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PERM sponsor, #329 of 70,985 by filings
Karst Stage, Inc.
- Main job
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment · 100% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Bozeman, MT · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation · NAICS 4852
Waiting on a case with Karst Stage, Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
This rate is level with the field
Over 110 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.
Why
The 95% interval runs up to a 3.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.
Filings
111
#329 of 70,985
Certified
110
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$31,200
offered, per year
Median days
489
23 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 111 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow Karst Stage, Inc.
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 29,912 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 80,261 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
- 111 published
- 0 pending
- $31,200 median, n=111
- Prevailing wage requests
- 1 published
- 0 pending
- 1 wage, under the floor
- 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 Karst Stage, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-24355-562423 Vehicle Cleaner $13.28 per hour 2024-12-20 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23072-843523 Vehicle Cleaner 2023-03-13 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22287-530549 Vehicle Cleaner 2022-10-14 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22083-006823 General Laborer 2022-03-24 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-21319-705733 General Laborer 2021-11-15 · 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.
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.
PERM approval rate
100.0% of 110 decided PERM cases
Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.
Approval rate
100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more
Median days to decision
489 daysahead of 15%
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 94 and 141 filings.
- Their median wait
- 470 days
- This one
- 489 days
This one sits 19 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 329 of 70,985 by volume: 328 filed at least as many filings, and 70,656 filed no more.
- Just above
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY 111 filings
- Just below
- Coinbase, Inc. 111 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #328 MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY 111 filings · 1 denied
- #330 Coinbase, Inc. 111 filings · 3 denied
- #327 Costco Wholesale Corporation 111 filings · none denied
- #331 RGAC Enterprises, Inc. 111 filings · none denied
- #326 Delta Air Lines, Inc. 112 filings · none denied
- #332 Roku, Inc. 111 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment, 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
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
SOC 53-7061.00 · 111 filings, 100% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
These are the occupation with the most filings, 111 of 111 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
Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation
NAICS 4852 · 111 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
- Montana 111
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 111 of 111 filings.
Where the work is
- Bozeman, MT 111
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 111 of 111 filings.
Who files for them
- Ruby Law Group LLC 111 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 111 of 111 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 111 cases
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
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
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 51%
120 to 149 days
- 49%
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 2023
127 PERM decisions from FY2023 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 110.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2026 | 110 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 16. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22158-67871 | 2023-08-18 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22158-67851 | 2023-08-18 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66770 | 2023-08-17 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66764 | 2023-08-17 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66694 | 2023-08-17 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66675 | 2023-08-17 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22125-51036 | 2023-08-17 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22160-68953 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
The other 8
| A-22158-67895 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22158-67869 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22158-67853 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22158-67847 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66730 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66719 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22157-66687 | 2023-03-22 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
| A-22105-41653 | 2023-01-18 | certified | GENERAL LABORER, MT | $31,200 |
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
- Vietnam 6
- Bangladesh 4
- Bolivia 1
- Bulgaria 1
- Mexico 1
- Peru 1
Worker's education
- High School 14
- None 2
Visa held when filed
- F-1 1
Schools
- 127 TH HIGH SCHOOL IVAN DENKOGLU 1
- ADAMJEE CANTONMENT COLLLEGE 1
- CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS TECNOLOGICOS INDUSTRIALES Y DE SERVICIOS 1
- CHO GAO HIGH SCHOOL 1
- COLEGIO CROATA 1
- DHAKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 1
Fields of study
- HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA 13
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 Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment, 111 of 111. 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 111 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 329. 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 110 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 MT. 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 20, 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.