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PERM sponsor, #2,591 of 70,985 by filings

CRYSTAL STEEL FABRICATORS, INC.

Main job
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters · 94% of its filings
Main worksite
Federalsburg, MD · 94% of its filings
Industry
Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing · NAICS 332312

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Too few cases for a rate

18 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

18

#2,591 of 70,985

Certified

18

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 18 decided

Median wage

$59,717

offered, per year

Median days

454

12 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 18 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 18 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 18 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 21, 2026

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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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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)
18 published
0 pending
$59,717 median, n=18
Prevailing wage requests
2 published
0 pending
2 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
4 published
0 pending
4 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; 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 CRYSTAL STEEL FABRICATORS, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-24193-188114 Senior Engineer $87,090 per year 2024-07-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23147-059190 Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter $59,717 per year 2023-05-26 · 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: 4 LCAs filed by CRYSTAL STEEL FABRICATORS, INC., 4 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

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

  • New employment 7a 3 · 75%
  • Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
  • Continuing 7b 1 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 4 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 3 · 75%
  • Level II 1 · 25%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 4 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 4 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 4 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 4. 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 CRYSTAL STEEL FABRICATORS, INC., as DOL's case-status service shows them.

  • H-400-23284-423494 H-2B application Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter 2023-10-11 · WITHDRAWN
  • P-400-23236-294675 H-2B wage request Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter 2023-08-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • H-400-23184-163826 H-2B application Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter 2023-07-03 · FULL CERTIFICATION
  • P-400-23085-878264 H-2B wage request Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter 2023-03-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • H-400-22184-330218 H-2B application Structural Metal Fabricator and Fitter 2022-07-03 · FULL CERTIFICATION

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.

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

    2 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 33% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

454 daysmiddle of 18 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 18 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 17 and 18 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
454 days

This one sits 10 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 2,591 of 70,985 by volume: 2,590 filed at least as many filings, and 68,394 filed no more.

Just above
Arcane Systems Inc. 18 filings
Just below
Iyaho Social Services Inc. 18 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 Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters, 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

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

SOC 51-2041.00 · 17 filings, 94% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 18 of 18 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

Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing

NAICS 332312 · 18 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

  • Maryland 17
  • Delaware 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 18 of 18 filings.

Where the work is

  • Federalsburg, MD 17
  • Delmar, DE 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 18 of 18 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 18 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 18 of 18 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Star Democrat

    17 cases

  2. Daily State News

    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

    1 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    1 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    1 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

    94%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    5.6%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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 2020

19 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 17.

  • 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
FY2020 1 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 0 0 0
FY2025 17 0 0
FY2026 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 1. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-19224-43127 2019-10-25 certified Project Manager - Steel Construction, DE $95,000

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 19 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 #2,591 counts this page's cases only.

36 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 Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters, 17 of 18. 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 18 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 2,591. 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 18 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 MD. 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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