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PERM sponsor, #280 of 70,985 by filings

Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc.

Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 34 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 30, 2026. Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc. has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

Main job
Chefs and Head Cooks · 78% of its filings
Main worksite
Wayne, NJ · 7% of its filings
Industry
Restaurants and Other Eating Places · NAICS 72251

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Filings

134

#280 of 70,985

Certified

120

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$61,339

offered, per year

Median days

486

20 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 140 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 140 tracked cases. The other 139 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed June 30, 2026, 3 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1100%

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 140 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 140, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 11 DOL certified 18 of its cases
  2. September 10 DOL certified 10 of its cases

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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. Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc.

    median of 32 decisions in the last 90 days

    301 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 79,928 cases, and would be decided around March 24, 2027 (between March 4, 2027 and May 3, 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)
134 published
1 pending
$61,339 median, n=134
Prevailing wage requests
440 published
0 pending
$75,587 median, n=439
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 Fogo de Chao Holdings Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

None confirmed yet.

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.

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

    100.0% of 120 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    34 filed in the last 12 months

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

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

486 daysahead of 19%

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 107 and 180 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
486 days

This one sits 18 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 280 of 70,985 by volume: 279 filed at least as many filings, and 70,705 filed no more.

Just above
Discover Products Inc. 134 filings
Just below
Clemens Food Group LLC 132 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 Chefs and Head Cooks, 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

Chefs and Head Cooks

SOC 35-1011.00 · 105 filings, 78% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

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.

The industry they declared

Restaurants and Other Eating Places

NAICS 72251 · 79 filings

  • Full-Service Restaurants 72251128
  • Food Services and Drinking Places (Census group 722) 72211027
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 24
  • Pennsylvania 23
  • California 20
  • New Jersey 17
  • Georgia 14
  • Illinois 13
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. These 6 states cover 111 of 134 filings.

Where the work is

  • Wayne, NJ 9
  • Atlanta, GA 8
  • Burlington, MA 8
  • Kansas City, MO 8
  • King of Prussia, PA 8
  • Paramus, NJ 8
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 49 of 134 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Baker & Hostetler LLP 134 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 134 of 134 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Philadelphia Inquirer

    16 cases

  2. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    14 cases

  3. The Dallas Morning News

    9 cases

  4. The Star-Ledger

    9 cases

  5. Boston Sunday Globe

    8 cases

  6. The Kansas City Star

    8 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

    0.9%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    99%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
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 2015

269 PERM decisions from FY2015 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 73.

  • 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
FY2015 6 0 0
FY2016 17 0 1
FY2017 19 0 1
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 33 1 0
FY2020 11 0 0
FY2021 5 0 1
FY2022 20 3 0
FY2023 15 2 0
FY2024 26 0 3
FY2025 26 0 6
FY2026 68 0 5

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 129. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22273-31336 2023-09-25 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22269-28165 2023-09-25 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22269-28140 2023-09-25 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22272-30898 2023-09-22 certified Churrasqueiro II, CA $59,197
A-22269-28149 2023-09-22 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $52,208
A-22273-31419 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22273-31409 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22273-31397 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
The other 17
A-22273-31348 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $52,208
A-22273-31321 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22273-31285 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-22272-30912 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, CA $59,197
A-22272-30849 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, CA $59,197
A-22272-30810 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, CA $59,197
A-22269-28168 2023-09-21 certified Churrasqueiro II, IL $61,963
A-21271-51086 2022-10-25 denied Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51082 2022-10-25 denied Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51122 2022-09-22 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51119 2022-09-22 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51048 2022-09-22 certified Assistant Manager, FL $60,528
A-21341-82740 2022-09-01 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51124 2022-05-27 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51110 2022-05-27 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51115 2022-05-17 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656
A-21271-51084 2022-05-17 certified Churrasqueiro II, TX $58,656

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

  • Brazil 129

Worker's education

  • None 128
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 115
  • J-1 5
  • L-1 4

Schools

  • SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • ENGINEERING 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 Chefs and Head Cooks, 105 of 134. 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 134 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 280. 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. 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 24, 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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