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PERM sponsor, #565 of 70,985 by filings

NORMAN W. FRIES, INC. DBA CLAXTON POULTRY FARMS

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 67 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

67

#565 of 70,985

Certified

67

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$23,360

offered, per year

Median days

375

91 faster than the field

Right now

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Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 21, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

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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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,340 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
67 published
no live read
$23,360 median, n=67
Prevailing wage requests
0 published
0 pending
no wage published
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.

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 67 decided PERM cases

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

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

375 daysahead of 98%

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 60 and 73 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
375 days

This one sits 91 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 565 of 70,985 by volume: 564 filed at least as many filings, and 70,420 filed no more.

Just above
MASTER STAFFING INC 67 filings
Just below
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska 66 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

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 · 67 filings, 100% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the occupation with the most filings, 67 of 67 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 · 67 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 67
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 67 of 67 filings.

Where the work is

  • Claxton, GA 67
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 67 of 67 filings.

History

Year by year since 2010

872 PERM decisions from FY2010 to FY2024, busiest in FY2016 with 375.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2010 31 0 3
FY2011 62 3 8
FY2012 29 2 2
FY2013 13 2 0
FY2014 26 13 5
FY2015 109 20 8
FY2016 259 97 19
FY2017 62 14 1
FY2018 0 7 8
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 1
FY2023 0 0 1
FY2024 67 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 469. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22333-64260 2022-11-30 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,742
A-22034-06989 2022-02-04 withdrawn PLANT LABOR, GA $17,742
A-17017-91981 2018-08-09 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17017-91979 2018-08-09 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17059-07822 2018-08-09 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-11329-20166 2018-05-08 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $16,848
A-12195-82127 2018-04-04 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-17017-91974 2017-12-13 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
The other 17
A-17017-91926 2017-12-13 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17031-97455 2017-12-13 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-16305-66580 2017-11-17 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-16305-66578 2017-11-15 withdrawn PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-12195-81835 2017-10-16 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-81825 2017-10-16 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-81816 2017-10-16 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-82102 2017-10-16 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-82099 2017-10-16 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12173-74700 2017-07-06 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-82110 2017-07-06 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-82123 2017-07-06 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-12195-81852 2017-06-28 denied Meat, Poultry and Fish Cutter and Trimmers, GA $17,014
A-17118-31325 2017-06-26 certified PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17118-31588 2017-06-26 certified PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17118-31294 2017-06-13 certified PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347
A-17118-31555 2017-06-13 certified PLANT LABORER, GA $17,347

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 255
  • China 177
  • Vietnam 35
  • Canada 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 184
  • High School 99
  • Associate's 72
  • None 69
  • Master's 33
  • Other 11

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 40
  • E-2 18
  • F-2 12
  • B-2 3

Schools

  • KONKUK UNIVERSITY 9
  • HANYANG UNIVERSITY 6
  • HONGIK UNIVERSITY 4
  • INHA UNIVERSITY 4
  • KOREA NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY 4
  • MANWAL MIDDLE SCHOOL 4

Fields of study

  • N/A 103
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 12
  • ACCOUNTING 9
  • LAW 8
  • ENGLISH 6
  • SOCIAL WELFARE 6

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 #565 counts this page's cases only.

783 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, 67 of 67. 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 67 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 565. 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 67 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

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.

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