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PERM sponsor, #379 of 70,985 by filings

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Archer Daniels Midland Company sponsors green cards: it filed 30 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 8, 2026. Archer Daniels Midland Company has 23 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 30% of its filings
Main worksite
Erlanger, KY · 63% of its filings
Industry
Other Food Manufacturing · NAICS 3119

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Filings

97

#379 of 70,985

Certified

75

11 denied

Approval

87.2%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$140,016

offered, per year

Median days

448

18 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.

In the queue right now 120 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

23

of 120 tracked cases. The other 97 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 12, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 23 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
23100%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.

From DOL's live status of 120 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 120, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

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

  1. Archer Daniels Midland Company

    median of 9 decisions in the last 90 days

    309 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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)
97 published
23 pending
$140,016 median, n=97
Prevailing wage requests
159 published
23 pending
$105,934 median, n=153
H-1B labor condition applications
677 published
0 pending
$120,000 median, n=675

Its median H-1B wage is $120,000 across 675 LCAs, 14.3% lower than its median PERM wage of $140,016 across 97 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.

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 Archer Daniels Midland Company, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 677 LCAs filed by Archer Daniels Midland Company, 648 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

149 positions for new employment, 219 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 149 · 23%
  • Change of employer 7e 219 · 34%
  • Continuing 7b 129 · 20%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 91 · 14%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 60 · 9%

Shares of the 648 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 37 · 6%
  • Level II 155 · 24%
  • Level III 270 · 42%
  • Level IV 186 · 29%

Shares of the 648 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 648 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 11, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 644 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 674. 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

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 674 · E-3 (Australia) 2 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 1. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

Against other sponsors

Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    87.2% of 86 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 5% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    30 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 97% of the 13,995 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    187 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 221 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 57% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    70% of 221 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 84% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

  • USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years

    100.0% of 286 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

87.2%ahead of 5%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

448 daysahead of 68%

5d 1152d
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. Sponsors with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 82 and 116 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
448 days

This one sits 20 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 379 of 70,985 by volume: 378 filed at least as many filings, and 70,606 filed no more.

Just above
American Steel Carports INC 98 filings
Just below
MAS, Inc 97 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

Sponsors hiring for the same work

The employers filing the most PERM cases for Software Developers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.

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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 29 filings, 30% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 65 of 97 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

Other Food Manufacturing

NAICS 3119 · 97 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

  • Kentucky 61
  • Illinois 28
  • Florida 3
  • California 1
  • Iowa 1
  • Indiana 1
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 6 states cover 95 of 97 filings.

Where the work is

  • Erlanger, KY 61
  • Decatur, IL 26
  • Winter Haven, FL 3
  • Chicago, IL 2
  • Beech Grove, IN 1
  • Charlotte, NC 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 94 of 97 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vialto Partners LLP 97 filings · 87.2% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 97 of 97 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Enquirer

    48 cases

  2. The State Journal-Register

    22 cases

  3. The Springfield Journal-Register

    2 cases

  4. Tampa Bay Times

    2 cases

  5. Chattanooga Times Free Press

    1 cases

  6. Chicago Tribune

    1 cases
How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

  1. The employer's website

    80 cases

  2. Job search websites

    80 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    79 cases

  4. Trade or professional organizations

    1 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    2.5%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    28%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    34%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    36%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

History

Year by year since 2008

215 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 39.

  • 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 8 0 0
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 1 1 0
FY2015 5 0 0
FY2016 4 0 0
FY2017 17 0 0
FY2018 25 1 1
FY2019 1 0 0
FY2020 3 0 0
FY2021 9 0 0
FY2022 13 0 0
FY2023 21 0 0
FY2024 21 0 1
FY2025 31 0 5
FY2026 23 11 5

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 95. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22261-23374 2023-09-29 certified SAP S/4 HANA Support Sr. Analyst - Transport Management, KY $139,056
A-22230-08001 2023-08-29 certified Non-SAP Environment Manager, KY $135,000
A-22230-08158 2023-08-08 certified SAP Senior Developer, KY $135,000
A-22230-08381 2023-07-27 certified Senior Data Engineer, KY $150,000
A-22228-06600 2023-06-30 certified SAP Sr. Support Analyst - SD, KY $142,140
A-22220-01842 2023-06-22 certified SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect – Sales and Distribution, KY $164,640
A-22214-98694 2023-05-18 certified SAP S/4 HANA System Analyst - Transport Management, KY $135,000
A-22172-75723 2023-05-12 certified Senior Data Engineer, KY $128,760
The other 17
A-22129-52277 2023-04-24 certified SAP S/4HANA Analyst – Global Trade Services, KY $140,000
A-22159-68288 2023-04-10 certified SAP S/4 HANA Analyst, Finance, KY $138,780
A-22145-61217 2023-03-28 certified SAP S/4 HANA Analyst, Finance, KY $138,780
A-22133-55077 2023-02-24 certified ETL Developer, KY $130,998
A-22139-57776 2023-02-24 certified SAP S/4 HANA Analyst, Finance, KY $138,780
A-22108-42297 2023-02-09 certified Manager, Business Development and M&A - Ag Services & Oilseeds, IL $180,252
A-22080-28431 2023-02-08 certified Accounting Manager, IL $120,240
A-22084-30921 2023-01-23 certified IT Change Specialist 2, IL $65,268
A-22101-38719 2023-01-18 certified SAP Analyst – HCM/Successfactors, KY $146,388
A-22084-30650 2023-01-13 certified SAP S/4 HANA Analyst - Sales and Distribution, KY $144,216
A-22075-26389 2023-01-13 certified SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect, KY $172,000
A-22031-04980 2022-11-30 certified DRM Administrator (Hyperion Solutions), IL $100,920
A-21337-81125 2022-11-23 certified Senior Physical Chemist, IL $94,328
A-22012-97136 2022-09-22 certified SAP S/4 HANA Analyst, Finance, KY $133,260
A-21336-80475 2022-08-26 certified Senior Middleware Engineer, IL $118,464
A-21335-79940 2022-08-10 certified Controls Engineer, IL $73,860
A-21336-80603 2022-08-10 certified SAP Internal Controls Specialist, KY $154,500

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 77
  • Canada 7
  • Brazil 5
  • Ghana 1
  • Guatemala 1
  • Iran 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 74
  • Master's 16
  • Doctorate 4
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 83
  • L-1 10
  • H-4 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI 8
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 5
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 4
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 3

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 21
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 13
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 9
  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING 5
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 4
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 3

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 6 entries 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 #379 counts this page's cases only.

45 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 Software Developers, 29 of 97. 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 97 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 379. 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 86 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 KY. 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 21, 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.

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