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South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University sponsors green cards: it filed 5 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 15, 2026. South Dakota State University has 5 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · 16% of its filings
Main worksite
Brookings, SD · 100% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with South Dakota State University?

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Too few cases for a rate

16 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

19

#2,336 of 70,985

Certified

16

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 16 decided

Median wage

$83,254

offered, per year

Median days

426

40 faster 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 27 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

5

of 27 tracked cases. The other 22 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed February 4, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 5 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5100%

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 27 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 27, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

Follow South Dakota 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.

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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-300-26258-236101 Assistant Professor of Statistics filed 2026-09-15 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26246-214140 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering filed 2026-09-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26175-046566 Assistant Professor of Computer Science filed 2026-06-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26142-943615 Assistant Professor of Statistics filed 2026-05-22 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26035-619551 Assistant Professor/Land Valuation Extension Specialist filed 2026-02-04 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-25233-258713 Assistant Professor of Controlled Environment Agriculture filed 2025-08-21 · CERTIFIED
  • G-300-25225-239307 Assistant Professor of Dairy Production filed 2025-08-13 · CERTIFIED
  • G-300-25174-121672 Assistant Professor of Architecture filed 2025-06-23 · 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

  1. Every employer

    median of 32,341 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 79,683 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)
19 published
5 pending
$83,254 median, n=19
Prevailing wage requests
29 published
7 pending
$57,250 median, n=25
H-1B labor condition applications
141 published
0 pending
$81,687 median, n=141

Its median H-1B wage ($81,687 across 141 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($83,254 across 19 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 South Dakota State University, 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.

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: 141 LCAs filed by South Dakota State University, 129 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

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

  • New employment 7a 80 · 62%
  • Change of employer 7e 15 · 12%
  • Continuing 7b 26 · 20%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 3 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 5 · 4%

Shares of the 129 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 106 · 87%
  • Level II 13 · 11%
  • Level III 2 · 2%
  • Level IV 1 · 1%

Shares of the 122 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; 7 of 129 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 138 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 141. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    5 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 80% of the 14,057 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    38 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 91% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    6.7% of 45 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 25% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    2.3% of 44 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 10% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    97.5% of 119 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 36% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

426 daysmiddle of 16 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 16 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 between 19 and 20 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
426 days

This one sits 38 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 2,336 of 70,985 by volume: 2,335 filed at least as many filings, and 68,649 filed no more.

Just above
TECHWAVE CONSULTING INC 19 filings
Just below
Ventois, Inc 19 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 Agricultural Sciences 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

Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1041.00 · 3 filings, 16% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 12 of 19 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 · 19 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

  • South Dakota 19
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 19 of 19 filings.

Where the work is

  • Brookings, SD 19
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 19 of 19 filings.

History

Year by year since 2008

86 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 15.

  • 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 5 1 0
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 11 1 3
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 2 0 0
FY2013 2 1 0
FY2014 2 0 2
FY2015 7 0 0
FY2016 4 0 0
FY2017 8 0 0
FY2018 5 0 0
FY2019 3 0 1
FY2020 2 0 0
FY2021 2 0 0
FY2022 1 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 3 0 1
FY2025 2 0 2
FY2026 11 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 26. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-21287-58916 2022-07-08 certified Assistant Professor of Architecture, SD $65,000
A-21098-72130 2021-09-21 certified Assistant Professor of Accounting, SD $144,936
A-20155-61661 2020-12-22 certified Assistant Professor of Political Science, SD $63,000
A-20115-47075 2020-09-23 certified Assistant Professor of Statistics, SD $84,243
A-19263-61060 2020-04-13 certified Assistant Professor of Agronomy, SD $79,616
A-19163-17545 2019-09-25 certified Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SD $90,435
A-17283-96626 2019-09-09 certified Assistant Professor of Counseling and Human Development, SD $65,000
A-19189-27656 2019-07-29 withdrawn Assistant Professor of Statistics, SD $81,272
The other 17
A-18288-29253 2019-04-08 certified Assistant Professor of Sociology and Rural Studies, SD $65,390
A-17270-91827 2018-04-12 certified Assistant Professor of Pavement/Materials Engineering, SD $80,845
A-17286-98382 2018-03-27 certified Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, SD $76,457
A-17279-95705 2018-03-23 certified Assistant Professor of Recreation Administration, SD $64,500
A-17221-74029 2018-02-20 certified Assistant Professor of Spanish, SD $55,417
A-17128-35099 2018-01-30 certified Assistant Professor of Marketing, SD $115,000
A-17144-42478 2017-09-20 certified Assistant Professor of Geography, SD $61,209
A-17159-48521 2017-09-20 certified Assistant Professor of Geography, SD $63,500
A-17131-37072 2017-08-22 certified Assistant Professor of Consumer Affairs, SD $65,297
A-17067-10839 2017-06-19 certified Assistant Professor of Dairy Science, SD $71,431
A-17054-06281 2017-05-17 certified Assistant Professor of Dairy Science, SD $71,431
A-16259-53082 2017-03-22 certified Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, SD $90,212
A-16179-26419 2016-11-16 certified Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering, SD $83,141
A-16140-12224 2016-10-20 certified Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, SD $102,000
A-16039-70584 2016-06-08 certified Assistant Professor of Construction Management, SD $71,244
A-16012-59867 2016-05-20 certified Assistant Professor of Animal Science, SD $67,800
A-15282-26917 2016-03-23 certified Assistant Professor of Animal Science-Swine Nutrition, SD $69,800

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

  • Canada 5
  • Iran 4
  • China 2
  • South Korea 2
  • Taiwan 2
  • Germany 1

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 26

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 18
  • F-1 7
  • J-1 1

Schools

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • MCMASTER UNIVERSITY 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 2
  • VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY 2
  • CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY 1
  • KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • CIVIL ENGINEERING 3
  • GEOGRAPHY 2
  • ACCOUNTING 1
  • AGRONOMY 1
  • ANIMAL SCIENCE 1
  • ARCHITECTURE 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 Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, 3 of 19. 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 19 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 2,336. 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 16 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 SD. 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 24, 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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