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PERM sponsor, #16,564 of 70,985 by filings
ERESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, INC.
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- When it'll likely be decided
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Too few cases for a rate
2 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
2
#16,564 of 70,985
Certified
2
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 2 decided
Median wage
$74,027
offered, per year
Median days
462
middle of 2 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 4 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
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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.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-100-25270-339574 ELECTRONIC CLINICAL OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (“eCOA”) PROJECT MANA filed 2025-09-27 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25208-202344 TEAM LEAD, SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEERING filed 2025-07-27 · CERTIFIED
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
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 30,289 decisions in the same 90 days
Only 1 of their cases was 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 80,222 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
- 2 published
- 0 pending
- 2 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 4 published
- 0 pending
- 4 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 84 published
- 0 pending
- $96,242 median, n=84
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, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; 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 ERESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-25083-797967 ELECTRONIC CLINICAL OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (“eCOAâ€) PROJECT MANA $143,520 per year 2025-03-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24295-419263 TEAM LEAD, SOFTWARE QUALITY ENGINEERING $120,120 per year 2024-10-20 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23276-406151 Biostatistician I $62,296 per year 2023-10-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23181-159666 Team Lead, Software Development Engineering $100,069 per year 2023-06-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23073-847394 SR. STATISTICAL PROGRAMMER 2023-03-14 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-203-26153-971696 Senior Director, eCOA Sales $147,222 per year 2026-06-02 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26147-954060 Manager, Software Quality Engineering (V&V) $124,155 per year 2026-05-27 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26132-899197 Lead Engineer, R&D Software Engineering $157,248 per year 2026-05-12 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26110-813140 Senior Data Scientist $140,150 per year 2026-04-20 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26014-560142 Clinical Data Programmer $73,154 per year 2026-01-14 · 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.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 84 LCAs filed by ERESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, INC., 76 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
9 positions for new employment, 12 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 9 · 12%
- Change of employer 7e 12 · 16%
- Continuing 7b 35 · 46%
- Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 4%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 19 · 25%
Shares of the 76 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 16 · 22%
- Level II 31 · 42%
- Level III 22 · 30%
- Level IV 5 · 7%
Shares of the 74 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; 2 of 76 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 27, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 75 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 82. 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
Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 82 · E-3 (Australia) 2. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
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
18 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 81% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
4.3% of 23 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 17% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
52% of 23 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 68% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
462 daysmiddle of 2 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 2 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 480 days
- This one
- 462 days
This one sits 18 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 16,564 of 70,985 by volume: 16,563 filed at least as many filings, and 54,421 filed no more.
- Just above
- CFA Institute 2 filings
- Just below
- INDEPENDENCIA ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC 2 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #16,563 CFA Institute 2 filings · none denied
- #16,565 INDEPENDENCIA ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC 2 filings · none denied
- #16,562 Learnet Academy, Inc. 2 filings · none denied
- #16,566 French International School of Oregon 2 filings · none denied
- #16,561 Hayabusa U.S.A. Inc. 2 filings · 1 denied
- #16,567 Digitek Software Inc. 2 filings · none denied
History
Year by year since 2014
33 PERM decisions from FY2014 to FY2026, busiest in FY2021 with 7.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 29. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-21231-33670 | 2022-02-09 | certified | Clinical Data Specialist, PA | $66,000 |
| A-21101-72759 | 2021-10-12 | certified | ORACLE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER, PA | $117,562 |
| A-21101-72764 | 2021-10-12 | certified | Data Delivery ENGINEER, MA | $96,242 |
| A-21101-72760 | 2021-09-09 | certified | Sr. TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER, MA | $100,000 |
| A-20100-41114 | 2021-09-01 | certified | Clinical Trial Project Manager, PA | $74,090 |
| A-21049-53599 | 2021-07-22 | certified | SENIOR ENGINEER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, NY | $75,000 |
| A-20179-70438 | 2021-03-11 | denied | ORACLE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER, PA | $125,000 |
| A-20179-70403 | 2021-03-03 | certified | Associate Biostatistician, NY | $65,499 |
The other 17
| A-20179-70427 | 2021-02-26 | certified | Senior Data Delivery Engineer, MA | $110,240 |
| A-19013-61822 | 2021-02-26 | certified | DEVOPS ENGINEER, MA | $91,874 |
| A-20061-25071 | 2020-07-27 | certified | Software Automation Analyst, NJ | $77,750 |
| A-19360-99847 | 2020-05-20 | certified | Clinical Data Specialist, MA | $111,946 |
| A-19253-55959 | 2020-02-04 | certified | Principal Software Engineer, MA | $122,000 |
| A-19097-89716 | 2019-07-16 | certified | Sr. Engineer, Software Development, MA | $123,000 |
| A-19013-61824 | 2019-07-12 | certified | VIRTUAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER, NJ | $129,000 |
| A-19013-61823 | 2019-06-05 | certified | Clinical Trial Data Technology Platform Manager, NJ | $157,186 |
| A-19013-61818 | 2019-06-03 | certified | ORACLE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER, MA | $103,501 |
| A-18315-39920 | 2019-03-15 | certified | Validation Analyst, MO | $79,000 |
| A-18105-63448 | 2018-08-07 | certified | Sr. Project Coordinator, MA | $79,186 |
| A-18123-70988 | 2018-08-02 | certified | SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, NJ | $123,594 |
| A-18090-58052 | 2018-07-19 | certified | Senior Software Automation Analyst, NJ | $78,083 |
| A-18076-53578 | 2018-07-18 | certified | PRODUCT SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER I, MA | $87,859 |
| A-18076-53583 | 2018-06-22 | certified | SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, NJ | $123,594 |
| A-16245-49076 | 2017-01-10 | certified | Product Senior Software Engineer I, MA | $102,000 |
| A-16106-98042 | 2016-08-18 | certified | Sr. Software Engineer II, PA | $131,747 |
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
- India 24
- Australia 1
- Germany 1
- Nepal 1
- Taiwan 1
- Vietnam 1
Worker's education
- Master's 20
- Bachelor's 9
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 26
- E-3 1
- F-1 1
- L-1 1
Schools
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 3
- OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 2
- ANDHRA UNIVERSITY 1
- ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY 1
- BIJU PATNAIK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1
- DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY 1
Fields of study
- COMPUTER SCIENCE 6
- COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 4
- COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
- ENGINEERING 2
- REGULATORY AFFAIRS 2
- BIOENGINEERING 1
Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- 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 2 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 16,564. 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 2 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. 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.