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PERM sponsor, #66,422 of 70,985 by filings

RICARDO, INC.

RICARDO, INC. has 1 PERM case waiting with DOL.

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Too few cases for a rate

1 decided filing: 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

1

#66,422 of 70,985

Certified

1

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 1 decided

Median wage

$135,000

offered, per year

Median days

379

middle of 1 decided

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 1 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

1

of 1 tracked cases. The other 0 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 26, 2024, 32 months ago.

Where those 1 are standing

BALCA APPEALS
1100%

The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of DOL administrative law judges. They review the record the officer already had, so it's legal argument rather than a fresh chance to put in evidence.

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 1 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 1, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 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.

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 28,776 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 80,916 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)
1 published
1 pending
1 wage, under the floor
Prevailing wage requests
3 published
0 pending
3 wages, under the floor
H-1B labor condition applications
44 published
0 pending
$104,800 median, n=44

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 3 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 RICARDO, INC., 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: 44 LCAs filed by RICARDO, INC., 44 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

7 positions for new employment, 15 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 7 · 16%
  • Change of employer 7e 15 · 34%
  • Continuing 7b 14 · 32%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 5 · 11%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 3 · 7%

Shares of the 44 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 9 · 20%
  • Level II 16 · 36%
  • Level III 16 · 36%
  • Level IV 3 · 7%

Shares of the 44 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 44 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 December 4, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 38 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 44. 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 RICARDO, 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.

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

    3 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 44% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

379 daysmiddle of 1 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 1 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 1 filings each.

Their median wait
384 days
This one
379 days

This one sits 5 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 66,422 of 70,985 by volume: 66,421 filed at least as many filings, and 4,563 filed no more.

Just above
MITHRIL THRAX LLC 1 filings
Just below
Averatek Corporation 1 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

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

History

Year by year since 2008

44 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2024, busiest in FY2014 with 6.

  • 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
FY2008 4 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 3 0 0
FY2011 2 0 1
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 6 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 5 0 0
FY2017 3 0 0
FY2018 5 0 0
FY2019 1 0 0
FY2020 2 0 0
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 3 0 1
FY2024 1 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 21. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22158-67513 2023-03-23 certified Business Analyst, MI $101,500
A-22087-31658 2023-01-09 certified Project Engineer, MI $92,500
A-22088-32145 2022-12-08 withdrawn Application Engineer, MI $84,032
A-22032-05736 2022-10-13 certified Consultant, MI $104,800
A-20097-39411 2020-11-17 certified Consultant – Electric (EV) Hybrid (HEV) and Autonomous (AV) Vehicle Technology, MI $135,000
A-19326-86706 2020-04-17 certified Project Engineer, CA $127,570
A-19226-44305 2019-11-05 certified Chief Engineer û Driveline and Transmission Systems, MI $130,000
A-19155-13648 2019-08-05 certified Electrification Strategy Manager, MI $152,000
The other 13
A-18130-73784 2018-08-01 certified Project Engineer, MI $91,900
A-18031-37586 2018-06-08 certified Business Development Manager, CA $166,754
A-17194-63217 2018-04-02 certified HOSTESS, NY $18,845
A-17277-94574 2018-03-23 certified Transmission Engineer, MI $83,500
A-17184-59361 2017-10-27 certified Project Engineer II, IL $99,611
A-17132-37745 2017-07-13 certified Project Engineer - Engine Design, MI $89,610
A-17097-22109 2017-06-07 certified Project Engineer, MI $82,400
A-17072-12921 2017-05-23 certified Project Engineer-Powertrain Development, MI $81,203
A-16115-01189 2016-07-14 certified Consultant, Ricardo Strategic Consulting, MI $133,000
A-15357-54282 2016-05-16 certified Project Engineer, IL $83,232
A-15321-40141 2016-04-15 certified Project Engineer, IL $83,200
A-15275-24488 2016-03-22 certified Software Commercial Manager - North America, MI $120,000
A-14213-94558 2015-10-28 certified Product Manager, Mechanical Dynamics, IL $110,916

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 11
  • United Kingdom 4
  • Austria 1
  • Canada 1
  • China 1
  • Czech Republic 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 17
  • Bachelor's 3
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 14
  • E-2 3
  • L-1 2
  • TN 1

Schools

  • MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 2
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK 2
  • CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 1
  • COVENTRY UNIVERSITY 1
  • CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE 1
  • GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 6
  • AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 1
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 1

Notes on these numbers

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
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 1 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 66,422. 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 1 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
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. 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 19, 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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