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PERM sponsor, #631 of 70,985 by filings

Sewon America, Inc.

Sewon America, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 34 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 26, 2026. Sewon America, Inc. has 32 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians · 42% of its filings
Main worksite
LaGrange, GA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping · NAICS 336370

Waiting on a case with Sewon America, Inc.?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 57 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 9.3% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

60

#631 of 70,985

Certified

56

1 denied

Approval

98.2%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$44,928

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 97 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

32

of 97 tracked cases. The other 65 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 15, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 32 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
32100%

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 97 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 97, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

Follow Sewon America, Inc.

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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.

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 31,475 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 3 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 79,834 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
60 published
32 pending
$44,928 median, n=60
Prevailing wage requests
60 published
4 pending
$48,485 median, n=60
H-1B labor condition applications
12 published
0 pending
$55,000 median, n=12

Its median H-1B wage is $55,000 across 12 LCAs, 22% higher than its median PERM wage of $44,928 across 60 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.

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; 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 Sewon America, 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: 12 LCAs filed by Sewon America, Inc., 12 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

8 positions for new employment, 2 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 8 · 67%
  • Change of employer 7e 2 · 17%
  • Continuing 7b 2 · 17%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%

Shares of the 12 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 6 · 50%
  • Level II 5 · 42%
  • Level III 1 · 8%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 12 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 12 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 August 7, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 12 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 12. 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

    98.3% of 57 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 21% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    34 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,027 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 13% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

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

Approval rate

98.2%ahead of 21%

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 56 and 66 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
500 days

This one sits 32 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 631 of 70,985 by volume: 630 filed at least as many filings, and 70,354 filed no more.

Just above
lululemon usa inc. 60 filings
Just below
University of Southern California 60 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 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, 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

Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians

SOC 17-3026.00 · 25 filings, 42% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 42 of 60 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

Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping

NAICS 336370 · 60 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

  • Georgia 60
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 60 of 60 filings.

Where the work is

  • LaGrange, GA 60
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 60 of 60 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Park and Associates PC 59 filings · 98.2% approved
  2. LAW OFFICE OF TAE K SONG 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 60 of 60 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The LaGrange Daily News

    57 cases

  2. Ledger-Enquirer

    1 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. Job search websites

    16 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    16 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    15 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    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

    43%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    29%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    14%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    14%

  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 2011

101 PERM decisions from FY2011 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 32.

  • 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
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 2 0 0
FY2016 2 0 0
FY2017 5 0 0
FY2018 6 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 8 0 0
FY2021 7 0 1
FY2022 6 0 0
FY2023 1 0 0
FY2024 2 0 1
FY2025 22 1 2
FY2026 32 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 38. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22166-72783 2023-03-14 certified Industrial Designer, GA $48,000
A-21299-63435 2022-08-24 certified QUALITY ENGINEER, GA $57,678
A-21256-43146 2022-06-15 certified Maintenance Technician, GA $43,600
A-21230-33003 2022-05-24 certified Mechanical Designer, GA $48,000
A-21111-76884 2022-03-25 certified Accounting Specialist, GA $38,501
A-21174-06136 2022-01-20 certified Manufacturing Engineer, GA $40,830
A-21035-48902 2021-12-28 certified Logistics Engineer, GA $42,952
A-20300-13225 2021-09-10 certified ENGINEERING COST ESTIMATOR, GA $40,000
The other 17
A-20192-74920 2021-09-03 certified Product Designer, GA $40,000
A-21041-51041 2021-08-05 withdrawn Materials Environmental Protection Specialist, GA $43,000
A-21032-47642 2021-08-05 certified Mechanical Engineer, GA $46,218
A-20210-81816 2021-07-27 certified International Procurement Specialist, GA $40,000
A-20303-14636 2021-06-01 certified Electrical Engineering Specialist, GA $42,203
A-20302-14072 2021-06-01 certified Industrial Engineering Specialist, GA $42,203
A-20211-82403 2021-04-02 certified International Logistics Analyst, GA $42,952
A-19255-57037 2020-08-06 certified Maintenance Technician, GA $56,638
A-19171-21102 2020-05-01 certified Master Die Maker, GA $47,778
A-19127-02251 2020-04-27 certified Electro-Mechanical Technician, GA $70,762
A-19294-73150 2020-04-09 certified Import Procurement Compliance Specialist, GA $48,000
A-19114-96954 2020-04-09 certified Process Engineering Technician, GA $49,920
A-19294-73075 2020-03-25 certified External Relations Specialist, GA $48,000
A-19294-73055 2020-03-23 certified Automotive Parts Product Designer, GA $48,000
A-19219-41439 2019-11-21 certified Production Controller - Press Department, GA $60,000
A-18305-36406 2019-06-27 certified Mechanical Designer, GA $48,000
A-18186-94410 2019-02-21 certified Production Engineering Technician, GA $62,795

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

  • South Korea 35
  • Mexico 3

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 25
  • Associate's 4
  • High School 4
  • Master's 3
  • Doctorate 1
  • None 1

Visa held when filed

  • E-2 21
  • H-1B 13
  • TN 3
  • F-1 1

Schools

  • CATHOLIC KWANDONG UNIVERSITY 2
  • AJOU UNIVERSITY 1
  • ANSAN UNIVERSITY 1
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
  • BUSAN HIGH SCHOOL 1
  • CHONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 7
  • ENGINEERING 4
  • GENERAL STUDIES 4
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 2
  • ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS 1
  • AERONAUTICS FOCUSING ON MAINTENANCE MECHANICS 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 #631 counts this page's cases only.

1 filing 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 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, 25 of 60. 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 60 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 631. 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 57 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 GA. 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 22, 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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