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PERM sponsor, #693 of 70,985 by filings

Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Ochsner Clinic Foundation sponsors green cards: it filed 37 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 24, 2026. Ochsner Clinic Foundation has 37 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists · 57% of its filings
Main worksite
New Orleans, LA · 77% of its filings
Industry
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · NAICS 62211

Waiting on a case with Ochsner Clinic Foundation?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 56 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 12.1% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

56

#693 of 70,985

Certified

54

2 denied

Approval

96.4%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$53,248

offered, per year

Median days

492

26 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 99 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

37

of 99 tracked cases. The other 62 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed July 24, 2025, 14 months ago.

Where those 37 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
3697%

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

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
13%

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 99 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 99, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

Follow Ochsner Clinic Foundation

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. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 4 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
56 published
37 pending
$53,248 median, n=56
Prevailing wage requests
214 published
13 pending
$43,306 median, n=198
H-1B labor condition applications
599 published
0 pending
$67,392 median, n=598

Its median H-1B wage is $67,392 across 598 LCAs, 27% higher than its median PERM wage of $53,248 across 56 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 37 pending PERM cases, 1 (2.7%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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; 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 Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 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: 599 LCAs filed by Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 593 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

319 positions for new employment, 31 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 319 · 53%
  • Change of employer 7e 31 · 5%
  • Continuing 7b 219 · 37%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 17 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 18 · 3%

Shares of the 599 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 64 · 11%
  • Level II 509 · 86%
  • Level III 12 · 2%
  • Level IV 7 · 1%

Shares of the 592 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 593 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 584 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 599. 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 598 · E-3 (Australia) 1. 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

    96.4% of 56 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 11% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    37 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    219 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    4.7% of 256 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 18% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    3.9% of 255 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 15% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.0% of 299 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 42% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

96.4%ahead of 11%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

492 daysahead of 11%

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 52 and 60 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
492 days

This one sits 26 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 693 of 70,985 by volume: 692 filed at least as many filings, and 70,292 filed no more.

Just above
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION 56 filings
Just below
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC 56 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 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists, 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

Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists

SOC 29-2011.00 · 32 filings, 57% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 48 of 56 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

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals

NAICS 62211, 622110 · 56 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 54
  • Mississippi 2
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 56 of 56 filings.

Where the work is

  • New Orleans, LA 43
  • Gretna, LA 4
  • Kenner, LA 2
  • Meridian, MS 2
  • Baton Rouge, LA 1
  • Denham Springs, LA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 53 of 56 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Zollinger Immigration A Law Corporation 33 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Zollinger Immigration 23 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 56 of 56 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Times-Picayune

    48 cases

  2. The Advocate

    2 cases

  3. The Meridian Star

    2 cases

  4. The Advocate Baton Rouge

    1 cases

  5. The Courier/Daily Comet

    1 cases

  6. The Times Picayune - New Orleans

    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

    55 cases

  2. Job search websites

    55 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    55 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

    5.5%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    11%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    33%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    51%

  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 2008

115 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 30.

  • 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
FY2008 1 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 4 0 0
FY2011 2 0 0
FY2012 4 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 3 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 2 0 0
FY2017 1 0 0
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 1 0 0
FY2020 2 0 1
FY2021 7 0 0
FY2022 1 0 0
FY2023 26 0 0
FY2024 1 0 0
FY2025 29 1 0
FY2026 24 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 44. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22179-80227 2023-09-22 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22179-80173 2023-09-22 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22007-95318 2023-07-03 certified Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist, LA $225,000
A-22056-16257 2023-06-12 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22118-47542 2023-05-24 certified Geriatrics Palliative Medicine Physician, LA $220,000
A-22109-42620 2023-04-28 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22180-80733 2023-04-13 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22180-80802 2023-03-31 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
The other 17
A-22174-77105 2023-03-27 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22174-77069 2023-03-27 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22178-78908 2023-03-20 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22115-45649 2023-03-20 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22112-44713 2023-02-22 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22111-44088 2023-02-22 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22111-43991 2023-02-22 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22108-42240 2023-02-17 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22059-17061 2023-02-13 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22056-16596 2023-02-13 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22055-15845 2023-02-13 certified Histotechnologist, LA $41,288
A-22049-13427 2023-02-13 certified Histotechnologist, LA $41,288
A-22048-12817 2023-02-13 certified iO Data Scientist, LA $95,534
A-22090-34053 2023-02-10 certified Medical Technologist, LA $46,280
A-22145-61271 2023-02-03 certified IS Application Developer, LA $61,152
A-22138-57219 2023-02-02 certified Nephrologist, MS $265,000
A-22025-02704 2023-01-25 certified Clinical Analyst Lead, LA $61,152

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

  • Philippines 19
  • India 14
  • Honduras 3
  • Canada 2
  • Bulgaria 1
  • China 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 19
  • Other 15
  • Master's 10

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 44

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS 3
  • ANGELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 2
  • K S HEDGE MEDICAL ACADEMY 2
  • OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY 2
  • SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY 2
  • THE NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS 2

Fields of study

  • MEDICINE 14
  • MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 11
  • MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 8
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 1
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 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 #693 counts this page's cases only.

6 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 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists, 32 of 56. 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 56 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 693. 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 56 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 18, 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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