 | certified | Dishwasher, KY | $18,075 |
| A-22231-08913 | 2023-06-15 | certified | Server, GA | $17,909 |
| A-22238-12454 | 2023-06-12 | certified | Cook, FL | $26,853 |
| A-22233-09243 | 2023-06-09 | certified | Host/Hostess, KY | $18,034 |
| A-22233-09230 | 2023-06-09 | certified | Host/Hostess, GA | $18,054 |
| A-22233-09228 | 2023-06-09 | certified | Dishwasher, GA | $17,701 |
| A-22233-09226 | 2023-06-09 | certified | Server, KY | $17,784 |
| A-22215-99663 | 2023-06-07 | certified | Server, GA | $17,742 |
| A-22226-05547 | 2023-05-30 | certified | Cook, FL | $26,853 |
| A-22233-09231 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Host/Hostess, FL | $19,074 |
| A-22226-05410 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Host/Hostess, KY | $18,075 |
| A-22223-04216 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Host/Hostess, FL | $19,032 |
| A-22226-05411 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Dishwasher, KY | $17,930 |
| A-22225-05472 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Dishwasher, FL | $19,011 |
| A-22229-07541 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Server, GA | $17,909 |
| A-22226-05550 | 2023-05-26 | certified | Server, FL | $19,261 |
Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023
From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.
Country of citizenship
- Colombia 24
- Vietnam 17
- Bangladesh 10
- Brazil 4
- Hungary 4
- Dominican Republic 3
Worker's education
- High School 35
- None 33
- Bachelor's 11
- Associate's 3
- Master's 2
Visa held when filed
- F-1 7
- B-2 1
- F-2 1
- J-1 1
Schools
- ARMY PUBLIC COLLEGE ATTOCK CANTT 1
- BIR SHRESHTHA MUNSHI ABDUR ROUF PUBLIC COLLEGE 1
- BRAGADO 6552 1
- CENTRO EDUCATIVO INTEGRAL COLSUBSIDIO CEIC 1
- CENTRO UNIVERSITRIO AVANTIS 1
- CESAR NICOLAS PENSON 1
Fields of study
- GENERAL 24
- GENERAL HIGH SCHOOL 3
- ACCOUNTING 2
- BACHILLER ACADEMICO 2
- GENERAL EDUCATION 2
- LAWS 2
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 Server, 8 of 15. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they 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.
- Volume doesn’t change the wait
- DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 15 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 3,194. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
- A median over 15 decided cases
- The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
- Two sources, and they do not add up
- The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is FL. Where the queue stands overall 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
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
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.