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PERM sponsor, #281 of 70,985 by filings

Clemens Food Group LLC

Clemens Food Group LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 51 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on December 22, 2025.

Main job
Slaughterers and Meat Packers · 82% of its filings
Main worksite
Coldwater, MI · 98% of its filings
Industry
Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering · NAICS 311611

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Filings

132

#281 of 70,985

Certified

94

35 denied

Approval

72.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$38,480

offered, per year

Median days

464

2 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 108 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 108 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 108 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 25, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 2 DOL certified 32 of its cases
  2. September 25 DOL certified 16 of its cases

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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. Clemens Food Group LLC

    median of 51 decisions in the last 90 days

    287 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 80,225 cases, and would be decided around March 24, 2027 (between March 4, 2027 and May 3, 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)
132 published
0 pending
$38,480 median, n=132
Prevailing wage requests
17 published
0 pending
$36,150 median, n=17
H-1B labor condition applications
3 published
0 pending
3 wages, under the floor

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 Clemens Food Group LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26054-657350 Food Safety Supervisor (multiple openings) $80,101 per year 2026-02-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26040-628860 Food Safety Supervisor (multiple openings) $80,101 per year 2026-02-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26029-600853 Continuous Improvement Engineer $85,862 per year 2026-01-29 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26016-566602 Trimmers $37,627 per year 2026-01-16 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26014-560329 Operation Superintendent $137,051 per year 2026-01-14 · 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: 3 LCAs filed by Clemens Food Group LLC, 3 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

0 positions for new employment, 3 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 0 · 0%
  • Change of employer 7e 3 · 100%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 3 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 2 · 67%
  • Level II 0 · 0%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 1 · 33%

Shares of the 3 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 3 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 March 20, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3. 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

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by Clemens Food Group LLC, as DOL's case-status service shows them.

  • H-400-22187-333272 H-2B application Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2022-07-06 · DENIED
  • H-400-22187-333265 H-2B application Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2022-07-06 · FULL CERTIFICATION
  • P-400-22090-025433 H-2B wage request Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2022-03-31 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • H-400-22090-026052 H-2B application Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2022-03-31 · NOR ISSUED
  • H-400-22090-026049 H-2B application Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2022-03-31 · NOR ISSUED

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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

    72.9% of 129 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 2% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    51 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    2 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 33% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

72.9%ahead of 2%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

464 daysahead of 51%

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 107 and 179 filings.

Their median wait
470 days
This one
464 days

This one sits 6 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 281 of 70,985 by volume: 280 filed at least as many filings, and 70,704 filed no more.

Just above
Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc. 134 filings
Just below
Transunion LLC 131 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 Slaughterers and Meat Packers, 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

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

SOC 51-3023.00 · 108 filings, 82% of everything they file · 72.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 4 occupations with the most filings, 131 of 132 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

Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering

NAICS 311611 · 132 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

  • Michigan 130
  • Florida 1
  • Pennsylvania 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 3 states cover 132 of 132 filings.

Where the work is

  • Coldwater, MI 130
  • Coldwater, FL 1
  • Hatfield, PA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 132 of 132 filings.

Who files for them

  1. WORK FORCE LLC 95 filings · 62.4% approved
  2. Farmer Law PC 36 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 131 of 132 filings, 99% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Detroit Free Press

    35 cases

  2. COLDWATER DAILY REPORT

    14 cases

  3. COLDWATER DAILY REPORTER

    7 cases

  4. The Philadelphia Inquirer

    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.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    11%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    14%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    65%

  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 2014

203 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 76.

  • 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
FY2014 1 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 0 0 0
FY2017 0 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 3
FY2023 37 11 19
FY2024 53 22 1
FY2025 6 13 2
FY2026 35 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 70. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22139-57877 2023-07-24 denied Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22136-55694 2023-05-02 denied PACKERS, MI $35,880
A-22090-33735 2023-04-20 denied Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22090-33734 2023-04-20 denied Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22099-38561 2023-04-19 certified PACKERS, MI $35,880
A-22090-33746 2023-04-19 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22090-33744 2023-04-19 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22090-33742 2023-04-19 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
The other 17
A-22090-33738 2023-04-19 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22118-47434 2023-04-18 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22136-56000 2023-04-06 denied Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22153-65286 2023-03-27 certified PACKERS, MI $35,880
A-22166-72198 2023-03-22 denied Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-22160-68974 2023-03-14 certified Trimmers, MI $38,480
A-23062-08264 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07892 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07855 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07581 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07524 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07496 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23061-07490 2023-03-09 withdrawn Trimmers, FL $38,480
A-23060-07324 2023-03-09 withdrawn Trimmers, FL $38,480
A-23060-07316 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880
A-23060-07278 2023-03-09 withdrawn Trimmers, FL $38,480
A-23060-07267 2023-03-09 withdrawn Packers, FL $35,880

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

  • Venezuela 53
  • Haiti 12
  • Colombia 2
  • Ecuador 1
  • Nicaragua 1
  • United States Of America 1

Worker's education

  • High School 54
  • None 10
  • Bachelor's 4
  • Associate's 2

Visa held when filed

  • B-2 54
  • TPS 8
  • B-1 4
  • J-2 1
  • PAROLEE 1

Schools

  • INSTITUTO CENTRAL DE EDUCACION 3
  • UNIDAD EDUCATIVA LUIS ALFREDO COLOMINE 3
  • LA UNION FAIT LA FORCE 2
  • UNIDAD EDUCATIVA COLEGIO PARROQUIAL PADRE SEIJAS 2
  • UNIDAD EDUCATIVA JUAN JOSE DE MAYA. 2
  • UNIDAD EDUCATIVA TERESA CARREO 2

Fields of study

  • DEGREE IN BUSSINES ADMINISTRATION 1
  • DEGREE IN LAW 1
  • FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION 1
  • LAWYER 1
  • LEGAL SCIENCES 1
  • MARKETING AND ADVERTISING 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 Slaughterers and Meat Packers, 108 of 132. 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 132 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 281. 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 129 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 MI. 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 25, 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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