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PERM sponsor, #910 of 70,985 by filings

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 21, 2026. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS has 14 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Family Medicine Physicians · 16% of its filings
Main worksite
Pittsburgh, PA · 70% of its filings
Industry
Offices of Physicians · NAICS 62111

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This rate is level with the field

Over 42 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.4% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

43

#910 of 70,985

Certified

42

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$235,411

offered, per year

Median days

440

26 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 60 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

14

of 60 tracked cases. The other 46 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed June 25, 2026, 3 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 60 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 60, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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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 32,341 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
43 published
14 pending
$235,411 median, n=43
Prevailing wage requests
51 published
9 pending
$68,016 median, n=47
H-1B labor condition applications
735 published
1 pending
$255,725 median, n=735

Its median H-1B wage is $255,725 across 735 LCAs, 8.6% higher than its median PERM wage of $235,411 across 43 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 PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS, 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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 735 LCAs filed by UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS, 669 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

280 positions for new employment, 79 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 280 · 42%
  • Change of employer 7e 79 · 12%
  • Continuing 7b 158 · 24%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 106 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 3 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 48 · 7%

Shares of the 669 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 76 · 12%
  • Level II 61 · 10%
  • Level III 133 · 21%
  • Level IV 369 · 58%

Shares of the 639 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; 30 of 669 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 19, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 685 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 727. 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 727 · E-3 (Australia) 8. 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 42 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    19 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 14,055 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    186 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    15% of 226 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 53% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    72% of 224 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 86% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    96.8% of 220 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 29% 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

440 daysahead of 73%

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 41 and 46 filings.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
440 days

This one sits 26 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 910 of 70,985 by volume: 909 filed at least as many filings, and 70,075 filed no more.

Just above
Dietz and Watson, Inc. 44 filings
Just below
SL TENNESSEE LLC 43 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 Family Medicine Physicians, 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

Family Medicine Physicians

SOC 29-1215.00 · 7 filings, 16% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 26 of 43 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

Offices of Physicians

NAICS 62111, 6211 · 20 filings

  • General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 6221, 622110, 6221117
  • Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 6211116
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

  • Pennsylvania 43
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 43 of 43 filings.

Where the work is

  • Pittsburgh, PA 30
  • Altoona, PA 4
  • Harrisburg, PA 4
  • New Castle, PA 2
  • Erie, PA 1
  • Natrona Heights, PA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 42 of 43 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Sostrin Immigration Lawyers, LLP 20 filings
  2. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 12 filings
  3. BARRY J WALKER, ATTY P A 6 filings
  4. McCandlish Holton, PC 4 filings
  5. Clark Hill PLC 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 43 of 43 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    31 cases

  2. The Patriot-News

    3 cases

  3. Altoona Mirror

    1 cases

  4. Williamsport Sun-Gazette

    1 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

    36 cases

  2. Job search websites

    36 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    34 cases

  4. Campus placement offices

    2 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

    17%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    69%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    5.6%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    8.3%

  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

319 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 25.

  • 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 0
FY2009 7 0 0
FY2010 23 2 0
FY2011 20 1 0
FY2012 13 1 0
FY2013 24 0 0
FY2014 10 0 0
FY2015 20 0 0
FY2016 12 0 0
FY2017 19 0 0
FY2018 23 0 0
FY2019 19 0 0
FY2020 22 0 0
FY2021 20 0 0
FY2022 14 0 0
FY2023 17 0 1
FY2024 10 0 0
FY2025 14 0 0
FY2026 18 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 147. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22307-51311 2023-09-27 certified Hospitalist, PA $242,250
A-22307-51283 2023-09-27 certified Hospitalist, PA $242,250
A-22307-51201 2023-09-27 certified Hospitalist, PA $242,250
A-22306-50813 2023-09-27 certified Hospitalist, PA $242,250
A-22195-88873 2023-06-29 certified Cardiologist, PA $325,000
A-23128-39201 2023-05-23 withdrawn Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, PA $475,000
A-22188-84993 2023-05-05 certified Pediatric Ophthalmologist, PA $285,000
A-22200-90958 2023-04-13 certified Critical Care Medicine Physician, PA $190,000
The other 17
A-22131-53830 2023-04-07 certified Anatomic Pathologist, PA $170,000
A-22179-80329 2023-04-07 certified Associate Director for the Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Laboratory, PA $130,000
A-22159-68477 2023-03-30 certified Emergency Medical Physician, PA $343,327
A-22132-54566 2023-03-06 certified Vascular Surgeon, PA $315,000
A-22131-53890 2023-03-06 certified Acute Pain/Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, PA $291,100
A-22097-37689 2023-02-24 certified Geriatrician, PA $200,000
A-22090-33824 2023-01-23 certified Interventional Radiologist, PA $336,721
A-22020-00726 2022-11-22 certified Urologist, PA $450,000
A-22019-00105 2022-11-22 certified Cardiologist (Electrophysiologist), PA $324,998
A-21322-75432 2022-10-20 certified Cardiac Surgeon, PA $670,000
A-22010-95924 2022-09-26 certified NEUROLOGIST (IONM MONITORING-FACULTY), PA $260,000
A-21298-63036 2022-05-26 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250
A-21298-63032 2022-05-26 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250
A-21298-62998 2022-05-03 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250
A-21298-62897 2022-05-03 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250
A-21298-62881 2022-05-03 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250
A-21287-58829 2022-05-03 certified Hospitalists, PA $242,250

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 65
  • Pakistan 20
  • Canada 14
  • Nepal 5
  • Turkey 4
  • Italy 3

Worker's education

  • Other 142
  • Doctorate 4
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 139
  • O-1 3
  • E-3 1
  • TPS 1

Schools

  • KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY LAHORE PAKISTAN 6
  • DR. NTR UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES 5
  • NTR UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES 4
  • CAIRO UNIVERSITY 3
  • GUJARAT UNIVERSITY 3
  • MAHARASHTRA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, NASHIK 3

Fields of study

  • MEDICINE 85
  • MEDICINE & SURGERY 29
  • MEDICINE SURGERY 14
  • MEDICINE AND SURGERY 9
  • MEDICINE, OBSTETRICS & SURGERY 3
  • ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY 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 Family Medicine Physicians, 7 of 43. 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 43 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 910. 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 42 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 PA. 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 24, 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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