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PERM sponsor, #9,811 of 70,985 by filings

Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.

Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 5 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 29, 2026. Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. has 4 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Electrical Engineers · 50% of its filings
Main worksite
Eagan, MN · 100% of its filings
Industry
Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control · NAICS 221121

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Too few cases for a rate

4 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

4

#9,811 of 70,985

Certified

3

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 4 decided

Median wage

$127,925

offered, per year

Median days

574

middle of 4 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 7 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

4

of 7 tracked cases. The other 3 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 29, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 4 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
4100%

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 7 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 7, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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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 29,586 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,522 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 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)
4 published
4 pending
4 wages, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
10 published
1 pending
$104,166 median, n=10
H-1B labor condition applications
64 published
0 pending
$114,608 median, n=64

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, read under the 2 spellings DOL's files use for it; 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 Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26238-195627 Principal Engineer, Market Research and Development 2026-08-26 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26082-722532 Principal Advisor, R&D $111,509 per year 2026-03-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25255-306314 Engineer, Operations Systems $79,123 per year 2025-09-12 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25251-294027 Engineer, Operations Systems $79,123 per year 2025-09-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25192-168247 Senior Network Analyst $104,166 per year 2025-07-11 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-26285-293987 Senior Director Data and Analytics 2026-10-12 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26281-288237 Principal Engineer Operations Systems 2026-10-08 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26162-004813 Senior Director Software Engineering $235,000 per year 2026-06-11 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26127-882000 Principal Advisor, Research and Development $175,000 per year 2026-05-07 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-26118-844794 Principal Engineer I Operation Systems $165,000 per year 2026-04-28 · CERTIFIED

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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 64 LCAs filed by Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., 62 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

10 positions for new employment, 16 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 10 · 16%
  • Change of employer 7e 16 · 26%
  • Continuing 7b 15 · 24%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 9 · 15%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 12 · 19%

Shares of the 62 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.

What each box on the form means
  • New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
  • Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
  • Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
  • Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
  • Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
  • Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.

Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.

Wage level it chose

  • Level I 0 · 0%
  • Level II 18 · 30%
  • Level III 23 · 38%
  • Level IV 20 · 33%

Shares of the 61 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 1 of 62 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.

What it declared on Section H

H-1B-dependent
No
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 11, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 61 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 64. Both are the employer's own answers.

What the two answers mean

H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.

Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.

Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR

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

    5 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 80% of the 13,976 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    17 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 80% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    55% of 20 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 98% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

574 daysmiddle of 4 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 4 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 4 filings each.

Their median wait
484 days
This one
574 days

This one sits 90 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 9,811 of 70,985 by volume: 9,810 filed at least as many filings, and 61,174 filed no more.

Just above
Precision Medicine Group, LLC 4 filings
Just below
GEA Systems North America LLC 4 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 Electrical Engineers, 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

Electrical Engineers

SOC 17-2071 · 2 filings, 50% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 3 of 4 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

Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control

NAICS 221121 · 4 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

  • Minnesota 4
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 4 of 4 filings.

Where the work is

  • Eagan, MN 4
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 4 of 4 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP 3 filings
  2. Quarles & Brady LLP 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 4 of 4 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    1 cases

  2. Star Tribune

    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.

Additional steps it used

  1. The employer's website

    2 cases

  2. Job search websites

    2 cases

  3. Employee referral programs

    1 cases

  4. On-campus recruiting

    1 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

    50%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    0.0%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    50%

  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

38 PERM decisions from FY2015 to FY2026, busiest in FY2018 with 15.

  • 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 3 0 0
FY2016 8 0 0
FY2017 2 0 0
FY2018 15 0 0
FY2019 5 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 2 1 0
FY2025 0 0 0
FY2026 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 31. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-20251-96729 2021-05-19 certified Engineer II Operations (Ops) Systems, IN $95,617
A-19107-94141 2019-07-10 certified Process & Performance Lead, IN $125,921
A-19107-94108 2019-07-10 certified Engineer II Economic Studies, MN $88,301
A-19014-62317 2019-05-14 certified Engineer II, Policy Studies, MN $92,911
A-18198-97966 2018-10-25 certified Engineer II Model Engineering, IN $85,000
A-18196-97505 2018-10-22 certified Engineer II, Market Engineering, IN $90,075
A-18108-64603 2018-08-13 certified Senior Engineer, Interconnection Resource Studies, IN $100,880
A-18046-44259 2018-07-24 certified Principal Engineer Transmission Design, MN $125,000
The other 17
A-18047-44282 2018-07-24 certified Policy Planning Engineer II, LA $88,236
A-18030-36811 2018-07-24 certified Senior Electrical Engineer, Expansion Planning, IN $98,115
A-18047-44233 2018-07-16 certified Engineer II, Transmission Security Planning, IN $83,245
A-18046-44260 2018-07-16 certified Engineer II, FTR & Pricing, IN $80,136
A-18073-52328 2018-07-05 certified Outage Coordination Engineer II, IN $84,378
A-18019-33153 2018-06-06 certified Engineer II, Seams Administration, IN $78,000
A-18019-33148 2018-06-06 certified Engineer II, Seams Administration, IN $78,000
A-18019-33154 2018-06-04 certified Engineer II, Seams Administration, IN $78,000
A-17228-76253 2018-05-25 certified Engineer II, Seams Administration, IN $82,239
A-18016-31436 2018-05-23 certified Engineer II, Market Eval. and Design, IN $87,862
A-18016-31429 2018-05-23 certified Engineer II, Market Eval. and Design, IN $87,862
A-17339-17551 2018-04-30 certified Reliability Engineer II, MN $91,709
A-17157-46973 2018-02-02 certified Engineer II Resource Transmission Studies, IN $94,432
A-16278-58719 2017-01-27 certified Engineer II EMS-Multiple Openings, IN $96,554
A-16272-57194 2016-12-22 certified Engineer II EMS-Multiple Openings, IN $96,554
A-16096-93079 2016-07-18 certified Engineer II FTR & Pricing, IN $96,554
A-16096-93190 2016-07-18 certified Engineer II, System Modeling, MN $106,974

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

  • India 16
  • China 9
  • Canada 2
  • Jordan 1
  • Nigeria 1
  • Uganda 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 24
  • Doctorate 6
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 31

Schools

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 7
  • MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2
  • POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO 1
  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1

Fields of study

  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 20
  • ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING 6
  • ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 3
  • CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 1
  • U.S. EQUIV. OF MASTER'S DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 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 entry 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 #9,811 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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 Electrical Engineers, 2 of 4. 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 4 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 9,811. 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 4 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 MN. 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.

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