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PERM sponsor, #2,829 of 70,985 by filings

Ascendum Solutions LLC

Main job
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · 56% of its filings
Main worksite
Blue Ash, OH · 100% of its filings
Industry
Other Computer Related Services · NAICS 541519

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Too few cases for a rate

14 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

16

#2,829 of 70,985

Certified

14

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 14 decided

Median wage

$100,000

offered, per year

Median days

463

3 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 13 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 13 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 13 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 31,475 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,834 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
16 published
0 pending
$100,000 median, n=16
Prevailing wage requests
17 published
0 pending
$98,654 median, n=17
H-1B labor condition applications
184 published
0 pending
$102,742 median, n=184

Its median H-1B wage is $102,742 across 184 LCAs, 2.7% higher than its median PERM wage of $100,000 across 16 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; 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 Ascendum Solutions LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-24345-530967 Mobile Developer $77,438 per year 2024-12-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24198-199291 QA Engineer $74,277 per year 2024-07-16 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24184-167935 Senior Data Engineer $135,096 per year 2024-07-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24183-165137 Performance Engineer Level III $98,717 per year 2024-07-01 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-24130-976645 Software Engineer $77,438 per year 2024-05-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 184 LCAs filed by Ascendum Solutions LLC, 180 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

39 positions for new employment, 69 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 39 · 18%
  • Change of employer 7e 69 · 32%
  • Continuing 7b 29 · 13%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 55 · 25%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 24 · 11%

Shares of the 216 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 17 · 11%
  • Level II 29 · 18%
  • Level III 47 · 30%
  • Level IV 65 · 41%

Shares of the 158 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; 22 of 180 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 April 13, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 25 of 172 LCAs, and a willful violator on 1 of 184. 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.

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

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

    23 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 85% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 26 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 42% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    100.0% of 29 USCIS decisions

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

Also on its record

  • It declared itself a willful violator on 1 LCA.
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

463 daysmiddle of 14 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 14 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 16 and 17 filings.

Their median wait
474 days
This one
463 days

This one sits 11 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 2,829 of 70,985 by volume: 2,828 filed at least as many filings, and 68,156 filed no more.

Just above
Delta Dental Of California 16 filings
Just below
Gestamp Chattanooga, LLC 16 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

SOC 15-1253.00 · 9 filings, 56% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 5 occupations with the most filings, 15 of 16 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 Computer Related Services

NAICS 541519 · 16 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

  • Ohio 16
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 16 of 16 filings.

Where the work is

  • Blue Ash, OH 16
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 16 of 16 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vora Corporate Services LLC 16 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 16 of 16 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Cincinnati Enquirer

    13 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. Campus placement offices

    13 cases

  2. Employee referral programs

    13 cases

  3. Job search websites

    13 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

    15%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    46%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    7.7%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    31%

  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 2010

59 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 8.

  • 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
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 3 0 0
FY2013 0 0 2
FY2014 3 0 0
FY2015 4 0 2
FY2016 7 0 0
FY2017 0 0 0
FY2018 1 0 0
FY2019 0 2 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 4 0 1
FY2022 2 0 2
FY2023 5 1 2
FY2024 3 0 1
FY2025 3 0 1
FY2026 8 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 27. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22229-07225 2023-08-29 certified Senior Software Test Engineer, OH $109,000
A-22108-42256 2023-07-06 certified Mobile Developer, OH $92,747
A-22223-04307 2023-06-06 certified Director of Agile Program Management, OH $140,000
A-22283-36279 2023-05-01 withdrawn Data Scientist, OH $96,408
A-21277-53775 2023-04-17 denied Java Developer, OH $130,998
A-22084-30704 2023-03-07 certified QA Lead, OH $124,800
A-22006-94664 2022-12-23 withdrawn Software Development Engineer, OH $108,680
A-22007-95122 2022-12-21 certified Automation Lead, OH $105,040
The other 17
A-22081-29060 2022-09-27 withdrawn Software Developer, OH $89,500
A-21348-85943 2022-08-16 certified Android Developer, OH $124,800
A-22081-28987 2022-06-03 withdrawn Software Developer, OH $89,500
A-21313-70375 2022-06-01 certified Quality Engineer – Automation, OH $100,152
A-20226-88112 2021-07-06 certified Performance Engineer, OH $100,339
A-20310-17350 2021-06-21 certified QA Lead, OH $115,003
A-20311-17801 2021-05-21 withdrawn Software Engineer, OH $110,406
A-20227-88389 2021-03-30 certified Software Programmer, OH $63,294
A-20226-88099 2021-03-24 certified Quality Engineering Technical Lead, OH $100,339
A-19140-07242 2019-08-01 denied Software Programmer, KY $60,549
A-18180-92851 2019-01-16 denied QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD, OH $92,810
A-17132-37927 2017-12-04 certified Technology Consultant, OH $84,989
A-15282-26734 2016-03-15 certified Software Quality Engineer, OH $96,554
A-15282-26751 2016-03-15 certified Business Systems Analyst, OH $96,554
A-15208-02439 2016-02-02 certified Director of Digital and eCommerce, OH $264,992
A-14237-01179 2015-12-15 certified Software Quality Engineer, OH $95,181
A-15138-77197 2015-12-07 certified Computer Software Engineer, OH $68,806

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 24
  • Mexico 1
  • Nepal 1
  • Netherlands 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 17
  • Bachelor's 10

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 24
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 3
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 2
  • MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE 2
  • ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY 1
  • BANGALORE UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 7
  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2
  • BIOTECHNOLOGY 1

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 Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, 9 of 16. 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 16 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 2,829. 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 14 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 OH. 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 22, 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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