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PERM sponsor, #1,533 of 70,985 by filings
EMP SERV, LLC "Pipestone"
- Main job
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers · 50% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Pipestone, MN · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Farm Management Services · NAICS 115116
Waiting on a case with EMP SERV, LLC "Pipestone"?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
25 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
28
#1,533 of 70,985
Certified
25
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 25 decided
Median wage
$66,498
offered, per year
Median days
473
7 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.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 28 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow EMP SERV, LLC "Pipestone"
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 28,615 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 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
- 28 published
- 0 pending
- $66,498 median, n=28
- Prevailing wage requests
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
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 EMP SERV, LLC "Pipestone", newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-22286-529010 Regional Production Training Specialist 2022-10-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22252-463985 Swine Lead 2022-09-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22252-463887 Process and Procedure Manager 2022-09-09 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22237-438099 Site Manager 2022-08-25 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
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.
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
473 daysmiddle of 25 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 27 and 29 filings.
- Their median wait
- 460 days
- This one
- 473 days
This one sits 13 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 1,533 of 70,985 by volume: 1,532 filed at least as many filings, and 69,452 filed no more.
- Just above
- Underwood Bros. Inc 28 filings
- Just below
- ZF Passive Safety Systems US Inc. 28 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #1,532 Underwood Bros. Inc 28 filings · 6 denied
- #1,534 ZF Passive Safety Systems US Inc. 28 filings · 1 denied
- #1,531 Centurion Products, LLC 28 filings · none denied
- #1,535 Ruprecht Foods LLC 28 filings · none denied
- #1,530 ECOM Consulting Inc 28 filings · 3 denied
- #1,536 INFODAT INTERNATIONAL INC 28 filings · 4 denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #775 EMP SERV, LLC 51 filings · 3 denied
- #1,593 Christensen Farms & Feedlots, Inc. 27 filings · none denied
- #1,301 Seaboard Foods LLC 32 filings · none denied
- #8,996 MICHAEL A. PARRAN 5 filings · 5 denied
- #8,477 Country View Family Farms, LLC 5 filings · 1 denied
- #399 Oak View Farms LLC 92 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
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
SOC 11-9013.00 · 14 filings, 50% of everything they file
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals 45-2093.0013
How this is counted
These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 27 of 28 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
Farm Management Services
NAICS 115116 · 26 filings
- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 5416112
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
- Minnesota 28
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 28 of 28 filings.
Where the work is
- Pipestone, MN 28
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 28 of 28 filings.
Who files for them
- Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 26 filings
- Global Immigration Associates, P.C. 2 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 28 of 28 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 24 cases
Star Tribune
- 4 cases
StarTribune
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 36%
60 to 89 days
- 21%
90 to 119 days
- 36%
120 to 149 days
- 7.1%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2024
28 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2025, busiest in FY2025 with 27.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 25 | 0 | 2 |
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 Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers, 14 of 28. 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 28 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 1,533. 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 25 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 MN. 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 19, 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.