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PERM sponsor, #238 of 70,985 by filings

Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc.

Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 99 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 6, 2026. Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc. has 53 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · 61% of its filings
Main worksite
Wisner, LA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging · NAICS 311710

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Filings

165

#238 of 70,985

Certified

164

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$22,027

offered, per year

Median days

426

40 faster 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 255 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

53

of 255 tracked cases. The other 202 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 2, 2026, 3 months ago.

Where those 53 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
53100%

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 255 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 255, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. October 6 DOL certified 18 of its cases
  2. September 2 DOL certified 15 of its cases
  3. August 31 DOL certified 12 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. Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc.

    median of 46 decisions in the last 90 days

    300 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 32,343 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 79,966 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
165 published
53 pending
$22,027 median, n=165
Prevailing wage requests
2 published
1 pending
2 wages, 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 Louisiana Pride Catfish, 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.

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc., as DOL's case-status service shows them.

  • H-300-23298-456636 H-2A application Farmworkers and Laborers 2023-10-25 · WITHDRAWN
  • H-300-23009-689080 H-2A application Farmworkers and Laborers 2023-01-09 · FULL CERTIFICATION - EXPIRED

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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 164 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    99 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,049 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

426 daysahead of 79%

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 124 and 213 filings.

Their median wait
469 days
This one
426 days

This one sits 43 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 238 of 70,985 by volume: 237 filed at least as many filings, and 70,747 filed no more.

Just above
Atlassian US, Inc. 165 filings
Just below
Siemens Industry Software Inc. 164 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 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 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

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

SOC 51-3022.00 · 100 filings, 61% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 165 of 165 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

Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging

NAICS 311710 · 165 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

  • Louisiana 165
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 165 of 165 filings.

Where the work is

  • Wisner, LA 165
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 165 of 165 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Law Office of Tae K Song 165 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 165 of 165 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The News Star

    100 cases

  2. The New Star

    1 cases

  3. Newspaper of general circulation

    1 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

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    1.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    34%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    9.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    56%

  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 2018

347 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 129.

  • 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
FY2018 12 0 0
FY2019 26 5 1
FY2020 3 6 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 129 0 0
FY2024 65 0 0
FY2025 0 0 1
FY2026 99 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 182. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22287-39839 2023-09-26 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22278-33798 2023-09-26 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46904 2023-09-21 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46953 2023-09-20 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46945 2023-09-20 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46939 2023-09-20 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46924 2023-09-20 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80075 2023-09-07 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
The other 17
A-22179-80055 2023-09-07 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80032 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80027 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80026 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80022 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80017 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80015 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-80013 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-79989 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22179-79980 2023-09-06 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46957 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46952 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46948 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46942 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46929 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46919 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701
A-22300-46915 2023-09-05 certified FISH CUTTER, LA $17,701

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

  • Cambodia 76
  • China 52
  • Vietnam 30
  • Hong Kong 7
  • Nepal 6
  • Pakistan 3

Worker's education

  • None 182

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 9
  • B-2 1

Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The 13 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #238 counts this page's cases only.

77 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 100 of 165. 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 165 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 238. 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 164 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 LA. 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 25, 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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