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PERM sponsor, #184 of 70,985 by filings

RESER'S FINE FOODS, INC.

Main job
Helpers--Production Workers · 95% of its filings
Main worksite
Topeka, KS · 56% of its filings
Industry
Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing · NAICS 311991

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Filings

209

#184 of 70,985

Certified

196

1 denied

Approval

99.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$29,640

offered, per year

Median days

500

34 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 185 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 185 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 185 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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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

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 80,983 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, and its seasonal H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 work, one line each.

PERM (green card)
209 published
0 pending
$29,640 median, n=207
Prevailing wage requests
65 published
0 pending
$32,843 median, n=61
H-1B labor condition applications
2 published
0 pending
2 wages, under the floor
H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 (seasonal work)
2 published
2 pending
2 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 2 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 105 workers across these filings.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by RESER'S FINE FOODS, INC., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25113-897435 GENERAL PLANT LABORER $37,648 per year 2025-04-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25113-897418 GENERAL PLANT LABORER $31,782 per year 2025-04-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25113-897408 GENERAL PLANT LABORER $31,782 per year 2025-04-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25113-897397 GENERAL PLANT LABORER $32,656 per year 2025-04-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25113-897396 GENERAL PLANT LABORER $31,782 per year 2025-04-23 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 2 LCAs filed by RESER'S FINE FOODS, INC., 2 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1 positions for new employment, 1 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1 · 50%
  • Change of employer 7e 1 · 50%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 2 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 2 · 100%
  • Level II 0 · 0%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 2 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; 0 of 2 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
not answered
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed April 26, 2021. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 0 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 2. 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

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by RESER'S FINE FOODS, 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

    99.5% of 197 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 29% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

Approval rate

99.5%ahead of 29%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

500 daysahead of 5%

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 160 and 291 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
500 days

This one sits 38 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 184 of 70,985 by volume: 183 filed at least as many filings, and 70,801 filed no more.

Just above
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. 209 filings
Just below
Homes for Independent Living of Wisconsin LLC 206 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 Helpers--Production Workers, 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

Helpers--Production Workers

SOC 51-9198.00 · 199 filings, 95% of everything they file · 99.5% approved

How this is counted

These are the occupation with the most filings, 199 of 209 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

Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing

NAICS 311991 · 209 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

  • Kansas 117
  • Oregon 70
  • North Carolina 22
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 3 states cover 209 of 209 filings.

Where the work is

  • Topeka, KS 117
  • Salem, OR 45
  • Hillsboro, OR 25
  • Halifax, NC 22
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 209 of 209 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Najla Abu-Shaaban & Associates PC 208 filings · 99.5% approved
  2. Hammond Neal Moore 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 209 of 209 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Topeka Capital-Journal

    115 cases

  2. Salem Statesman Journal

    45 cases

  3. The Oregonian

    25 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    16%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    83%

  7. Over 180 days

    1.1%
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

209 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 140.

  • 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 23 1 10
FY2025 138 0 2
FY2026 35 0 0

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. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. Nothing else in the file starts the same way.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Helpers--Production Workers, 199 of 209. 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 209 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 184. 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 197 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 KS. 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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