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PERM sponsor, #1,199 of 70,985 by filings

University of Colorado

University of Colorado sponsors green cards: it filed 17 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 29, 2026. University of Colorado has 14 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 24% of its filings
Main worksite
Boulder, CO · 85% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with University of Colorado?

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

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This rate is level with the field

Over 32 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 15.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

34

#1,199 of 70,985

Certified

31

1 denied

Approval

96.9%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$93,000

offered, per year

Median days

466

at the field median

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 46 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

14

of 46 tracked cases. The other 32 have been decided.

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

Where those 14 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
14100%

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 46 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 46, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

Follow University of Colorado

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-300-26180-060678 Assistant Teaching Professor, Public Health filed 2026-06-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26177-056103 Assistant Teaching Professor (Economics) filed 2026-06-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26176-049750 Assistant Professor - Cybersecurity filed 2026-06-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26160-998381 Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering filed 2026-06-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26155-984142 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering filed 2026-06-04 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26154-976761 Senior Research & Grants Business Systems Analyst filed 2026-06-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26149-964104 Assistant Professor of Environmental Media Studies filed 2026-05-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26149-962696 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering filed 2026-05-29 · 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

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 79,966 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)
34 published
14 pending
$93,000 median, n=34
Prevailing wage requests
49 published
1 pending
$47,240 median, n=46
H-1B labor condition applications
879 published
1 pending
$79,568 median, n=877

Its median H-1B wage is $79,568 across 877 LCAs, 14.4% lower than its median PERM wage of $93,000 across 34 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 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 University of Colorado, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26264-249751 Assistant Teaching Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies 2026-09-21 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26179-057133 Assistant Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences 2026-06-28 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26178-056864 Assistant Professor of Computer Science 2026-06-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26169-032141 Assistant Teaching Professor 2026-06-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26132-896834 Lead Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer 2026-05-12 · 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. 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: 879 LCAs filed by University of Colorado, 712 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

340 positions for new employment, 54 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 340 · 48%
  • Change of employer 7e 54 · 8%
  • Continuing 7b 226 · 32%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 7 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 87 · 12%

Shares of the 712 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 402 · 57%
  • Level II 164 · 23%
  • Level III 95 · 13%
  • Level IV 47 · 7%

Shares of the 708 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; 4 of 712 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 822 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 878. 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 878 · E-3 (Australia) 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

    96.9% of 32 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 13% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    17 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    197 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    8.0% of 226 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 29% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    23% of 226 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 41% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

Approval rate

96.9%ahead of 13%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

466 daysahead of 48%

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 33 and 36 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
466 days

This one sits 3 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 1,199 of 70,985 by volume: 1,198 filed at least as many filings, and 69,786 filed no more.

Just above
Afterpay US, Inc. 34 filings
Just below
University of California, Los Angeles 34 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 · 8 filings, 24% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 22 of 34 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, 6113 · 34 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

  • Colorado 34
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 34 of 34 filings.

Where the work is

  • Boulder, CO 29
  • Colorado Springs, CO 4
  • Grand Junction, CO 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 34 of 34 filings.

History

Year by year since 2008

257 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 26.

  • 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 6 0 0
FY2009 8 0 0
FY2010 26 0 0
FY2011 4 0 0
FY2012 12 1 3
FY2013 6 0 0
FY2014 8 0 2
FY2015 14 0 4
FY2016 18 0 0
FY2017 16 0 1
FY2018 23 0 0
FY2019 16 1 0
FY2020 19 0 0
FY2021 19 0 0
FY2022 5 1 0
FY2023 10 0 0
FY2024 7 1 0
FY2025 10 0 1
FY2026 14 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 129. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22208-95792 2023-08-09 certified Instructor, CO $84,000
A-22197-89549 2023-07-26 certified Assistant Professor Information Systems, CO $125,000
A-22199-90424 2023-07-14 certified Assistant Professor (Human Physiology & Nutrition), CO $72,500
A-22028-04407 2023-06-15 certified Instructor (Teaching Assistant Professor), CO $77,250
A-22181-82161 2023-05-31 certified Assistant Professor - Finance, CO $142,000
A-22197-89573 2023-04-14 certified Assistant Professor - Mathematics, CO $71,321
A-22130-53009 2023-04-10 certified Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, CO $110,000
A-22117-47061 2023-03-14 certified Assistant Professor for Native American/Indidenous Linguistics, CO $87,550
The other 17
A-22139-58025 2023-02-24 certified Software Engineer/Analyst, CO $88,600
A-22080-28621 2022-11-25 certified Instructor of Japanese Language, CO $55,620
A-21207-22591 2022-03-01 denied ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER, AND ENERGY ENGINEERING, CO $116,000
A-21172-04824 2021-12-22 certified Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, CO $86,000
A-21135-87160 2021-11-18 certified Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, CO $90,000
A-20232-90157 2021-10-22 certified ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW, CO $132,500
A-21098-71820 2021-10-08 certified Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, CO $100,000
A-21104-74223 2021-10-05 certified Asst Prof Coupled Human Natural Systems Modeling & Analysis, CO $96,000
A-21048-53180 2021-08-06 certified Assistant Professor of Microeconomics, CO $137,000
A-20238-91981 2021-08-03 certified Professor of Public Relations and Chair, Dept of Adv, Public Relations, and Desi, CO $175,450
A-21055-55298 2021-07-29 certified Assistant Professor of Marketing, CO $195,000
A-20329-25006 2021-07-22 certified Assistant Professor in Analytics & Information Management, CO $163,000
A-20336-26964 2021-07-16 certified Assistant Professor of Marketing, CO $190,000
A-20272-04922 2021-07-13 certified Assistant Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engr., CO $110,000
A-20231-89579 2021-07-13 certified ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, CO $110,000
A-20357-36005 2021-07-01 certified INSTRUCTOR, CO $75,000
A-20258-99357 2021-06-22 certified Instructor, CO $56,900

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 18
  • El Salvador 15
  • China 14
  • Canada 9
  • Italy 8
  • South Korea 7

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 97
  • None 15
  • Master's 12
  • Bachelor's 4
  • Other 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 78
  • F-1 17
  • TPS 15
  • J-1 3
  • NOT IN USA 1
  • O-1 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 4
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 3
  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 3
  • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER 3
  • CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 14
  • MATHEMATICS 6
  • ECONOMICS 5
  • PHYSICS 4
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • CHEMISTRY 3

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, 8 of 34. 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 34 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 1,199. 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 32 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 CO. 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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