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PERM sponsor, #42 of 70,985 by filings

NORMAN W. FRIES, INC

NORMAN W. FRIES, INC sponsors green cards: it filed 458 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 15, 2026. NORMAN W. FRIES, INC has 398 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products · 97% of its filings
Main worksite
Claxton, GA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Poultry Processing · NAICS 311615

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Filings

780

#42 of 70,985

Certified

774

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$24,360

offered, per year

Median days

470

4 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 1,348 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

398

of 1,348 tracked cases. The other 950 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 2, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 398 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
398100%

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 1,348 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1,348, 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. September 23 DOL certified 21 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. NORMAN W. FRIES, INC

    median of 63 decisions in the last 90 days

    297 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 80,225 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)
780 published
398 pending
$24,360 median, n=780
Prevailing wage requests
5 published
1 pending
5 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 NORMAN W. FRIES, 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 NORMAN W. FRIES, INC, as DOL's case-status service shows them.

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 774 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    458 filed in the last 12 months

    At the top of the 14,050 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

470 daysahead of 43%

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 101 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 356 and 6,875 filings.

Their median wait
461 days
This one
470 days

This one sits 9 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 42 of 70,985 by volume: 41 filed at least as many filings, and 70,943 filed no more.

Just above
WAYNE FARMS LLC 784 filings
Just below
Wipro Limited 780 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 Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products, 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

Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products

SOC 45-2041.00 · 756 filings, 97% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the occupation with the most filings, 756 of 780 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

Poultry Processing

NAICS 311615 · 780 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

  • Georgia 780
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 780 of 780 filings.

Where the work is

  • Claxton, GA 780
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 780 of 780 filings.

Who files for them

  1. LAW OFFICE OF TAE K SONG 607 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Cho Law LLC 98 filings · 100.0% approved
  3. Springdale Law Group 2 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 707 of 780 filings, 91% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Savannah Morning News

    727 cases

  2. SAVANNAHNOW

    53 cases

  3. Savanah Morning News

    1 cases

  4. Savannah Morning newws

    1 cases

  5. SAVANNHANOW

    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

    28%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    16%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    35%

  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 2024

780 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 435.

  • 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
FY2024 20 0 4
FY2025 321 0 0
FY2026 433 0 2

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 4 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 #42 counts this page's cases only.

70 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 Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products, 756 of 780. 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 780 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 42. 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 774 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 GA. 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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