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PERM sponsor, #15,837 of 70,985 by filings
Cottey College
- Main job
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary · 33% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Nevada, MO · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with Cottey College?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
1 decided filing: 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
3
#15,837 of 70,985
Certified
1
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 1 decided
Median wage
$59,058
offered, per year
Median days
370
middle of 1 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 2 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow Cottey College
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.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 29,912 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 80,261 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)
- 3 published
- 0 pending
- 3 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 11 published
- 0 pending
- $55,710 median, n=11
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 Cottey College, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-22314-580134 Assistant Professor of Biology 2022-11-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22313-577148 Assistant Professor of Education 2022-11-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22249-456588 Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies 2022-09-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22019-838840 Assistant Professor of Education 2022-01-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22019-838635 Assistant Professor of Biology 2022-01-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-24061-765258 Assistant Professor of Education $59,058 per year 2024-03-01 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-24060-761065 Assistant Professor of Biology $59,160 per year 2024-02-29 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-24024-663564 Assistant Professor of Criminology $54,000 per year 2024-01-24 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22273-504882 Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies $54,000 per year 2022-09-30 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-22234-430905 Instructional Technology Specialist $55,710 per year 2022-08-22 · CERTIFIED
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.
Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 100% of its coded PERM filings name NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and colleges hire H-1B workers outside the lottery (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(5)(A)). Whether this employer qualifies is USCIS's call.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 11 LCAs filed by Cottey College, 11 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
5 positions for new employment, 0 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 5 · 45%
- Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
- Continuing 7b 5 · 45%
- Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 9%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%
Shares of the 11 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 7 · 70%
- Level II 3 · 30%
- Level III 0 · 0%
- Level IV 0 · 0%
Shares of the 10 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; 1 of 11 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 1, 2024. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 9 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 11. 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.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
370 daysmiddle of 1 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 3 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 392 days
- This one
- 370 days
This one sits 22 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 15,837 of 70,985 by volume: 15,836 filed at least as many filings, and 55,148 filed no more.
- Just above
- Revel IT, Inc. 3 filings
- Just below
- Familia Dental Big Spring PLLC 3 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #15,836 Revel IT, Inc. 3 filings · none denied
- #15,838 Familia Dental Big Spring PLLC 3 filings · none denied
- #15,835 Coty US LLC 3 filings · none denied
- #15,839 Twin Lakes Vault, Inc. 3 filings · none denied
- #15,834 SmileDirectClub, LLC 3 filings · none denied
- #15,840 A Parent’s Paradise, LLC 3 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #5,987 American University 8 filings · none denied
- #7,430 California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt 6 filings · 1 denied
- #3,559 California State University, Chico 13 filings · none denied
- #336 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 109 filings · 2 denied
- #6,883 FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY 7 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
Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1053.00 · 1 filings, 33% of everything they file
How this is counted
These are the occupation with the most filings, 1 of 3 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
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
NAICS 611310 · 3 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
- Missouri 3
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 3 of 3 filings.
Where the work is
- Nevada, MO 3
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 3 of 3 filings.
Who files for them
- Roberta F. Farrell, LLC 3 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 3 of 3 filings, 100% of the total.
History
Year by year since 2010
11 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2024, busiest in FY2024 with 3.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 4. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-19323-85277 | 2020-05-01 | certified | Assistant Professor of Political Science/International Relations, MO | $55,177 |
| A-17202-66909 | 2018-01-16 | certified | Assistant Professor of Mathematics, MO | $53,000 |
| A-17048-04227 | 2017-05-01 | certified | Coordinator of Spiritual Life and Campus Diversity, MO | $46,051 |
| A-16204-35278 | 2017-04-04 | denied | Assistant Professor of International Relations, MO | $52,000 |
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 Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary, 1 of 3. 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 3 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 15,837. 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 1 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 MO. 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 20, 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.