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PERM sponsor, #686 of 70,985 by filings

Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.

Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 39% of its filings
Main worksite
Auburn Hills, MI · 84% of its filings
Industry
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · NAICS 3363

Waiting on a case with Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 53 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 6.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

57

#686 of 70,985

Certified

53

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$135,606

offered, per year

Median days

452

14 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 48 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 48 tracked cases. The other 47 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed November 14, 2024, 23 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
1100%

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 48 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 48, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

Follow Continental Automotive Systems, 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.

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Its newest filings

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

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 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,340 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)
57 published
1 pending
$135,606 median, n=57
Prevailing wage requests
79 published
0 pending
$117,832 median, n=71
H-1B labor condition applications
273 published
0 pending
$115,000 median, n=273

Its median H-1B wage is $115,000 across 273 LCAs, 15.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $135,606 across 57 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 Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-25309-376314 Sr Systems Engineer - Kbgfjg241952-3 $131,216 per year 2025-11-05 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25241-275352 Sr Staff Test Engineer - KBGFJG241928-3 $128,528 per year 2025-08-29 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25212-211786 Sr Staff Software Engineer - KBGFJG242065-7 $162,831 per year 2025-07-31 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25178-133760 Sr RF/Wireless Engineer - KBGFJG242075-3 $116,790 per year 2025-06-27 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-25176-126443 Project Engineer - KBGFJG242012-2 $118,248 per year 2025-06-25 · 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: 273 LCAs filed by Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., 252 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

64 positions for new employment, 32 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 64 · 25%
  • Change of employer 7e 32 · 13%
  • Continuing 7b 121 · 48%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 32 · 13%

Shares of the 252 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 14 · 6%
  • Level II 113 · 48%
  • Level III 14 · 6%
  • Level IV 95 · 40%

Shares of the 236 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; 16 of 252 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 November 5, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 242 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 272. 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 272 · H-1B1 (Chile) 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

    100.0% of 53 decided PERM cases

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

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

    20 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 83% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.0% of 26 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 4% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    77% of 26 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 90% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.2% of 53 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 23% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

452 daysahead of 64%

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 53 and 60 filings.

Their median wait
467 days
This one
452 days

This one sits 15 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 686 of 70,985 by volume: 685 filed at least as many filings, and 70,299 filed no more.

Just above
PPD Development, L.P. 57 filings
Just below
Fellowship Village, Inc. 57 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 · 22 filings, 39% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 40 of 57 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 · 57 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 49
  • Illinois 5
  • North Carolina 2
  • 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 4 states cover 57 of 57 filings.

Where the work is

  • Auburn Hills, MI 48
  • Deer Park, IL 5
  • Morganton, NC 2
  • Allentown, PA 1
  • Grand Blanc, MI 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 57 of 57 filings.

Who files for them

  1. EY Law LLP 41 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Garfinkel Immigration Law Firm 16 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 57 of 57 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Detroit Free Press

    38 cases

  2. Chicago Tribune

    5 cases

  3. Asheville Citizen Times

    2 cases

  4. Sunday Free Press

    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. Job search websites

    46 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    46 cases

  3. Campus placement offices

    41 cases

  4. Employee referral programs

    3 cases

  5. On-campus recruiting

    2 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

    24%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    39%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    15%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    22%

  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 2011

307 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 40.

  • 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
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 6 0 0
FY2013 5 0 0
FY2014 8 0 1
FY2015 18 0 0
FY2016 31 0 1
FY2017 28 0 1
FY2018 40 0 0
FY2019 21 0 0
FY2020 28 0 0
FY2021 27 0 0
FY2022 19 0 0
FY2023 12 0 1
FY2024 11 0 1
FY2025 16 0 3
FY2026 26 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 209. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22278-33835 2023-09-22 certified Project Engineer, MI $85,922
A-22259-22743 2023-09-08 certified Sr. Sales Analyst – Hydraulic Brakes Systems, MI $114,026
A-22213-98134 2023-06-06 certified Technical Project Leader, MI $137,150
A-22213-97896 2023-06-06 certified Senior Software Engineer, MI $104,160
A-22206-94073 2023-05-18 certified Project Team Leader, MI $110,700
A-22131-53776 2023-04-07 certified Project Engineer, MI $86,520
A-22154-65627 2023-03-22 certified Senior Staff Test Engineer, MI $117,000
A-22126-51701 2023-02-15 certified Senior Mechanical Engineer, MI $104,468
The other 17
A-22077-27592 2023-01-18 certified Electronic Brake System - Quality Assurance Supervisor, NC $125,174
A-22069-22118 2023-01-11 certified Sr. Systems Engineer, MI $99,323
A-22059-17120 2023-01-11 certified Sr. Electrical Engineer – Electronics Engineering, MI $99,320
A-21298-63029 2022-12-15 withdrawn Lead Staff Quality Engineer – Vehicle Dynamics, NC $112,211
A-21362-91489 2022-10-21 certified Systems Engineer, MI $84,032
A-21272-51900 2022-09-19 certified Engineering Supervisor – Electronic Parking Brake System Development, MI $124,578
A-21235-34904 2022-06-08 certified Systems Engineer - Audio Systems, IL $84,210
A-21251-41274 2022-06-08 certified Senior Software Engineer - Software Development, MI $98,441
A-21210-24057 2022-06-02 certified Sr. Project Engineer (Resident Engineer), MI $108,605
A-21301-65043 2022-05-26 certified Quality Engineer, Audits and Compliance, VA $94,952
A-21301-65072 2022-05-26 certified Senior Systems Engineer - Algorithm Development, MI $107,100
A-21215-26297 2022-04-07 certified Sr. IT Systems Analyst - Storage & Backup, MI $111,859
A-21209-23537 2022-03-21 certified Sr. Staff Systems Engineer – V2X and Algorithms, MI $127,067
A-21218-28208 2022-02-24 certified Technical Project Lead – Infotainment Components, MI $120,173
A-21181-10739 2022-02-18 certified Project Team Supervisor - Customer Technical Support, MI $120,510
A-21188-13212 2022-02-18 certified Sr. Staff Hardware Engineer - Electrical Hardware Design, MI $124,500
A-21182-11155 2022-02-18 certified Sr. Staff Systems Engineer - System Architecture, MI $125,460

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 87
  • Mexico 58
  • Canada 11
  • Brazil 10
  • China 10
  • Germany 5

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 133
  • Master's 74
  • Doctorate 1
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 121
  • L-1 56
  • TN 27
  • E-2 4
  • H-4 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF PUNE 6
  • VISVESWARAIAH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM 6
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 5
  • CENTRO DE ENSENANZA TECNICA INDUSTRIAL 4
  • OAKLAND UNIVERSITY 4
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 59
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 34
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 19
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 12
  • ENGINEERING 8
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 6

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 Developers, 22 of 57. 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 57 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 686. 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 53 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 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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