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PERM sponsor, #5,491 of 70,985 by filings
Saginaw Valley State University
Saginaw Valley State University sponsors green cards: it filed 6 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 18, 2026. Saginaw Valley State University has 3 PERM cases waiting with DOL.
- Main job
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 38% of its filings
- Main worksite
- University Center, MI · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with Saginaw Valley State University?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
7 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
8
#5,491 of 70,985
Certified
7
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 7 decided
Median wage
$92,000
offered, per year
Median days
494
middle of 7 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Waiting on a decision
3
of 13 tracked cases. The other 10 have been decided.
The oldest one still waiting was filed January 13, 2026, 9 months ago.
Where those 3 are standing
- ANALYST REVIEW
- 3100%
A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.
None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.
Follow Saginaw Valley State University
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-300-26230-175428 Assistant Professor of Art filed 2026-08-18 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26110-814188 Asst. Prof. of Computer Science & Information Systems filed 2026-04-20 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-26013-555654 Assistant Professor of Nursing filed 2026-01-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
- G-300-25309-379094 Assistant Professor of Economics filed 2025-11-05 · CERTIFIED
- G-300-25309-379271 Assistant Professor of Accounting, Law, and Finance filed 2025-11-05 · CERTIFIED
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
- 302 days
Every employer
median of 28,776 decisions in the same 90 days
Only 1 of their cases was 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)
- 8 published
- 3 pending
- 8 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 9 published
- 1 pending
- 9 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 40 published
- 0 pending
- $93,000 median, n=40
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.
Its newest wage requests and LCAs
Filed by Saginaw Valley State University, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26237-190767 Assistant Professor of Political Science 2026-08-25 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-26110-812649 Assistant Professor of Art 2026-04-20 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25329-436941 Asst. Prof. of Computer Science & Information Systems $67,100 per year 2025-11-25 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25308-369397 Asst. Prof. of Teacher Education-Middle/Secondary Education $67,100 per year 2025-11-04 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25240-274436 Assistant Professor of Nursing $67,100 per year 2025-08-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26141-938552 Assistant Professor of Art $67,100 per year 2026-05-21 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26028-597636 Asst. Professor of Computer Science & Information Systems $93,000 per year 2026-01-28 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26005-534511 Assistant Professor of Music $67,897 per year 2026-01-05 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26005-534434 Assistant Professor of Management $103,968 per year 2026-01-05 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25324-426402 Head Men's Soccer Coach $55,040 per year 2025-11-20 · CERTIFIED
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.
Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 88% of its coded PERM filings name NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools), and colleges hire H-1B workers outside the lottery (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(5)(A)). Whether this employer qualifies is USCIS's call.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 40 LCAs filed by Saginaw Valley State University, 37 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
17 positions for new employment, 3 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 17 · 46%
- Change of employer 7e 3 · 8%
- Continuing 7b 16 · 43%
- Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 1 · 3%
Shares of the 37 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 0 · 0%
- Level II 5 · 83%
- Level III 1 · 17%
- Level IV 0 · 0%
Shares of the 6 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; 31 of 37 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 May 21, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 40 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 40. 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
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
6 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 83% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
17 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 80% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
494 daysmiddle of 7 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 8 and 9 filings.
- Their median wait
- 465 days
- This one
- 494 days
This one sits 29 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 5,491 of 70,985 by volume: 5,490 filed at least as many filings, and 65,494 filed no more.
- Just above
- SOCCER IN USA HOLDING LLC 8 filings
- Just below
- Autonomous Stuff LLC 8 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #5,490 SOCCER IN USA HOLDING LLC 8 filings · 2 denied
- #5,492 Autonomous Stuff LLC 8 filings · 1 denied
- #5,489 Uniplus Consultants, Inc. 8 filings · none denied
- #5,493 Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO) 8 filings · none denied
- #5,488 Six Continents Hotels, Inc. (InterContinental Hotels Group) 8 filings · none denied
- #5,494 Sony Music Entertainment 8 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Business Teachers, Postsecondary, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #299 Univ of WI System 124 filings · 2 denied
- #478 Indiana University 78 filings · 3 denied
- #391 The Pennsylvania State University 93 filings · 1 denied
- #926 Harvard University 43 filings · none denied
- #698 The University of Chicago 56 filings · none denied
- #465 Purdue University 79 filings · 3 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
Business Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1011.00 · 3 filings, 38% of everything they file
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1121.001
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1042.001
- Coaches and Scouts 27-2022.001
- Law Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1112.001
- N/A 17-20711
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 8 of 8 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
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
NAICS 611310, 61131 · 8 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
- Michigan 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. This state covers 8 of 8 filings.
Where the work is
- University Center, MI 8
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 8 of 8 filings.
Who files for them
- Varnum LLP 4 filings
- Warner Norcross + Judd LLP 3 filings
- Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone PLC 1 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 8 of 8 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 1 cases
Detroit Free Press
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 cases
The employer's website
- 1 cases
Job search websites
- 1 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 1 cases
Radio or TV ads
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 100%
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 2025
8 PERM decisions from FY2025 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 5.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 4 | 0 | 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 #5,491 counts this page's cases only.
3 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 Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 3 of 8. 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 8 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 5,491. 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 7 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. The worksite on most of these is MI. 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.