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PERM sponsor, #4,897 of 70,985 by filings
PROCESSORS, INC.
- Main job
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · 40% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Breaux Bridge, LA · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging · NAICS 31171
Waiting on a case with PROCESSORS, INC.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
10 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
10
#4,897 of 70,985
Certified
10
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 10 decided
Median wage
$22,131
offered, per year
Median days
426
40 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.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 8 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow PROCESSORS, INC.
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.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-200-23200-200225 Seafood Sanitation Worker filed 2023-07-19 · WITHDRAWN
- G-200-23200-200408 Seafood Sanitation Worker filed 2023-07-19 · WITHDRAWN
- G-200-23200-200329 Seafood Sanitation Worker filed 2023-07-19 · WITHDRAWN
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
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 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 79,922 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 2027). Estimate another date
Every program
Across DOL's programs
The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, and its seasonal H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 work, one line each.
- PERM (green card)
- 10 published
- 0 pending
- $22,131 median, n=10
- Prevailing wage requests
- 9 published
- 1 pending
- 9 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 0 published
- 0 pending
- no wage published
- H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 (seasonal work)
- 4 published
- 1 pending
- 4 hourly wages, under the floor
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. Seasonal wages stay hourly, as DOL's H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 files quote them: a job lasting a season, annualised over a full year, would describe pay nobody earns. DOL certified 369 workers across these filings.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by PROCESSORS, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26202-114599 Catfish Packer Hand 2026-07-21 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-24210-227238 Catfish Packer Hand $23,774 per year 2024-07-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24210-227233 Seafood Sanitation Worker $24,357 per year 2024-07-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24210-227229 Catfish Packer $28,912 per year 2024-07-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23334-532028 Seafood Sanitation Worker $22,880 per year 2023-11-29 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
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 PROCESSORS, INC., as DOL's case-status service shows them.
- P-400-26254-230825 H-2B wage request Fish Trimmer / Seafood Processing Worker 2026-09-11 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-400-26253-227419 H-2B wage request Fish Trimmer / Seafood Processing Worker 2026-09-10 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-400-26245-211374 H-2B wage request Fish Processor 2026-09-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-400-26203-116572 H-2B wage request Fish Processor 2026-07-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- H-400-25344-470262 H-2B application Fish Processor 2025-12-10 · WITHDRAWN
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
426 daysmiddle of 10 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 10 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 440 days
- This one
- 426 days
This one sits 14 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 4,897 of 70,985 by volume: 4,896 filed at least as many filings, and 66,088 filed no more.
- Just above
- Toledo Rehabilitation and Nursing Center LLC 10 filings
- Just below
- Progressive Rolling Hills LLC 10 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #4,896 Toledo Rehabilitation and Nursing Center LLC 10 filings · none denied
- #4,898 Progressive Rolling Hills LLC 10 filings · none denied
- #4,895 Paramount Global 10 filings · none denied
- #4,899 SERVICE KEEPERS MAINTENANCE, INC. 10 filings · 9 denied
- #4,894 PHKS, Inc. 10 filings · none denied
- #4,900 Therm-X of California, Inc. 10 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #2 FPL Food, LLC 2,953 filings · 1 denied
- #75 Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. 456 filings · 1 denied
- #7 Consolidated Catfish Producers, LLC 2,417 filings · 12 denied
- #191 JCG FOODS OF GEORGIA LLC DBA KOCH FOODS 199 filings · none denied
- #90 PECO FOODS, INC 399 filings · none denied
- #238 Louisiana Pride Catfish, Inc. 165 filings · none denied
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
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
SOC 51-3022 · 4 filings, 40% of everything they file
- Packers and Packagers, Hand 53-7064.002
- Packers and Packagers, Hand 53-70641
How this is counted
These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 7 of 10 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
Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging
NAICS 31171 · 9 filings
- Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (Census group 31171) 3117121
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 10
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 10 of 10 filings.
Where the work is
- Breaux Bridge, LA 10
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 10 of 10 filings.
Who files for them
- Michael Jeb Richard, LLC 10 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 10 of 10 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 5 cases
Acadiana Advocate
- 1 cases
Acadiana Adovacate
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 40%
60 to 89 days
- 60%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 0.0%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2018
30 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2025, busiest in FY2024 with 8.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 20. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22215-99801 | 2023-07-14 | certified | Catfish Packer Hand, LA | $24,794 |
| A-22213-98168 | 2023-07-03 | certified | Catfish Packer Hand, LA | $24,794 |
| A-23068-10844 | 2023-03-09 | withdrawn | Catfish Packer, LA | $25,854 |
| A-22050-13829 | 2023-02-01 | denied | Catfish Packer, LA | $26,146 |
| A-22050-13827 | 2023-02-01 | denied | Catfish Packer, LA | $26,146 |
| A-22050-13840 | 2022-11-16 | certified | Catfish Packer, LA | $26,146 |
| A-22213-98074 | 2022-08-01 | withdrawn | Catfish Packer Hand, LA | $24,794 |
| A-21106-75042 | 2022-03-14 | certified | Seafood and Catfish Packer, LA | $21,550 |
The other 12
| A-21099-72349 | 2022-03-14 | certified | Seafood and Catfish Packer, LA | $21,550 |
| A-20135-54575 | 2021-06-09 | certified | Catfish Packager, LA | $22,110 |
| A-20094-38939 | 2021-04-27 | certified | Catfish Packager, LA | $22,110 |
| A-20118-47751 | 2021-04-01 | certified | Seafood and Catfish Trimmer, LA | $22,110 |
| A-20052-21643 | 2021-04-01 | certified | Catfish Packer, LA | $22,110 |
| A-20051-21586 | 2021-04-01 | certified | Seafood and Catfish Trimmer, LA | $22,110 |
| A-20107-44026 | 2020-04-27 | withdrawn | Seafood and Catfish Trimmer, LA | $22,110 |
| A-18313-39798 | 2019-03-15 | certified | Seafood Production Processor, LA | $21,570 |
| A-17174-55630 | 2018-05-22 | certified | Packager, LA | $21,112 |
| A-17173-55160 | 2018-05-22 | certified | Catfish Trimmer, LA | $21,112 |
| A-17174-55881 | 2018-04-24 | denied | Production Worker, LA | $24,419 |
| A-17173-55115 | 2017-11-14 | certified | Catfish Processing Supervisor, LA | $21,112 |
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
- Mexico 20
Worker's education
- None 20
Visa held when filed
- H-2B 15
- NOT IN USA 4
Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers, 4 of 10. 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 10 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 4,897. 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 10 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 21, 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.