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PERM sponsor, #698 of 70,985 by filings

The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago sponsors green cards: it filed 9 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 16, 2026. The University of Chicago has 7 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 20% of its filings
Main worksite
Chicago, IL · 100% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with The University of Chicago?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 51 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.0% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

56

#698 of 70,985

Certified

51

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$113,300

offered, per year

Median days

428

38 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 58 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

7

of 58 tracked cases. The other 51 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 29, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 7 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
7100%

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 58 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 58, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

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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 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 2 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 80,983 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)
56 published
7 pending
$113,300 median, n=56
Prevailing wage requests
49 published
9 pending
$64,487 median, n=46
H-1B labor condition applications
1,726 published
1 pending
$72,400 median, n=1,723

Its median H-1B wage is $72,400 across 1,723 LCAs, 36.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $113,300 across 56 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, read under the 4 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 The University of Chicago, 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: 1,726 LCAs filed by The University of Chicago, 1,536 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

888 positions for new employment, 114 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 888 · 58%
  • Change of employer 7e 114 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 380 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 105 · 7%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 13 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 40 · 3%

Shares of the 1,540 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 762 · 53%
  • Level II 405 · 28%
  • Level III 139 · 10%
  • Level IV 122 · 9%

Shares of the 1,428 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; 108 of 1,536 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 1,606 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,707. 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

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 1,707 · E-3 (Australia) 18 · H-1B1 (Chile) 1. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

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 51 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    9 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 89% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    422 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    6.6% of 486 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

    21% of 451 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 40% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.6% of 714 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 59% 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

428 daysahead of 78%

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 52 and 60 filings.

Their median wait
468 days
This one
428 days

This one sits 40 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 698 of 70,985 by volume: 697 filed at least as many filings, and 70,287 filed no more.

Just above
The Florida State University 56 filings
Just below
Proofpoint, Inc. 56 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 · 11 filings, 20% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 24 of 56 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 · 56 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

  • Illinois 56
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 56 of 56 filings.

Where the work is

  • Chicago, IL 56
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 56 of 56 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno & Lenz-Calvo Ltd. 54 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 54 of 56 filings, 96% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    27 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. The employer's website

    27 cases

  2. Job search websites

    27 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    27 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

    19%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    41%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    19%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    22%

  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

287 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 28.

  • 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 14 0 0
FY2009 15 0 1
FY2010 25 2 1
FY2011 24 0 0
FY2012 19 0 0
FY2013 12 0 1
FY2014 13 0 0
FY2015 10 0 0
FY2016 8 0 1
FY2017 15 0 0
FY2018 16 0 0
FY2019 21 0 1
FY2020 7 0 0
FY2021 8 0 0
FY2022 14 0 0
FY2023 3 0 0
FY2024 20 0 0
FY2025 15 0 5
FY2026 16 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 94. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22279-35010 2023-08-28 certified Lead Platform Engineer, IL $160,000
A-22202-92615 2023-05-05 certified Data Engineer, IL $95,625
A-22084-30959 2022-12-15 certified Assistant Professor, IL $210,000
A-21343-84296 2022-07-21 certified HPC Systems Administrator, IL $95,000
A-21183-11707 2022-05-10 certified Assistant Professor, IL $125,000
A-21281-56114 2022-04-25 certified Research Analyst, IL $56,950
A-21258-45032 2022-03-22 certified Assistant Professor, IL $130,000
A-21218-28408 2022-02-22 certified Assistant Professor, IL $85,000
The other 17
A-21190-14757 2022-01-13 certified Assistant Professor, IL $261,900
A-21173-05590 2022-01-04 certified Senior Programming Specialist, IL $120,000
A-21161-99117 2021-12-17 certified Assistant Professor, IL $191,000
A-21020-44075 2021-11-10 certified Staff Clinical Psychologist, IL $77,652
A-21145-91591 2021-10-27 certified BI Developer, IL $88,320
A-21116-78372 2021-10-12 certified Assistant Professor, IL $191,000
A-21116-78354 2021-10-08 certified Assistant Professor, IL $191,000
A-21116-78350 2021-10-08 certified Assistant Professor, IL $191,000
A-21103-73484 2021-10-06 certified Director Institutional Research and Strategic Insights, IL $135,000
A-21070-61204 2021-08-27 certified Project Coordinator, IL $82,000
A-21071-61575 2021-08-11 certified Assistant Professor, IL $191,000
A-20329-25279 2021-06-01 certified Research Specialist, IL $56,583
A-20282-08742 2021-05-17 certified Assistant Professor, IL $130,000
A-20262-01424 2021-05-06 certified Application Developer/Analyst, IL $91,437
A-20246-95077 2021-04-15 certified Senior Translational Core Coordinator, IL $62,000
A-20252-96908 2021-04-14 certified Senior Application Developer, IL $118,989
A-20191-74409 2021-02-23 certified Associate Director, Research Operations and Conduct, IL $92,602

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 16
  • Canada 13
  • China 8
  • Germany 8
  • France 4
  • Italy 4

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 61
  • Master's 14
  • Bachelor's 11
  • Other 8

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 88
  • J-1 3
  • F-1 2
  • TN 1

Schools

  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 7
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY 5
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 4
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 3
  • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • ECONOMICS 16
  • MEDICINE 8
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 5
  • FINANCE 4
  • STATISTICS 4
  • ACCOUNTING 2

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, 11 of 56. 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 56 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 698. 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 51 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 IL. 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 18, 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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