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PERM sponsor, #11,712 of 70,985 by filings
University of Maryland
- Main job
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary · 25% of its filings
- Main worksite
- College Park, MD · 75% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with University of Maryland?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
4 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
4
#11,712 of 70,985
Certified
4
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 4 decided
Median wage
$99,819
offered, per year
Median days
420
middle of 4 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 1 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow University of Maryland
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.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 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)
- 4 published
- 0 pending
- 4 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 1 published
- 0 pending
- 1 wage, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 49 published
- 0 pending
- $102,925 median, n=49
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 Maryland, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-23338-542353 Associate Clinical Professor $61,930 per year 2023-12-04 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23026-729895 Assistant Professor 2023-01-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22336-618240 Assistant Professor 2022-12-02 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-21119-272594 Assistant Professor 2021-04-29 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-25042-683393 Faculty Specialist $78,006.82 per year 2025-02-11 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25016-622842 Visiting Assistant Research Scientist $110,871.44 per year 2025-01-16 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-25008-604673 Visiting Associate Research Scientist $120,000 per year 2025-01-08 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-24348-542607 Assistant Research Scientist $110,871.44 per year 2024-12-13 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-24348-542437 Assistant Research Scientist $110,871.44 per year 2024-12-13 · WITHDRAWN
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: 49 LCAs filed by University of Maryland, 39 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
7 positions for new employment, 4 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 7 · 18%
- Change of employer 7e 4 · 10%
- Continuing 7b 10 · 26%
- Change in previous employment 7c 14 · 36%
- Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 3%
- Amended petition 7f 3 · 8%
Shares of the 39 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 7 · 18%
- Level II 13 · 34%
- Level III 16 · 42%
- Level IV 2 · 5%
Shares of the 38 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; 1 of 39 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 February 11, 2025. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 42 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 49. 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.
How it compares with other sponsors
Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
4 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 52% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years
98.4% of 820 USCIS decisions
Higher than 48% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
420 daysmiddle of 4 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 4 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 453 days
- This one
- 420 days
This one sits 33 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 11,712 of 70,985 by volume: 11,711 filed at least as many filings, and 59,273 filed no more.
- Just above
- Provin USA Marble&Granite LLC 4 filings
- Just below
- Van Buren County Hospital, Inc. 4 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #11,711 Provin USA Marble&Granite LLC 4 filings · none denied
- #11,713 Van Buren County Hospital, Inc. 4 filings · none denied
- #11,710 Aroha Technologies Inc 4 filings · none denied
- #11,714 Quality Lawn & Garden, Inc. 4 filings · none denied
- #11,709 Bridge IT, Inc. 4 filings · none denied
- #11,715 SouthernLuxe Living Inc 4 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Education Administrators, Postsecondary, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #436 Michigan State University 83 filings · none denied
- #1,841 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS 24 filings · none denied
- #4,441 Case Western Reserve University 10 filings · 2 denied
- #70,068 College for Creative Studies 1 filings · none denied
- #3,537 FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY 13 filings · 1 denied
- #10,206 Florida Institute of Technology 4 filings · none denied
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
Education Administrators, Postsecondary
SOC 11-9033 · 1 filings, 25% of everything they file
- Education Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1081.001
- General and Operations Managers 11-10211
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 25-10111
How this is counted
These are the 4 occupations with the most filings, 4 of 4 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 · 4 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
- Maryland 4
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 4 of 4 filings.
Where the work is
- College Park, MD 3
- Rockville, MD 1
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 4 of 4 filings.
Who files for them
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen Loewy, LLP 3 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 3 of 4 filings, 75% of the total.
History
Year by year since 2008
65 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2025, busiest in FY2010 with 10.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2008 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2010 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2016 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
The 25 most recent of 31. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22280-35224 | 2023-07-11 | withdrawn | Assistant Professor – Finance, MD | $263,837 |
| A-23010-84774 | 2023-03-06 | withdrawn | Business Manager, MD | $117,790 |
| A-22339-67143 | 2023-03-06 | withdrawn | Assistant Director, MD | $99,819 |
| A-20280-08012 | 2021-05-21 | certified | Senior IT Security Engineer, MD | $101,906 |
| A-20197-76879 | 2021-04-14 | certified | Director, Maryland International Incubator, MD | $134,670 |
| A-20113-45942 | 2020-10-27 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $145,000 |
| A-20113-45824 | 2020-10-27 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $145,000 |
| A-20045-19392 | 2020-07-20 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $180,000 |
The other 17
| A-19324-85886 | 2020-06-26 | certified | Senior Software Developer, MD | $90,938 |
| A-19309-79459 | 2020-04-21 | certified | Senior Lecturer, MD | $99,691 |
| A-19260-59470 | 2020-03-13 | certified | Assistant Professor û Decision Operations and Information Technologies, MD | $168,936 |
| A-19142-08550 | 2019-12-09 | certified | Database Administrator, MD | $74,568 |
| A-18296-32523 | 2019-03-12 | certified | Clinical Assistant Professor – Real Estate Development, MD | $67,000 |
| A-18178-91789 | 2018-09-05 | certified | Assistant Professor, Marketing, MD | $170,000 |
| A-18116-68465 | 2018-08-13 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $170,000 |
| A-18116-68363 | 2018-08-01 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $170,000 |
| A-18057-47378 | 2018-07-19 | certified | Agent - Family and Consumer Sciences, MD | $55,288 |
| A-18106-63647 | 2018-07-16 | certified | Senior Lecturer, Full time, MD | $72,488 |
| A-18058-47624 | 2018-06-20 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $136,500 |
| A-17339-17781 | 2018-05-18 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $220,000 |
| A-16355-83027 | 2017-07-27 | certified | Senior Lecturer in Arabic, MD | $49,500 |
| A-17086-17517 | 2017-05-19 | certified | Web Services Developer, MD | $99,000 |
| A-17038-00111 | 2017-05-17 | certified | Assistant Professor, MD | $140,000 |
| A-16125-05677 | 2017-03-06 | certified | Senior Lecturer, Full Time, MD | $40,000 |
| A-16222-40386 | 2016-11-15 | certified | Software Engineer, MD | $101,421 |
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 6
- China 4
- Italy 3
- Argentina 2
- South Korea 2
- Canada 1
Worker's education
- Doctorate 19
- Master's 9
- Bachelor's 3
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 28
- J-1 2
- G-4 1
Schools
- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK 3
- UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 2
- ANNA UNIVERSITY 1
- ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI 1
- BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL 1
- BOSTON COLLEGE 1
Fields of study
- ECONOMICS 5
- FINANCE 2
- INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 2
- ACCOUNTING 1
- ARABIC LANGUAGE 1
- BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 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 Education Administrators, Postsecondary, 1 of 4. 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 4 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 11,712. 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 4 decided cases
- That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
- 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 MD. 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.