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PERM sponsor, #415 of 70,985 by filings

University of Washington

University of Washington sponsors green cards: it filed 23 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 24, 2026. University of Washington has 24 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary · 17% of its filings
Main worksite
Seattle, WA · 89% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with University of Washington?

  • When it'll likely be decided
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This rate is level with the field

Over 80 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 4.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

89

#415 of 70,985

Certified

80

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$124,200

offered, per year

Median days

433

33 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 122 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

24

of 122 tracked cases. The other 98 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 13, 2024, 22 months ago.

Where those 24 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
2083%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
417%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

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 122 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 122, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 18, 2026

Follow University of Washington

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.

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 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,983 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
89 published
24 pending
$124,200 median, n=89
Prevailing wage requests
196 published
5 pending
$76,070 median, n=154
H-1B labor condition applications
1,255 published
9 pending
$83,520 median, n=1,254

Its median H-1B wage is $83,520 across 1,254 LCAs, 32.8% lower than its median PERM wage of $124,200 across 89 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.

Of its 24 pending PERM cases, 4 (17%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 4 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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 Washington, 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. 65% 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: 1,255 LCAs filed by University of Washington, 1,120 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

551 positions for new employment, 104 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 551 · 49%
  • Change of employer 7e 104 · 9%
  • Continuing 7b 347 · 31%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 34 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 84 · 8%

Shares of the 1,120 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 318 · 65%
  • Level II 134 · 27%
  • Level III 31 · 6%
  • Level IV 6 · 1%

Shares of the 489 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; 631 of 1,120 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 1,169 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 1,250. 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 1,248 · E-3 (Australia) 7. 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 80 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    23 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 96% of the 13,942 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    315 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,916 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    12% of 360 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 42% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    5.1% of 214 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 18% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.4% of 499 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 48% 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

433 daysahead of 76%

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 78 and 103 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
433 days

This one sits 32 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 415 of 70,985 by volume: 414 filed at least as many filings, and 70,570 filed no more.

Just above
NTT DATA Services, LLC 89 filings
Just below
COX AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATE SERVICES LLC 89 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 Health Specialties 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

Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

SOC 25-1071.00 · 15 filings, 17% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 39 of 89 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 · 89 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

  • Washington 89
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 89 of 89 filings.

Where the work is

  • Seattle, WA 79
  • Tacoma, WA 6
  • Bothell, WA 3
  • Friday Harbor, WA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 4 cities cover 89 of 89 filings.

History

Year by year since 2008

440 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 46.

  • 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 19 0 0
FY2009 14 0 0
FY2010 44 2 0
FY2011 17 0 0
FY2012 15 1 1
FY2013 12 0 1
FY2014 22 0 3
FY2015 18 0 1
FY2016 38 0 0
FY2017 24 0 0
FY2018 31 0 1
FY2019 14 0 1
FY2020 18 0 0
FY2021 19 0 0
FY2022 19 0 1
FY2023 14 0 1
FY2024 29 0 3
FY2025 27 0 3
FY2026 24 0 3

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 181. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22249-17415 2023-08-22 certified Assistant Professor, WA $85,905
A-22192-86186 2023-06-09 withdrawn Research Assistant Professor, NC $131,640
A-22175-78264 2023-03-20 certified Assistant Professor, WA $103,500
A-22160-69352 2023-03-07 certified Research Assistant Professor, WA $115,200
A-22138-57214 2023-03-06 certified Assistant Professor, WA $108,000
A-22138-57404 2023-03-01 certified Assistant Professor, WA $85,500
A-22014-98547 2023-02-24 certified Assistant Professor, WA $133,200
A-22060-17845 2023-02-13 certified Assistant Professor, WA $87,507
The other 17
A-21323-75897 2023-02-09 certified Assistant Professor, WA $145,008
A-22010-96112 2023-02-08 certified Assistant Professor, WA $92,007
A-21364-92260 2023-02-08 certified Assistant Professor, WA $107,001
A-22084-30902 2023-01-23 certified Assistant Professor, WA $95,508
A-22110-43671 2023-01-23 certified Assistant Professor, WA $133,200
A-22028-04535 2023-01-20 certified Assistant Professor without Tenure, WA $117,312
A-21361-91045 2023-01-11 certified Assistant Professor, WA $110,016
A-21270-50575 2022-06-23 certified Assistant Professor, WA $81,600
A-21284-57017 2022-05-03 certified Assistant Professor, WA $120,006
A-21267-49558 2022-05-02 certified Assistant Teaching Professor (formerly Lecturer Full-Time), WA $74,250
A-21277-53843 2022-04-28 certified Assistant Professor, WA $97,389
A-21246-40112 2022-04-20 certified Assistant Professor, WA $92,502
A-21260-46480 2022-04-19 certified Assistant Professor, WA $109,800
A-21263-47052 2022-04-05 withdrawn Assistant Professor, WA $133,200
A-21148-93686 2022-03-25 certified Assistant Teaching Professor (formerly Lecturer Full-Time), WA $90,000
A-21155-96451 2022-01-14 certified Assistant Professor without Tenure, WA $336,804
A-21111-76663 2021-12-17 certified Assistant Professor, WA $90,279

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

  • Canada 33
  • China 26
  • India 14
  • Germany 9
  • South Korea 9
  • United Kingdom 6

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 162
  • Other 16
  • Master's 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 163
  • F-1 7
  • J-1 3
  • O-1 2
  • TN 2
  • NOT IN USA 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 9
  • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 6
  • SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 5
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 4
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • MEDICINE 24
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 8
  • ECONOMICS 7
  • PHYSICS 6
  • STATISTICS 6
  • ACCOUNTING 3

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 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, 15 of 89. 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 89 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 415. 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 80 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 WA. 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 18, 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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