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PERM sponsor, #4,527 of 70,985 by filings

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Massachusetts, Amherst sponsors green cards: it filed 7 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 5, 2026. University of Massachusetts, Amherst has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 30% of its filings
Main worksite
Amherst, MA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with University of Massachusetts, Amherst?

  • When it'll likely be decided
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Too few cases for a rate

10 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

10

#4,527 of 70,985

Certified

10

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 10 decided

Median wage

$85,000

offered, per year

Median days

423

43 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 17 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 17 tracked cases. The other 11 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed June 17, 2026, 4 months ago.

Where those 6 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
6100%

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 17 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 17, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

Follow University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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-300-26278-279651 Senior Lecturer (Department of Finance) filed 2026-10-05 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26252-223305 Assist. Professor (Depart. of Women, Gender & Sexuality St) filed 2026-09-09 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26244-207408 Assistant Professor (Department of Mathematics & Statistics) filed 2026-09-01 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26183-074048 Assistant Professor (Department HTM) filed 2026-07-02 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26181-065869 Assistant Professor (Department of Economics) filed 2026-06-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26168-024350 Lecturer (Manning College of Information & Comp. Sciences) filed 2026-06-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26006-537209 Permanent Lecturer Department of Mathematics and Statistics filed 2026-01-06 · CERTIFIED
  • G-100-25176-126880 Director of Computer Systems Administration (DCSA) filed 2025-06-25 · CERTIFIED

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 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 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)
10 published
6 pending
$85,000 median, n=10
Prevailing wage requests
19 published
1 pending
$84,000 median, n=19
H-1B labor condition applications
376 published
0 pending
$81,128 median, n=376

Its median H-1B wage is $81,128 across 376 LCAs, 4.6% lower than its median PERM wage of $85,000 across 10 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 Massachusetts, Amherst, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-26293-312284 Assistant Professor (Department of Resource Economics) 2026-10-20 · IN PROCESS
  • P-100-26261-244931 Assistant Professor (Department of Marketing) 2026-09-18 · WITHDRAWN
  • P-100-26132-899749 Assistant Professor (Department HTM) 2026-05-12 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26098-770194 Senior Lecturer (Department of Finance) 2026-04-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-26071-698604 Assistant Professor (Department of Mathematics & Statistics) $79,350 per year 2026-03-12 · 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. 90% 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: 376 LCAs filed by University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 302 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

190 positions for new employment, 29 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 190 · 63%
  • Change of employer 7e 29 · 10%
  • Continuing 7b 56 · 19%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 5 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 1 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 21 · 7%

Shares of the 302 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 13 · 46%
  • Level II 13 · 46%
  • Level III 1 · 4%
  • Level IV 1 · 4%

Shares of the 28 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; 274 of 302 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 358 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 376. 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

    7 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 86% of the 14,050 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    89 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 96% of the 27,833 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 105 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 45% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

423 daysmiddle of 10 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 10 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 10 filings each.

Their median wait
478 days
This one
423 days

This one sits 55 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 4,527 of 70,985 by volume: 4,526 filed at least as many filings, and 66,458 filed no more.

Just above
Rockstar Games, Inc. 10 filings
Just below
University of California, San Francisco 10 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 · 3 filings, 30% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 10 of 10 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 · 10 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

  • Massachusetts 10
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 10 of 10 filings.

Where the work is

  • Amherst, MA 10
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 10 of 10 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Curran, Berger & Kludt 5 filings
  2. Green and Spiegel LLC 5 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 10 of 10 filings, 100% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2008

149 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 8 0 1
FY2009 11 0 0
FY2010 15 0 0
FY2011 4 0 0
FY2012 14 0 0
FY2013 10 0 0
FY2014 13 0 0
FY2015 8 0 0
FY2016 9 1 0
FY2017 6 0 0
FY2018 1 0 0
FY2019 8 0 0
FY2020 11 0 0
FY2021 13 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 4 0 0
FY2024 2 0 0
FY2025 2 0 0
FY2026 6 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 55. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22252-18889 2023-08-02 certified Senior Data & Visualization Analyst, MA $75,000
A-22137-56458 2023-02-17 certified Database Administrator, MA $67,699
A-22082-29368 2023-01-23 certified Lecturer (College of Information and Computer Science), MA $107,000
A-22081-28940 2023-01-19 certified Law and Public Policy Librarian (Librarian IV), MA $81,569
A-21257-44029 2022-05-17 certified Assistant Professor in Organizational Studies (Department of Management), MA $160,000
A-21097-71153 2021-11-04 certified Senior Software Engineer, MA $87,394
A-20259-99705 2021-06-17 certified Assistant Professor of Econometrics (Department of Resource Economics), MA $120,000
A-20314-18628 2021-06-07 certified Assistant Professors (College of Nursing), MA $80,000
The other 17
A-20314-18589 2021-06-07 certified Assistant Professors (College of Nursing), MA $82,500
A-20226-88288 2021-04-23 certified Lecturer (Department of Environmental Conservation), MA $69,000
A-20119-47904 2021-03-31 certified Assistant Professors of Biostatistics (Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology), MA $83,000
A-20204-79637 2021-03-19 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Operations and Information Management), MA $155,000
A-20162-63779 2021-03-11 certified Lecturer (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), MA $65,238
A-20106-43525 2020-12-23 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), MA $100,500
A-20119-48351 2020-12-09 certified Assistant Professor of Strategic Communications (Department of Journalism), MA $80,000
A-20090-36793 2020-11-20 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Linguistics), MA $75,000
A-20131-52578 2020-11-19 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Communication), MA $82,000
A-20117-47242 2020-11-19 certified Assistant Professors (Department of Anthropology), MA $75,000
A-20062-25444 2020-10-07 certified Lecturer A (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), MA $87,500
A-20114-46544 2020-09-30 certified Assistant Professors (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), MA $98,000
A-20097-39830 2020-09-23 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), MA $76,000
A-19346-94898 2020-06-19 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Economics), MA $120,000
A-19347-95251 2020-06-17 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Finance), MA $205,000
A-19268-62889 2020-04-14 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Management), MA $157,500
A-19268-62816 2020-03-25 certified Assistant Professor (Department of Operations and Information Management), MA $152,000

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

  • China 12
  • Canada 8
  • South Korea 6
  • India 4
  • Iran 3
  • Spain 3

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 44
  • Master's 10
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 51
  • F-1 2
  • J-1 1
  • J-2 1

Schools

  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2
  • STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN 2
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY 1

Fields of study

  • ECONOMICS 6
  • ACCOUNTING 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
  • LINGUISTICS 2
  • ANTHROPOLOGY 1
  • BIOSTATISTICS 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, 3 of 10. 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 10 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 4,527. 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 10 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 MA. 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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