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PERM sponsor, #950 of 70,985 by filings

San Diego State University

San Diego State University sponsors green cards: it filed 11 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 30, 2026. San Diego State University has 11 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 12% of its filings
Main worksite
San Diego, CA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with San Diego State University?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 40 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

42

#950 of 70,985

Certified

40

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$101,004

offered, per year

Median days

482

16 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 50 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

11

of 50 tracked cases. The other 39 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 8, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 11 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
11100%

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.

From DOL's live status of 50 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 50, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 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.

  • G-300-26181-069535 Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering filed 2026-06-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26168-022731 Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering filed 2026-06-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26167-017656 Assistant Professor (see F.a.2) filed 2026-06-16 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26161-003459 Assistant Professor of Information and Infrastructure filed 2026-06-10 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26160-998541 Assistant Professor of Public Administration filed 2026-06-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26160-998483 Assistant Professor (see F.a.2.) filed 2026-06-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26160-998441 Assistant Professor: Cybersecurity and Privacy filed 2026-06-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26015-563810 Assistant Professor (see F.a.2.) filed 2026-01-15 · ANALYST REVIEW

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 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,979 cases, and would be decided around March 23, 2027 (between March 3, 2027 and May 2, 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)
42 published
11 pending
$101,004 median, n=42
Prevailing wage requests
38 published
0 pending
$74,652 median, n=37
H-1B labor condition applications
145 published
0 pending
$103,008 median, n=145

Its median H-1B wage ($103,008 across 145 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($101,004 across 42 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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 San Diego State University, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25336-450920 Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering $74,652 per year 2025-12-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25336-450410 Assistant Professor: Cybersecurity and Privacy $74,652 per year 2025-12-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25247-286925 Assistant Professor (see F.a.2.) $74,652 per year 2025-09-04 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25241-278101 Assistant Professor of Public Administration $74,652 per year 2025-08-29 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25241-278083 Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering $74,652 per year 2025-08-29 · 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.

Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 100% 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: 145 LCAs filed by San Diego State University, 131 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

71 positions for new employment, 11 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 71 · 54%
  • Change of employer 7e 11 · 8%
  • Continuing 7b 47 · 36%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 1 · 1%

Shares of the 131 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 1 · 100%
  • Level II 0 · 0%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 1 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; 130 of 131 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 15, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 139 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 145. 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    100.0% of 40 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    11 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 91% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    42 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 92% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    9.1% of 44 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 34% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    94.8% of 58 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 12% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

482 daysahead of 25%

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 40 and 44 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
482 days

This one sits 20 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 950 of 70,985 by volume: 949 filed at least as many filings, and 70,035 filed no more.

Just above
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 42 filings
Just below
OneMain General Services Corporation 42 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 Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 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

Business Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1011.00 · 5 filings, 12% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 20 of 42 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 · 42 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

  • California 42
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 42 of 42 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Diego, CA 42
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 42 of 42 filings.

Who files for them

  1. ENG & NISHIMURA 42 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 42 of 42 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    3 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. Campus placement offices

    3 cases

  2. Job search websites

    3 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    3 cases

  4. On-campus recruiting

    1 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

    33%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    33%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    33%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

117 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 18.

  • 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 8 0 1
FY2009 3 0 1
FY2010 10 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 5 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 13 0 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 6 0 1
FY2019 7 0 0
FY2020 9 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 11 0 2
FY2025 11 0 0
FY2026 18 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 42. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-20108-44548 2020-09-17 certified Assistant Professor, CA $131,040
A-20108-44547 2020-09-17 certified Assistant Professor, CA $71,520
A-20108-44546 2020-09-17 certified Assistant Professor, CA $96,000
A-20105-42981 2020-09-11 certified Assistant Professor, CA $96,000
A-20104-42454 2020-09-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $85,008
A-20104-42425 2020-09-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $97,296
A-20101-41770 2020-09-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $131,040
A-20104-42595 2020-09-04 certified Assistant Professor, CA $131,028
The other 17
A-20104-42556 2020-09-04 certified Assistant Professor, CA $100,704
A-19197-31580 2019-09-20 certified Assistant Professor, CA $74,520
A-19197-31575 2019-09-20 certified Assistant Professor, CA $95,220
A-19197-31538 2019-09-20 certified Assistant Professor, CA $98,328
A-19136-06271 2019-07-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $131,088
A-19126-01543 2019-07-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $131,088
A-19126-01516 2019-07-09 certified Assistant Professor, CA $92,124
A-18220-05898 2018-10-24 certified Assistant Professor, CA $67,008
A-18206-01266 2018-09-14 certified Assistant Professor, CA $97,296
A-18206-01244 2018-09-14 certified Professor, CA $110,004
A-18197-97803 2018-09-06 certified Assistant Professor, CA $97,296
A-18197-97800 2018-09-06 certified Assistant Professor, CA $75,000
A-18183-93702 2018-08-31 certified Assistant Professor, CA $75,000
A-18108-64948 2018-07-02 withdrawn Assistant Professor, CA $75,000
A-17121-32377 2017-12-05 certified Assistant Professor, CA $122,376
A-17121-32257 2017-09-27 certified Assistant Professor, CA $72,828
A-17121-32331 2017-09-26 certified Assistant Professor, CA $79,260

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

  • China 15
  • Canada 6
  • India 3
  • Argentina 2
  • South Korea 2
  • Belgium 1

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 40
  • Master's 1
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 42

Schools

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2
  • BROCK UNIVERSITY 1
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1
  • EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 1
  • ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE CACHAN 1
  • FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • MATHEMATICS 4
  • CIVIL ENGINEERING 3
  • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 2
  • SPANISH LITERATURES AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES 2
  • ACCOUNTANCY 1
  • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 1

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 Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 5 of 42. 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 42 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 950. 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 40 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 CA. 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 25, 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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