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PERM sponsor, #245 of 70,985 by filings

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company sponsors green cards: it filed 25 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 13, 2026. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company has 21 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 52% of its filings
Main worksite
Milwaukee, WI · 64% of its filings
Industry
Insurance Carriers · NAICS 5241

Waiting on a case with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 145 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

159

#245 of 70,985

Certified

144

1 denied

Approval

99.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$119,184

offered, per year

Median days

447

19 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 154 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

21

of 154 tracked cases. The other 133 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 27, 2024, 21 months ago.

Where those 21 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1990%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
210%

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 154 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 154, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

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.

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. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

    median of 6 decisions in the last 90 days

    302 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 79,979 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)
159 published
21 pending
$119,184 median, n=159
Prevailing wage requests
140 published
18 pending
$111,966 median, n=135
H-1B labor condition applications
921 published
4 pending
$124,500 median, n=918

Its median H-1B wage is $124,500 across 918 LCAs, 4.5% higher than its median PERM wage of $119,184 across 159 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.

Of its 21 pending PERM cases, 2 (9.5%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 2 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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 4 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 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

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: 921 LCAs filed by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, 838 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

88 positions for new employment, 296 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 88 · 11%
  • Change of employer 7e 296 · 35%
  • Continuing 7b 125 · 15%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 254 · 30%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 78 · 9%

Shares of the 838 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 19 · 3%
  • Level II 210 · 28%
  • Level III 256 · 34%
  • Level IV 275 · 36%

Shares of the 760 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; 78 of 838 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 12, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 826 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 911. 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

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 911 · E-3 (Australia) 8 · H-1B1 (Chile) 2. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

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

    99.3% of 145 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 28% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    25 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 97% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    182 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    5.0% of 221 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 19% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    72% of 173 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 86% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

  • USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years

    99.4% of 310 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 58% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

99.3%ahead of 28%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

447 daysahead of 69%

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 121 and 206 filings.

Their median wait
470 days
This one
447 days

This one sits 23 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 245 of 70,985 by volume: 244 filed at least as many filings, and 70,740 filed no more.

Just above
Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) 160 filings
Just below
NX Automotive Logistics USA, Inc. 157 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 Software Developers, 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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 83 filings, 52% of everything they file · 98.7% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 119 of 159 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

Insurance Carriers

NAICS 5241 · 159 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

  • Wisconsin 151
  • New York 8
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. These 2 states cover 159 of 159 filings.

Where the work is

  • Milwaukee, WI 102
  • Franklin, WI 48
  • New York, NY 8
  • Miwaukee, WI 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 159 of 159 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Quarles & Brady LLP 159 filings · 99.3% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 159 of 159 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    107 cases

  2. The New York Times

    6 cases

  3. Milwaukee Journal Sentinelv

    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

    113 cases

  2. Job search websites

    113 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    113 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

    26%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    53%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    11%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    11%

  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 2016

260 PERM decisions from FY2016 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 63.

  • 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
FY2016 3 0 0
FY2017 2 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 4 0 0
FY2020 14 0 0
FY2021 22 0 1
FY2022 18 0 2
FY2023 34 1 0
FY2024 56 0 7
FY2025 38 0 7
FY2026 50 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 101. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22250-17622 2023-09-14 certified Senior Systems Engineer, WI $115,000
A-22186-83593 2023-09-14 certified Manager, Data Engineering, WI $137,723
A-22252-18863 2023-08-24 certified Software Engineer, WI $100,000
A-22191-85812 2023-08-07 certified Lead Enterprise Architect, WI $140,500
A-22167-73363 2023-08-07 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $119,700
A-22213-98314 2023-07-27 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $105,000
A-22206-94534 2023-07-24 certified Systems Engineer, WI $100,000
A-22095-36052 2023-07-10 certified Senior Test Engineer, WI $102,600
The other 17
A-22085-31234 2023-06-26 certified Senior Test Engineer, WI $109,657
A-22207-94544 2023-06-22 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $121,000
A-22227-05713 2023-06-15 certified Test Engineer Lead, WI $126,113
A-22151-63802 2023-06-07 certified Senior Data Engineer, WI $110,000
A-22159-68326 2023-05-18 certified Test Engineer, WI $90,000
A-22110-43240 2023-05-08 certified Lead Software Engineer, WI $135,000
A-22073-25299 2023-04-19 certified Software Engineer, WI $100,000
A-22084-31168 2023-04-18 certified Senior Software Engineer, NY $145,454
A-22177-78394 2023-04-07 certified Sr. Data Engineer, WI $113,960
A-22034-06899 2023-04-05 certified Software Engineer, WI $117,686
A-22136-56048 2023-03-16 certified Data Engineer, WI $92,600
A-22138-57329 2023-03-06 certified Senior Test Engineer, WI $105,000
A-22110-43787 2023-02-27 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $125,400
A-22136-56086 2023-02-17 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $121,340
A-22125-51256 2023-02-16 certified Senior Software Engineer, WI $117,686
A-22078-27874 2023-02-10 certified Senior Systems Engineer, WI $120,000
A-22076-27099 2023-02-09 certified Test Engineer, NY $100,500

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 96
  • China 2
  • Nepal 1
  • Netherlands 1
  • New Zealand 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 57
  • Master's 44

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 98
  • H-4 2
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 9
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 6
  • OSMANIA UNIVERSITY 5
  • UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 4
  • BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY 3
  • SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE 3

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 21
  • ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 16
  • APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE 12
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 12
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4

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 5 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 #245 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 Software Developers, 83 of 159. 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 159 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 245. 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 145 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 WI. 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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