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DC Organic Farm LLC

DC Organic Farm LLC sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 11, 2026. DC Organic Farm LLC has 18 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Cooks, Restaurant · 53% of its filings
Main worksite
Clarksburg, MD · 100% of its filings
Industry
Poultry Hatcheries · NAICS 112340

Waiting on a case with DC Organic Farm LLC?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 35 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 18.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

36

#1,136 of 70,985

Certified

33

2 denied

Approval

94.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$41,059

offered, per year

Median days

475

9 slower 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 65 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

18

of 65 tracked cases. The other 47 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 28, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 18 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
18100%

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 65 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 65, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

Follow DC Organic Farm LLC

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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 31,712 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 79,711 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
36 published
18 pending
$41,059 median, n=36
Prevailing wage requests
15 published
4 pending
$49,712 median, n=15
H-1B labor condition applications
3 published
0 pending
3 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 DC Organic Farm LLC, 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: 3 LCAs filed by DC Organic Farm LLC, 3 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 · 100%
  • Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 3 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 2 · 67%
  • Level II 1 · 33%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 3 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 3 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 May 8, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 3 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 3. 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

    94.3% of 35 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 8% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    19 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 14,032 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    3 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 44% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

94.3%ahead of 8%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

475 daysahead of 36%

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 35 and 38 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
475 days

This one sits 7 days behind 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 1,136 of 70,985 by volume: 1,135 filed at least as many filings, and 69,849 filed no more.

Just above
Risamsoft Inc. 36 filings
Just below
EMONICS LLC 36 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 Cooks, Restaurant, 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

Cooks, Restaurant

SOC 35-2014.00 · 19 filings, 53% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 36 of 36 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

Poultry Hatcheries

NAICS 112340 · 36 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 36
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 36 of 36 filings.

Where the work is

  • Clarksburg, MD 36
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 36 of 36 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Puyang & Wu, LLC 25 filings
  2. David Z. Lu & Associates 7 filings
  3. Wasserman Mancini and Chang PC 4 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 36 of 36 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Baltimore Sun

    35 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.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    5.7%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    71%

  7. Over 180 days

    11%
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 2019

64 PERM decisions from FY2019 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 25.

  • 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
FY2019 0 6 0
FY2020 2 7 1
FY2021 4 1 4
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 1 0 0
FY2025 9 0 1
FY2026 23 2 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 28. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21292-60254 2022-09-14 certified Head Butcher, MD $46,675
A-21335-79981 2022-07-20 certified Head Butcher, MD $46,675
A-21287-58746 2022-05-18 certified Head Butcher, MD $46,675
A-20168-66257 2021-07-13 certified FARM WORKER, LIVESTOCK FARM, MD $44,866
A-20212-83031 2021-06-22 certified BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,448
A-20176-69131 2021-06-08 denied MANAGER, LIVESTOCK FARM, MD $44,866
A-20168-66077 2021-04-28 withdrawn BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,448
A-20217-84658 2021-02-19 certified LIVESTOCK FARMER MANAGER, MD $44,866
The other 17
A-20203-78901 2020-11-18 withdrawn LIVESTOCK FARM WORKER, MD $44,866
A-20174-68220 2020-11-18 withdrawn MANAGER, LIVESTOCK FARM, MD $44,866
A-20164-64801 2020-11-18 withdrawn BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,448
A-19333-89097 2020-11-18 certified BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,822
A-19333-89092 2020-09-25 certified BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,822
A-19336-89348 2020-07-29 withdrawn LIVESTOCK FARM MANAGER, MD $40,456
A-19217-39833 2020-07-09 denied LIVESTOCK FARMER MANAGER, MD $40,456
A-19213-38649 2020-07-09 denied LIVESTOCK FARMER MANAGER, MD $40,456
A-19212-37980 2020-07-09 denied FARMER, FARM WORKER, LIVESTOCK, MD $40,456
A-19212-37839 2020-07-09 denied LIVESTOCK FARM WORKER FARMER, MD $40,456
A-19212-37816 2020-06-29 denied LIVESTOCK FARM WORKER, MD $40,456
A-19214-39137 2020-03-11 certified LIVESTOCK FARMER MANAGER, MD $40,456
A-19218-40492 2019-10-23 denied BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,822
A-19214-39148 2019-10-23 denied BUTCHER/MEAT CUTTER, MD $45,822
A-18288-28980 2019-08-06 denied MANAGER, LIVESTOCK FARMER, MD $40,456
A-18283-27288 2019-08-06 denied MANAGER, LIVESTOCK FARMER, MD $40,456
A-18288-29087 2019-07-02 denied MANAGER, LIVESTOCK FARMER, MD $40,456

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

  • China 28

Worker's education

  • High School 18
  • Associate's 6
  • None 3
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 7
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • SI JIU HIGH SCHOOL 8
  • TAICHENG GUANGDA MIDDLE SCHOOL 7
  • GUANGDONG NANHUA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 4
  • GUANGDONG NANHUA VOCATION SCHOOL 1
  • GUANGDONG.NANHUA.VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 1
  • HEBEI UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • HIGH SCHOOL 10
  • BUSINESS 6
  • MIDDLE SCHOOL 2
  • FINANCE 1
  • GENERAL 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 Cooks, Restaurant, 19 of 36. 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 36 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 1,136. 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 35 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 23, 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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