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PERM sponsor, #161 of 70,985 by filings

Dallas Independent School District

Dallas Independent School District sponsors green cards: it filed 45 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on May 9, 2026. Dallas Independent School District has 45 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education · 54% of its filings
Main worksite
Dallas, TX · 100% of its filings
Industry
Elementary and Secondary Schools · NAICS 611110

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Filings

234

#161 of 70,985

Certified

201

32 denied

Approval

86.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$65,000

offered, per year

Median days

451

15 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 249 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

45

of 249 tracked cases. The other 204 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 27, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 45 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
45100%

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.

From DOL's live status of 249 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 249, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 26, 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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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 32,521 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 80,119 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)
234 published
45 pending
$65,000 median, n=234
Prevailing wage requests
38 published
0 pending
$58,380 median, n=38
H-1B labor condition applications
1,831 published
0 pending
$65,000 median, n=1,831

Its median H-1B wage ($65,000 across 1,831 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($65,000 across 234 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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 Dallas Independent School District, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

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: 1,831 LCAs filed by Dallas Independent School District, 1,808 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

558 positions for new employment, 15 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 558 · 31%
  • Change of employer 7e 15 · 1%
  • Continuing 7b 1,223 · 68%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 14 · 1%

Shares of the 1,808 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 410 · 23%
  • Level II 1,380 · 76%
  • Level III 18 · 1%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 1,808 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 1,808 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 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,724 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,831. 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    86.3% of 233 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 5% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    45 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,057 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    557 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,823 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    0.3% of 628 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 8% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    0.3% of 628 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 8% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.1% of 632 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

86.3%ahead of 5%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

451 daysahead of 65%

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 179 and 364 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
451 days

This one sits 11 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 161 of 70,985 by volume: 160 filed at least as many filings, and 70,824 filed no more.

Just above
Mastech Digital Technologies, Inc. 234 filings
Just below
SDC Restaurants LLC 229 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education, 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

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

SOC 25-2021.00 · 126 filings, 54% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 187 of 234 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

Elementary and Secondary Schools

NAICS 611110 · 234 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

  • Texas 234
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 234 of 234 filings.

Where the work is

  • Dallas, TX 234
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 234 of 234 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ramirez & Associates, .PC. 234 filings · 86.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 234 of 234 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dallas Morning News

    202 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. Campus placement offices

    202 cases

  2. The employer's website

    202 cases

  3. Job fairs

    202 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

    21%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    28%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    28%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.5%
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

1,029 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2015 with 168.

  • 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 4 1 0
FY2009 14 0 0
FY2010 65 2 0
FY2011 47 1 0
FY2012 24 91 2
FY2013 13 19 2
FY2014 22 54 30
FY2015 89 70 9
FY2016 38 3 1
FY2017 42 9 0
FY2018 18 3 0
FY2019 6 1 0
FY2020 32 0 0
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 51 0 0
FY2023 4 27 0
FY2024 44 32 1
FY2025 104 0 0
FY2026 53 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 236. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22165-71649 2023-09-29 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22167-73193 2023-09-27 denied High School Math Teacher, TX $56,500
A-22167-73183 2023-09-27 denied High School Math Teacher, TX $56,500
A-22167-73153 2023-09-27 denied High School Math Teacher, TX $56,500
A-22166-72657 2023-09-27 denied High School Math Teacher, TX $56,500
A-22166-72627 2023-09-27 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22166-72615 2023-09-27 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22166-72600 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
The other 17
A-22166-72547 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22166-72508 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22166-72450 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22166-72298 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71858 2023-09-26 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22263-24818 2023-09-25 denied High School Science Teacher, TX $60,000
A-22165-71838 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71816 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71778 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71755 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71720 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71668 2023-09-25 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71623 2023-09-22 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71503 2023-09-22 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71433 2023-09-22 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22165-71392 2023-09-21 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500
A-22164-70944 2023-09-21 denied Elementary Bilingual Teacher, TX $60,500

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

  • Mexico 120
  • Philippines 16
  • Venezuela 16
  • Colombia 14
  • Spain 13
  • India 10

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 192
  • Master's 41
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 236

Schools

  • INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY 13
  • UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON 10
  • UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO 8
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY 7
  • UNIVERSIDAD REGIOMONTANA 6
  • MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY 5

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 23
  • EDUCATION 15
  • MATHEMATICS 12
  • PSYCHOLOGY 8
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 6
  • ARCHITECTURE 5

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 18 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 #161 counts this page's cases only.

33 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 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education, 126 of 234. 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 234 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 161. 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 233 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 TX. 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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