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PERM sponsor, #8,315 of 70,985 by filings
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park sponsors green cards: it filed 1 PERM case in the last 12 months, the newest on November 25, 2025.
- Main job
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 20% of its filings
- Main worksite
- College Park, MD · 100% of its filings
- Industry
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310
Waiting on a case with University of Maryland, College Park?
- 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
5
#8,315 of 70,985
Certified
4
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 4 decided
Median wage
$97,198
offered, per year
Median days
447
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 6 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow University of Maryland, College Park
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.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-300-25329-437136 Senior Lecturer of Arabic filed 2025-11-25 · 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
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 32,343 decisions in the same 90 days
Only 1 of their cases was 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 80,225 cases, and would be decided around March 24, 2027 (between March 4, 2027 and May 3, 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)
- 5 published
- 0 pending
- 5 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 12 published
- 0 pending
- $73,403 median, n=12
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 1,039 published
- 0 pending
- $85,000 median, n=1,034
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 University of Maryland, College Park, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26166-014600 Professor 2026-06-15 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-26085-732523 Senior Lecturer $71,153 per year 2026-03-26 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25273-349509 Assistant/Associate Professor of Accounting $61,680 per year 2025-09-30 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25231-251601 Assistant/Associate Professor in Finance $61,680 per year 2025-08-19 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-25198-181830 Information Analyst $139,298 per year 2025-07-17 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26289-305510 Postdoctoral Associate 2026-10-16 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26288-303488 Assistant Research Scientist 2026-10-15 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26288-303144 Assistant Research Scientist 2026-10-15 · WITHDRAWN
- I-200-26282-290816 Visiting Assistant Research Scientist 2026-10-09 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26281-287876 Post-Doctoral Associate 2026-10-08 · CERTIFIED
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: 1,039 LCAs filed by University of Maryland, College Park, 794 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
412 positions for new employment, 57 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 412 · 52%
- Change of employer 7e 57 · 7%
- Continuing 7b 162 · 20%
- Change in previous employment 7c 127 · 16%
- Concurrent employment 7d 6 · 1%
- Amended petition 7f 30 · 4%
Shares of the 794 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 570 · 72%
- Level II 87 · 11%
- Level III 118 · 15%
- Level IV 16 · 2%
Shares of the 791 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; 3 of 794 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 971 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,038. 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 1,038 · 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.
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.
PERM filings in the last 12 months
1 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 22% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
209 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 99% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Share of H-1B positions that were transfers
6.2% of 241 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026
Higher than 23% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.
Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV
21% of 241 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.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
447 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 5 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 480 days
- This one
- 447 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 8,315 of 70,985 by volume: 8,314 filed at least as many filings, and 62,670 filed no more.
- Just above
- Pella Corporation 5 filings
- Just below
- Adenza Inc. 5 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.
- #299 Univ of WI System 124 filings · 2 denied
- #478 Indiana University 78 filings · 3 denied
- #391 The Pennsylvania State University 93 filings · 1 denied
- #926 Harvard University 43 filings · none denied
- #698 The University of Chicago 56 filings · none denied
- #465 Purdue University 79 filings · 3 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
Business Teachers, Postsecondary
SOC 25-1011.00 · 1 filings, 20% of everything they file
- Computer Systems Analysts, Non R&D 15-12171
- Data Scientists 15-2051.001
- Software Developers, Non R&D 15-12951
How this is counted
These are the 4 occupations with the most filings, 4 of 5 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 · 5 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 5
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 5 of 5 filings.
Where the work is
- College Park, MD 5
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 5 of 5 filings.
Who files for them
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 5 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 5 of 5 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 4 cases
The Washington Post
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
- 4 cases
The employer's website
- 4 cases
Job search websites
- 4 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 25%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 50%
120 to 149 days
- 25%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
History
Year by year since 2024
5 PERM decisions from FY2024 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 2.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 1 | 0 | 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 Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 1 of 5. 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 5 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 8,315. 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.