All sponsors · #283 of 71,512 by volume
Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc.
134 PERM filings in DOL's current disclosure window, 120 certified and 0 denied. Name as DOL prints it, which is the legal entity on the form.
Filings
134
#283 of 71,512
Certified
120
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
—
not on file
Median days
486
21 slower than the field
Waiting on a decision
33
of 140 tracked cases. The other 107 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed November 13, 2025, 9 months ago.
Where those 33 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 33100%
A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.
A queue position is national and first in, first out, so none of this changes what any one case waits. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.
Latest filings, live from DOL
Newer than DOL's published files, so the wage and law firm aren't known yet. Each case links to its live status.
- G-200-26181-068075 Assistant Manager filed 2026-06-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25323-420890 Churrasqueiro II filed 2025-11-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25323-420882 Churrasqueiro II filed 2025-11-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25321-413906 Assistant Manager filed 2025-11-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25321-413902 Assistant Manager filed 2025-11-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25321-413897 Assistant Manager filed 2025-11-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25318-408335 Churrasqueiro II filed 2025-11-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-200-25318-408332 Churrasqueiro II filed 2025-11-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
Approval rate
100.0%ahead of 33%, level with 895 more
Median days to decision
486 daysahead of 20%
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 actually turns on.
What the jobs are
SOC 35-1011.00 · 105 filings, 78% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Chefs and Head Cooks 35-101116
- Food Service Managers 11-905111
These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 132 of 134 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.
Where the jobs are
- Texas 24
- Pennsylvania 23
- California 20
- New Jersey 17
- Georgia 14
- Illinois 13
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 6 states cover 111 of 134 filings.
Who files for them
- Baker & Hostetler LLP 134 filings · 100.0% approved
The law firm named on the application. 134 of 134 filings, 100% of the total.
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest this one filed between 107 and 179 filings. Their median wait is 470 days, and this one sits 16 days behind that. No approval rate is given for the band. 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 283 of 71,512 by volume: 282 filed at least as many filings, and 71,229 filed no more.
- Just above
- Discover Products Inc. 134 filings
- Just below
- Clemens Food Group LLC 132 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
The sponsors ranked either side of this one, which is the same as saying they file about as many PERM cases a year. Worksite state isn't carried per employer in this data, so these are volume peers rather than neighbours; filings by state are on the state map.
What these numbers don't say
- 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 a company with four thousand filings waits exactly as long as one with three.
- The name is a legal entity
- DOL prints whatever went on the form. 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 120 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. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover
DOL's FY2026 Q3 and FY2025 Q4 and New Form FY2024 Q4 and FY2024 Q4 PERM disclosure files, unioned and de-duplicated by case number: 373,939 cases. Every case in them carries a decision, so nothing here counts what’s still pending. How each figure is built, and what it can and can't answer, is set out in the methodology.
Your case is with them?
The decision estimator reads your filing month against where DOL is now.
Comparing sponsors?
The full ranking sorts every column, and wages by occupation covers what the roles pay.
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Aug 26, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly ingest
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Sep 1, 2026 · daily