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University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina sponsors green cards: it filed 22 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on August 24, 2026. University of South Carolina has 21 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 14% of its filings
Main worksite
Columbia, SC · 82% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with University of South Carolina?

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Too few cases for a rate

25 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

28

#1,512 of 70,985

Certified

24

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 25 decided

Median wage

$86,000

offered, per year

Median days

386

80 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 39 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

21

of 39 tracked cases. The other 18 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 15, 2026, 5 months ago.

Where those 21 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
21100%

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 39 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 39, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 25, 2026

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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-300-26236-188551 Assistant Professor, Analytical/Environmental Chemistry filed 2026-08-24 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26195-098333 Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering Program filed 2026-07-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26194-094594 Assistant Professor/Department of Mechanical Engineering filed 2026-07-13 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26180-058677 Assistant Professor - Inorganic Chemistry filed 2026-06-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26180-058580 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology filed 2026-06-29 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26177-054858 Assistant Professor of Epidemiology filed 2026-06-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26176-050014 Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence (SPTE) filed 2026-06-25 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26176-049861 Asst. Prof/Sustainability in Sports & Ent Mgmt filed 2026-06-25 · 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

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 79,966 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)
28 published
21 pending
$86,000 median, n=28
Prevailing wage requests
50 published
6 pending
$59,210 median, n=49
H-1B labor condition applications
314 published
0 pending
$62,660 median, n=314

Its median H-1B wage is $62,660 across 314 LCAs, 27.1% lower than its median PERM wage of $86,000 across 28 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 3 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 South Carolina, 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.

Likely cap-exempt, by inference. 79% 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: 314 LCAs filed by University of South Carolina, 277 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

176 positions for new employment, 19 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 176 · 64%
  • Change of employer 7e 19 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 64 · 23%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 8 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 11 · 4%

Shares of the 277 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 162 · 74%
  • Level II 29 · 13%
  • Level III 17 · 8%
  • Level IV 11 · 5%

Shares of the 219 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; 58 of 277 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 17, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 302 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 314. 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

    22 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 14,049 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    92 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

    13% of 106 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 47% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    8.9% of 101 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 25% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    100.0% of 99 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 80% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

386 daysmiddle of 25 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 25 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 between 27 and 29 filings.

Their median wait
458 days
This one
386 days

This one sits 72 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 1,512 of 70,985 by volume: 1,511 filed at least as many filings, and 69,473 filed no more.

Just above
Nemak USA, Inc. 28 filings
Just below
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC 28 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 · 4 filings, 14% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 16 of 28 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, 6113 · 28 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

  • South Carolina 28
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 28 of 28 filings.

Where the work is

  • Columbia, SC 23
  • Spartanburg, SC 3
  • Aiken, SC 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 28 of 28 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Burr & Forman LLP 8 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 8 of 28 filings, 29% of the total.

History

Year by year since 2008

219 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 28.

  • 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 12 0 0
FY2009 5 0 3
FY2010 26 2 0
FY2011 3 0 0
FY2012 15 0 1
FY2013 4 1 0
FY2014 19 0 0
FY2015 11 0 0
FY2016 15 0 1
FY2017 11 0 0
FY2018 17 0 0
FY2019 11 0 0
FY2020 13 0 0
FY2021 12 0 1
FY2022 3 0 0
FY2023 3 0 2
FY2024 11 0 2
FY2025 7 1 0
FY2026 6 0 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 89. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-23146-48147 2023-05-31 withdrawn Assistant Professor, SC $82,000
A-22311-53323 2023-05-15 withdrawn Assistant Professor, SC $61,510
A-22123-49552 2023-04-28 certified Assistant Professor, SC $59,010
A-22125-50786 2023-03-28 certified Assistant Professor, SC $59,010
A-22159-68032 2023-03-23 certified Assistant Professor, SC $70,640
A-21277-53594 2022-04-18 certified Assistant Professor, SC $83,000
A-20315-19264 2022-03-01 certified Assistant Professor, SC $70,640
A-21207-22408 2022-01-28 certified Assistant Professor, SC $48,500
The other 17
A-21074-62243 2021-09-01 certified Assistant Professor, SC $105,000
A-20338-28455 2021-08-19 certified Assistant Professor, SC $103,500
A-20311-17832 2021-08-19 certified Assistant Professor, SC $103,500
A-21042-51386 2021-07-22 certified Assistant Professor, SC $215,000
A-20315-19242 2021-07-06 certified Assistant Professor, SC $81,881
A-20296-12556 2021-05-28 certified Assistant Professor, SC $70,604
A-20290-10998 2021-05-21 certified Assistant Professor, SC $75,000
A-20304-14926 2021-05-19 certified Assistant Professor, SC $77,810
A-20290-11050 2021-05-13 certified Assistant Professor, SC $62,483
A-20260-00327 2021-04-26 certified Assistant Professor, SC $57,500
A-20180-70415 2021-01-21 certified Assistant Professor, SC $84,000
A-20309-16677 2020-12-03 withdrawn Assistant Professor, SC $103,500
A-20142-57216 2020-11-18 certified Assistant Professor, SC $31,830
A-20009-04610 2020-05-14 certified Assistant Professor, SC $85,000
A-19353-97988 2020-05-14 certified Assistant Professor, SC $88,000
A-19317-82657 2020-04-16 certified Assistant Professor, SC $69,000
A-19318-82975 2020-04-14 certified Assistant Professor, SC $77,500

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 26
  • South Korea 13
  • India 7
  • Germany 5
  • Brazil 4
  • Canada 4

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 84
  • Other 5

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 79
  • F-1 9
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY 3
  • THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 3
  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 3
  • GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY 2
  • MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY 2
  • MCGILL UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 5
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 4
  • MATHEMATICS 4
  • SOCIAL WORK 3
  • ACCOUNTING 2
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MARKETING) 2

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, 4 of 28. 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 28 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 1,512. 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 25 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 SC. 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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