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PERM sponsor, #1,463 of 70,985 by filings
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University sponsors green cards: it filed 7 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on May 27, 2026. Appalachian State University has 7 PERM cases waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Education Teachers, Postsecondary · 21% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Boone, NC · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with Appalachian State University?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
25 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
29
#1,463 of 70,985
Certified
25
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 25 decided
Median wage
$73,000
offered, per year
Median days
390
76 faster 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.
Waiting on a decision
7
of 34 tracked cases. The other 27 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed June 17, 2025, 16 months ago.
Where those 7 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 686%
A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.
- RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
- 114%
The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.
None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.
Follow Appalachian State University
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.
What DOL has done to its cases as a group
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-300-26147-951435 Assistant Professor of Art Education filed 2026-05-27 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26131-892363 Assistant Professor of Fundamentals of Design filed 2026-05-11 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26121-857515 Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems filed 2026-05-01 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26111-817312 Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems filed 2026-04-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26111-817683 Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems filed 2026-04-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26111-817766 Spanish for Heritage Language Learners Assistant Professor filed 2026-04-21 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-25310-383074 Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies filed 2025-11-06 · CERTIFIED
- G-300-25168-100003 Assistant Professor of African American Literature filed 2025-06-17 · RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
The 8 newest. Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.
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.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 28,776 decisions in the same 90 days
Only 1 of their cases was 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 80,916 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
- 29 published
- 7 pending
- $73,000 median, n=29
- Prevailing wage requests
- 37 published
- 4 pending
- $52,310 median, n=37
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 150 published
- 0 pending
- $71,000 median, n=150
Its median H-1B wage is $71,000 across 150 LCAs, 2.7% lower than its median PERM wage of $73,000 across 29 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.
Of its 7 pending PERM cases, 1 (14%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.
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 Appalachian State University, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26254-229090 Assistant Professor in Building Sciences 2026-09-11 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26244-207588 Assistant Professor of Oboe 2026-09-01 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26237-192022 Assistant Professor of Public Relations 2026-08-25 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26237-191933 Asst Professor-Electronic Media/Broadcasting& Digital Journ. 2026-08-25 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-25233-257580 Assistant Professor of Art Education $61,650 per year 2025-08-21 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26267-258209 Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems 2026-09-24 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26267-258197 Assistant Professor of Sociology 2026-09-24 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26174-043288 Assistant Professor of Public Relations $68,000 per year 2026-06-23 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26174-043111 Assistant Professor of Electronic Media & Digital Journalism $70,000 per year 2026-06-23 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26149-963860 Assistant Professor of Graphic Communication Management $71,000 per year 2026-05-29 · CERTIFIED
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.
Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 55% of its coded PERM filings name NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and colleges hire H-1B workers outside the lottery (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(5)(A)). Whether this employer qualifies is USCIS's call.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 150 LCAs filed by Appalachian State University, 129 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
76 positions for new employment, 9 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 76 · 59%
- Change of employer 7e 9 · 7%
- Continuing 7b 41 · 32%
- Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 3 · 2%
Shares of the 129 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.
What each box on the form means
- New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
- Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
- Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
- Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
- Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
- Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.
Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.
Wage level it chose
- Level I 111 · 86%
- Level II 13 · 10%
- Level III 4 · 3%
- Level IV 1 · 1%
Shares of the 129 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 0 of 129 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.
What it declared on Section H
- H-1B-dependent
- No
- Found a willful violator
- No
As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 138 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 150. Both are the employer's own answers.
What the two answers mean
H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.
Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.
Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
7 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 86% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
41 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 91% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
4.9% of 41 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 19% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
4.9% of 41 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 18% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
100.0% of 57 USCIS decisions
Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
390 daysmiddle of 25 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 28 and 30 filings.
- Their median wait
- 457 days
- This one
- 390 days
This one sits 67 days ahead of 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 1,463 of 70,985 by volume: 1,462 filed at least as many filings, and 69,522 filed no more.
- Just above
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center 29 filings
- Just below
- Tarana Wireless, Inc. 29 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #1,462 The University of Tennessee Health Science Center 29 filings · none denied
- #1,464 Tarana Wireless, Inc. 29 filings · none denied
- #1,461 MH Salon Group LLC 29 filings · 1 denied
- #1,465 IT Advanz LLC 29 filings · none denied
- #1,460 S&H CENTRAL FLORIDA INVESTMENTS, INC 29 filings · 1 denied
- #1,466 San Jose Unified School District 29 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Education Teachers, Postsecondary, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #2,287 Ball State University 20 filings · none denied
- #697 The Florida State University 56 filings · none denied
- #661 University of Minnesota 58 filings · none denied
- #620 University of Oklahoma 61 filings · none denied
- #6,358 California State University, San Bernardino 7 filings · none denied
- #299 Univ of WI System 124 filings · 2 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
Education Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1081.00 · 6 filings, 21% of everything they file
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1011.004
- Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1031.002
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1121.002
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1021.002
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1123.002
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 18 of 29 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
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
NAICS 611310, 6113 · 29 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
- North Carolina 29
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. This state covers 29 of 29 filings.
Where the work is
- Boone, NC 29
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 29 of 29 filings.
Who files for them
- UNC System Office 22 filings
- UNC System Office-Legal Affairs 3 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 25 of 29 filings, 86% of the total.
History
Year by year since 2008
112 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 13.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2026 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2010 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| FY2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| FY2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2026 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 47. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22271-30021 | 2023-08-24 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $88,000 |
| A-22241-13569 | 2023-08-02 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $115,000 |
| A-22209-96625 | 2023-06-06 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $130,000 |
| A-22140-58544 | 2023-02-28 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $90,000 |
| A-22143-59223 | 2023-02-28 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $124,000 |
| A-22130-53076 | 2023-02-17 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $124,000 |
| A-22122-48771 | 2023-01-20 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $68,000 |
| A-22116-46321 | 2023-01-18 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $63,500 |
The other 17
| A-22112-44744 | 2023-01-13 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $66,000 |
| A-22095-35739 | 2023-01-13 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $143,500 |
| A-21139-88866 | 2022-05-11 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $63,500 |
| A-21108-75404 | 2022-04-13 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $64,000 |
| A-22102-39591 | 2022-04-13 | withdrawn | Assistant Professor, NC | $66,000 |
| A-21075-62877 | 2022-03-22 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $84,000 |
| A-21110-76030 | 2021-08-26 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $61,000 |
| A-21101-72758 | 2021-08-26 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $66,300 |
| A-21098-72129 | 2021-08-26 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $66,300 |
| A-21088-67685 | 2021-08-26 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $112,000 |
| A-21020-44016 | 2021-07-06 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $67,000 |
| A-20115-46882 | 2020-09-24 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $87,500 |
| A-20086-35460 | 2020-09-21 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $57,500 |
| A-19354-98575 | 2020-04-30 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $87,500 |
| A-19325-86344 | 2020-04-17 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $67,000 |
| A-19325-86295 | 2020-04-17 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $64,000 |
| A-19197-31344 | 2019-09-19 | certified | Assistant Professor, NC | $120,000 |
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
- India 8
- South Korea 8
- China 5
- Brazil 3
- Iran 2
- Sri Lanka 2
Worker's education
- Doctorate 46
- Master's 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 47
Schools
- GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY 2
- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 2
- VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY 2
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY 1
- CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 1
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 5
- MARKETING 4
- MASS COMMUNICATION 3
- ECONOMICS 2
- FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2
Notes on these numbers
What this rank counts, and what it doesn't
DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The entry 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 sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #1,463 counts this page's cases only.
18 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 Education Teachers, Postsecondary, 6 of 29. 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 29 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 1,463. 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 25 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 NC. 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
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 19, 2026 · daily
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.
Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.