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PERM sponsor, #367 of 70,985 by filings

UST Global Inc

UST Global Inc sponsors green cards: it filed 124 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 20, 2026. UST Global Inc has 52 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Computer Systems Analysts · 69% of its filings
Main worksite
Aliso Viejo, CA · 100% of its filings
Industry
Custom Computer Programming Services · NAICS 541511

Waiting on a case with UST Global Inc?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 99 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

100

#367 of 70,985

Certified

99

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$97,594

offered, per year

Median days

490

24 slower 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 215 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

52

of 215 tracked cases. The other 163 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 14, 2026, 5 months ago.

Where those 52 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
52100%

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 215 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 215, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 17 DOL certified 15 of its cases
  2. September 15 DOL certified 14 of its cases
  3. September 14 DOL certified 28 of its cases

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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. UST Global Inc

    median of 72 decisions in the last 90 days

    305 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,678 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

About the same as everyone: DOL works one national line in filing order. 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 79,922 cases, and would be decided around March 18, 2027 (between February 26, 2027 and April 27, 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)
100 published
52 pending
$97,594 median, n=100
Prevailing wage requests
90 published
0 pending
$140,358 median, n=81
H-1B labor condition applications
5,063 published
4 pending
$96,480 median, n=5,061

Its median H-1B wage ($96,480 across 5,061 LCAs) and its median PERM wage ($97,594 across 100 cases) are within 2% of each other.

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 UST Global Inc, 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: 5,063 LCAs filed by UST Global Inc, 5,034 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

1,433 positions for new employment, 555 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 1,433 · 28%
  • Change of employer 7e 555 · 11%
  • Continuing 7b 1,239 · 25%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 1,803 · 36%

Shares of the 5,034 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 1 · 1%
  • Level II 4,594 · 91%
  • Level III 403 · 8%
  • Level IV 35 · 1%

Shares of the 5,033 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; 1 of 5,034 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
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 4,721 of 4,721 LCAs, and a willful violator on 5 of 5,054. 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 5,053 · E-3 (Australia) 3 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4 · H-1B1 (Singapore) 3. 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 99 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    124 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 99% of the 14,008 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    1,317 certified in the last 24 months

    At the top of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    18% of 1,551 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 61% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    6.5% of 1,551 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 21% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.5% of 1,577 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 59% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 5 LCAs.
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

490 daysahead of 13%

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 85 and 120 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
490 days

This one sits 27 days behind 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 367 of 70,985 by volume: 366 filed at least as many filings, and 70,618 filed no more.

Just above
College Town Pizza, Inc. 101 filings
Just below
Senior Management, Inc. 100 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 Computer Systems Analysts, 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

Computer Systems Analysts

SOC 15-1211.00 · 69 filings, 69% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 97 of 100 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

Custom Computer Programming Services

NAICS 541511 · 100 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

  • California 100
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 100 of 100 filings.

Where the work is

  • Aliso Viejo, CA 100
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 100 of 100 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Chugh, LLP 100 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

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

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Orange County Register

    91 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. Job search websites

    91 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    91 cases

  3. Trade or professional organizations

    91 cases

  4. The employer's website

    38 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

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    1.1%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    33%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    66%

  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 2009

1,126 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2022 with 131.

  • 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
FY2009 32 1 0
FY2010 20 0 0
FY2011 30 1 1
FY2012 35 1 16
FY2013 36 2 0
FY2014 48 0 0
FY2015 49 0 0
FY2016 88 1 3
FY2017 96 5 1
FY2018 101 1 1
FY2019 93 0 1
FY2020 28 0 0
FY2021 98 0 2
FY2022 128 0 3
FY2023 103 0 1
FY2024 9 0 1
FY2025 52 0 0
FY2026 38 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 754. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22298-45664 2023-09-20 certified Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22298-45273 2023-09-08 certified Systems Analyst - General, CA $130,957
A-22271-30179 2023-08-31 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22280-35936 2023-08-28 certified Software Architect - General, CA $96,907
A-22271-30188 2023-08-25 certified Project Manager, CA $150,592
A-22271-30184 2023-08-25 certified Project Manager, CA $150,592
A-22271-30180 2023-08-25 certified Project Manager, CA $150,592
A-22271-30214 2023-08-23 certified Project Manager, CA $70,075
The other 17
A-22277-33135 2023-08-23 certified Software Architect - General, CA $96,907
A-22271-30146 2023-08-23 certified Software Architect - General, CA $96,907
A-22271-30138 2023-08-23 certified Test Analyst, CA $91,790
A-22271-30155 2023-08-22 certified Software Architect - General, CA $96,907
A-22271-30123 2023-08-22 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22257-21679 2023-07-05 certified Test Architect - General, CA $70,075
A-22257-21677 2023-07-05 certified Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22251-18732 2023-07-05 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22251-18710 2023-07-05 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22249-17400 2023-07-05 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22251-18719 2023-07-03 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22251-18718 2023-07-03 certified Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22251-18714 2023-07-03 certified Senior Systems Analyst - General, CA $91,790
A-22243-15189 2023-06-30 certified Associate Project Manager, CA $70,075
A-22243-15199 2023-06-30 certified Software Architect - General, CA $96,907
A-22243-15202 2023-06-30 certified Test Analyst, CA $91,790
A-22243-15188 2023-06-30 certified Test Analyst, CA $91,790

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 730
  • Philippines 16
  • Mexico 2
  • Brazil 1
  • Canada 1
  • Nepal 1

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 485
  • Master's 265
  • None 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 728
  • L-1 11
  • H-1B1 1
  • H-4 1
  • TN 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF KERALA 79
  • MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY 54
  • COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 48
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT 35
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 22
  • BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 20

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 152
  • TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 41
  • TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 33
  • TECHNOLOGY - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING 30
  • TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 28
  • SCIENCE 27

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 Computer Systems Analysts, 69 of 100. 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 100 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 367. 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 99 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 CA. 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 21, 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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