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PERM sponsor, #5,249 of 70,985 by filings

KMIN USA, Inc.

KMIN USA, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 3 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on May 12, 2026. KMIN USA, Inc. has 3 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Automotive Engineering Technicians · 11% of its filings
Main worksite
Valley, AL · 100% of its filings
Industry
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · NAICS 3363

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Too few cases for a rate

9 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

9

#5,249 of 70,985

Certified

8

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 9 decided

Median wage

$55,411

offered, per year

Median days

432

middle of 9 decided

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 13 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

3

of 13 tracked cases. The other 10 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed June 11, 2025, 16 months ago.

Where those 3 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
267%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
133%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 13 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 13, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 23, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

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. Every employer

    median of 31,881 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,585 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
9 published
3 pending
9 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
15 published
1 pending
$55,411 median, n=15
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 KMIN USA, 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 filings in the last 12 months

    3 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 68% of the 14,035 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

432 daysmiddle of 9 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 9 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 9 filings each.

Their median wait
473 days
This one
432 days

This one sits 41 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 5,249 of 70,985 by volume: 5,248 filed at least as many filings, and 65,736 filed no more.

Just above
Inmar, Inc. 9 filings
Just below
CalColor Academy Inc. 9 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 Automotive Engineering Technicians, 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

Automotive Engineering Technicians

SOC 17-3027.01 · 1 filings, 11% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 6 of 9 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

Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing

NAICS 3363 · 9 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

  • Alabama 9
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 9 of 9 filings.

Where the work is

  • Valley, AL 9
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 9 of 9 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Park and Associates PC 9 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 9 of 9 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Opelika-Auburn News

    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.

Additional steps it used

  1. Job search websites

    5 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    5 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    5 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    75%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    25%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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 2017

20 PERM decisions from FY2017 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 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
FY2017 1 0 0
FY2018 2 1 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 2 0 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 1 0 0
FY2024 1 0 0
FY2025 1 0 0
FY2026 6 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 11. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22186-83294 2023-04-25 certified Mechanical Designer, AL $68,390
A-20153-60465 2021-05-25 certified Accounting Specialist, AL $40,000
A-20092-37980 2021-04-21 certified General Manager of Quality Control, AL $78,208
A-20087-36263 2020-08-10 certified Automotive Parts Product Design Specialist, AL $43,000
A-19115-97475 2020-02-21 certified Cost Estimator, AL $43,000
A-19115-97381 2019-06-26 certified Electrical Engineer, AL $69,077
A-19114-96944 2019-06-14 certified Design Engineer II, AL $75,000
A-18026-35934 2018-06-06 certified Mechanical Engineer, AL $55,848
The other 3
A-17170-52879 2018-03-29 denied Mechanical Engineer, AL $75,000
A-17236-79714 2018-02-01 certified Process Engineer, AL $59,000
A-16351-81878 2017-03-02 certified Marketing Specialist, AL $43,000

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

  • South Korea 11

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 9
  • Master's 2

Visa held when filed

  • E-2 7
  • F-1 2
  • H-1B 1
  • J-1 1

Schools

  • SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY 2
  • CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY 1
  • HANKUK UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES 1
  • HANYANG UNIVERISTY 1
  • KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY 1
  • PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 1

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5
  • ACCOUNTING 1
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • CHEMISTRY 1
  • ELECTRICAL ENGIENERING (ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING) 1
  • ENGINEERING MECHANICAL 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 Automotive Engineering Technicians, 1 of 9. 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 9 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 5,249. 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 9 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. The worksite on most of these is AL. 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 23, 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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