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PERM sponsor, #5,152 of 70,985 by filings
CNJ, Inc.
CNJ, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 1 PERM case in the last 12 months, the newest on January 23, 2026. CNJ, Inc. has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- FirstLine Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers · 22% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Auburn, AL · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · NAICS 3363
Waiting on a case with CNJ, Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
9 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
9
#5,152 of 70,985
Certified
9
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 9 decided
Median wage
$65,000
offered, per year
Median days
399
middle of 9 decided
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
1
of 8 tracked cases. The other 7 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed January 23, 2026, 8 months ago.
Where those 1 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 1100%
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.
Follow CNJ, Inc.
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-200-26023-584983 Maintenance Manager filed 2026-01-23 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-100-23167-120851 Accounting Specialist filed 2023-06-16 · WITHDRAWN
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
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 80,916 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)
- 9 published
- 1 pending
- 9 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 8 published
- 0 pending
- 8 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
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 CNJ, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26147-950516 Quality Control Specialist 2026-05-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25195-172895 Maintenance Manager $85,322 per year 2025-07-14 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24317-470452 Maintenance Specialist $57,886 per year 2024-11-12 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24313-464555 Maintenance Specialist $57,886 per year 2024-11-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24229-273771 Cut Line Production Supervisor $66,373 per year 2024-08-16 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
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.
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
1 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 22% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
399 daysmiddle of 9 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 9 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 477 days
- This one
- 399 days
This one sits 78 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 5,152 of 70,985 by volume: 5,151 filed at least as many filings, and 65,833 filed no more.
- Just above
- Atosa USA, Inc. 9 filings
- Just below
- Bosphorus Enterprises, Inc. 9 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #5,151 Atosa USA, Inc. 9 filings · none denied
- #5,153 Bosphorus Enterprises, Inc. 9 filings · 2 denied
- #5,150 Chip's Landscaping Inc. 9 filings · none denied
- #5,154 DSFederal, Inc. 9 filings · none denied
- #5,149 Aquatic Group 9 filings · none denied
- #5,155 CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP 9 filings · 1 denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for FirstLine Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #13,192 Daumar Industries Corporation 3 filings · none denied
- #6,200 Shinhwa Auto USA Corp. 7 filings · 2 denied
- #10,716 Tecnocap Acquisition Company and subsidiary 4 filings · none denied
- #8,005 Trico Peanut, LLC 6 filings · none denied
- #18,924 A.S. Composite LLC 2 filings · none denied
- #10,764 BEST CUTTING DIE COMPANY 4 filings · none 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
FirstLine Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
SOC 51-1011.00 · 2 filings, 22% of everything they file
- Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians 17-3027.002
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 49-1011.001
- Mechanical Engineers 17-2141.001
- Mechatronics Engineers 17-2199.051
- Validation Engineers 17-2112.021
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 8 of 9 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
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing
NAICS 3363 · 9 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
- Alabama 9
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 9 of 9 filings.
Where the work is
- Auburn, AL 9
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 9 of 9 filings.
Who files for them
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP 9 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 9 of 9 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 6 cases
Opelika-Auburn News
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
- 2 cases
Job search websites
- 2 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 2 cases
Radio or TV ads
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 100%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 0.0%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2012
39 PERM decisions from FY2012 to FY2026, busiest in FY2012 with 4.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2012 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 16. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-21300-64507 | 2022-09-16 | certified | Maintenance Technician, AL | $52,000 |
| A-21185-12130 | 2022-04-20 | certified | Purchasing Specialist, AL | $47,341 |
| A-21139-88632 | 2022-02-24 | certified | Maintenance Supervisor - Disc, AL | $63,898 |
| A-20140-55934 | 2020-11-13 | certified | Maintenance Technician, AL | $48,000 |
| A-19340-92067 | 2020-10-02 | certified | Maintenance Supervisor, AL | $62,500 |
| A-19340-91971 | 2020-10-02 | certified | Forklift Maintenance Supervisor, AL | $68,500 |
| A-20052-21967 | 2020-07-02 | certified | Mechanical Engineer, AL | $66,061 |
| A-19144-09920 | 2019-07-10 | certified | QC Engineer, AL | $58,802 |
The other 8
| A-19143-09432 | 2019-07-10 | certified | Electrical Engineer, AL | $70,000 |
| A-17067-10663 | 2017-05-18 | certified | SR. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN, AL | $55,000 |
| A-16281-60128 | 2017-05-11 | certified | Management Analyst, AL | $64,376 |
| A-16172-23808 | 2017-01-23 | certified | Sr. Mechanical Engineer, AL | $71,822 |
| A-16217-39163 | 2016-11-15 | certified | Production Engineer, AL | $66,600 |
| A-15287-28657 | 2016-04-11 | certified | Senior Quality Engineer, AL | $67,000 |
| A-15245-13917 | 2016-02-25 | certified | Quality Assurance Specialist, AL | $46,592 |
| A-15135-76744 | 2015-12-04 | certified | Engineering Technician, AL | $43,659 |
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
- South Korea 16
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 9
- Associate's 3
- None 2
- High School 1
- Master's 1
Visa held when filed
- E-2 10
- F-1 5
- L-1 1
Schools
- ANDREWS UNIVERSITY 1
- DONG-A UNIVERSITY 1
- DONG-EUI UNIVERSITY 1
- EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 1
- EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
- KEIMYUNG UNIVERSITY 1
Fields of study
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 3
- AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 1
- AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY 1
- AVIATION WITH A CONCENTRATION IN MAINTENANCE 1
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT 1
- BUSINESS IN MANAGEMENT 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 FirstLine Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers, 2 of 9. 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 9 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 5,152. 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 9 decided cases
- That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
- 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 AL. 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.