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PERM sponsor, #1,046 of 70,985 by filings

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland Clinic Foundation sponsors green cards: it filed 13 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 21, 2026. Cleveland Clinic Foundation has 14 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
General Internal Medicine Physicians · 23% of its filings
Main worksite
Cleveland, OH · 74% of its filings
Industry
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · NAICS 622110

Waiting on a case with Cleveland Clinic Foundation?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 37 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

39

#1,046 of 70,985

Certified

37

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$220,000

offered, per year

Median days

460

6 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 54 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

14

of 54 tracked cases. The other 40 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 14, 2025, 20 months ago.

Where those 14 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1393%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
17%

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.

From DOL's live status of 54 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 54, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 26, 2026

Follow Cleveland Clinic Foundation

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.

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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. Every employer

    median of 32,344 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 80,263 cases, and would be decided around March 25, 2027 (between March 5, 2027 and May 4, 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)
39 published
14 pending
$220,000 median, n=39
Prevailing wage requests
53 published
33 pending
$66,685 median, n=51
H-1B labor condition applications
660 published
1 pending
$89,960 median, n=660

Its median H-1B wage is $89,960 across 660 LCAs, 59.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $220,000 across 39 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 14 pending PERM cases, 1 (7.1%) 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 Cleveland Clinic Foundation, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26296-319144 Registered Nurse (Neuro Medicine Unit) 2026-10-23 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26295-317716 Registered Nurse Hospital Resident (Neuro Medicine Unit) 2026-10-22 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26295-317702 Registered Nurse Hospital (Neuro Medicine Unit) 2026-10-22 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26293-312106 Registered Nurse Hospital Resident(Medicine/Chronic Disease) 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26293-312098 Registered Nurse Hospital (Medicine/Chronic Disease Unit) 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26296-319204 Registered Nurse Hospital (Lymphoma/Myeloma Unit) 2026-10-23 · IN PROCESS
  • I-200-26287-300526 Registered Nurse Hospital (Internal Medicine Unit) 2026-10-14 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26286-298038 rehabilitation medicine physician 2026-10-13 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26274-273169 RN Hospital Resident I (Internal Medicine Unit) 2026-10-01 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26272-267602 Registered Nurse Hospital (Internal Medicine Unit) 2026-09-29 · CERTIFIED

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: 660 LCAs filed by Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 610 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

662 positions for new employment, 381 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 662 · 36%
  • Change of employer 7e 381 · 21%
  • Continuing 7b 662 · 36%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 106 · 6%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 3 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 62 · 3%

Shares of the 1,843 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 62 · 12%
  • Level II 145 · 29%
  • Level III 54 · 11%
  • Level IV 239 · 48%

Shares of the 500 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; 110 of 610 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 617 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 633. 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 633 · E-3 (Australia) 27. 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

    100.0% of 37 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    13 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 93% of the 14,052 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    253 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,823 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    23% of 559 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 70% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    59% of 214 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 74% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

460 daysahead of 56%

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 37 and 41 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
460 days

This one sits 4 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 1,046 of 70,985 by volume: 1,045 filed at least as many filings, and 69,939 filed no more.

Just above
FactSet Research Systems Inc. 39 filings
Just below
Humetis Technologies, Inc. 39 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 General Internal Medicine Physicians, 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

General Internal Medicine Physicians

SOC 29-1216.00 · 9 filings, 23% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 22 of 39 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

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals

NAICS 622110, 6221 · 39 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 38
  • Nevada 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 2 states cover 39 of 39 filings.

Where the work is

  • Cleveland, OH 29
  • Avon, OH 2
  • Beachwood, OH 2
  • Lyndhurst, OH 2
  • Canton, OH 1
  • Euclid, OH 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 37 of 39 filings.

Who files for them

  1. UB Greensfelder LLP 16 filings
  2. Ulmer & Berne LLP 13 filings
  3. Gerard D'Souza, Esq 5 filings
  4. Martin Jolic and Associates, LLC 2 filings
  5. Nicola, Gudbranson Cooper, LLC 2 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 38 of 39 filings, 97% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Cleveland Plain Dealer

    22 cases

  2. The Plain Dealer

    8 cases

  3. Cleveland Clinic Plain Dealer

    1 cases

  4. Las Vegas Review Journal

    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

    32 cases

  2. Job search websites

    32 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    32 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

    13%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    50%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    19%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    19%

  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

485 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 45.

  • 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 20 2 0
FY2009 7 1 0
FY2010 38 0 1
FY2011 30 1 0
FY2012 41 0 0
FY2013 25 0 0
FY2014 25 0 0
FY2015 37 0 2
FY2016 43 0 1
FY2017 26 0 0
FY2018 45 0 0
FY2019 22 0 2
FY2020 22 2 2
FY2021 28 0 1
FY2022 13 0 0
FY2023 9 0 0
FY2024 8 0 2
FY2025 21 0 0
FY2026 8 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 216. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22264-25480 2023-08-22 certified EBI Database Developer II, OH $93,380
A-22224-05153 2023-08-01 certified Staff, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, OH $350,000
A-22216-00145 2023-06-15 certified Staff, Cardiovascular Imaging, OH $330,000
A-22199-89991 2023-05-18 certified Associate Staff, OH $202,500
A-22123-49494 2023-01-20 certified Associate Staff, Breast Imaging, OH $495,000
A-22144-60232 2023-01-20 certified Data Scientist II, OH $99,960
A-22049-13746 2022-11-10 certified Hospitalist, OH $200,000
A-22049-13741 2022-11-10 certified Hospitalist, OH $200,000
The other 17
A-22047-12183 2022-10-28 certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, OH $300,000
A-21352-88299 2022-08-22 certified Hospitalist, OH $185,000
A-21351-88253 2022-08-22 certified Hospitalist, OH $220,000
A-21351-88214 2022-08-22 certified Hospitalist, OH $212,500
A-21351-88247 2022-08-18 certified Hospitalist, OH $200,000
A-21351-88189 2022-08-18 certified Internal Medicine Physician, OH $205,000
A-21330-78187 2022-06-06 certified Hospitalist, OH $220,000
A-21271-51265 2022-04-04 certified Hospitalist, OH $220,000
A-21258-44582 2022-03-10 certified Architect, OH $110,000
A-21208-23111 2022-01-10 certified Diagnostic Medical Physicist, OH $145,000
A-21182-11089 2022-01-07 certified Associate Staff, Cardiovascular Medicine, OH $350,000
A-21200-19281 2022-01-05 certified Staff, Cardiovascular Imaging, OH $330,000
A-21180-09596 2021-12-10 certified Nurse Ethicist, OH $100,000
A-21077-63804 2021-10-06 certified Surgeon, WV $325,000
A-21116-78370 2021-09-03 certified Associate Staff, OH $200,000
A-21071-61423 2021-08-13 certified Hospitalist, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, OH $160,000
A-20210-81774 2021-06-22 certified Internal Medicine Physician, OH $200,000

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 89
  • China 20
  • Canada 14
  • Syria 13
  • Pakistan 12
  • United Kingdom 9

Worker's education

  • Other 168
  • Master's 39
  • Doctorate 5
  • Bachelor's 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 199
  • O-1 5
  • TPS 3
  • E-3 2
  • H-4 2
  • J-1 2

Schools

  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 8
  • AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY 3
  • DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY 3
  • DAYANAND MEDICAL COLLEGE 3
  • DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE 3
  • GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE 3

Fields of study

  • MEDICINE 160
  • BIOSTATISTICS 4
  • APPLIED STATISTICS 3
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 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 14 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 #1,046 counts this page's cases only.

55 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 General Internal Medicine Physicians, 9 of 39. 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 39 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 1,046. 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 37 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 26, 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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