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PERM sponsor, #1,730 of 70,985 by filings

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University sponsors green cards: it filed 9 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 30, 2026. Vanderbilt University has 5 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Business Teachers, Postsecondary · 20% of its filings
Main worksite
Nashville, TN · 96% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

Waiting on a case with Vanderbilt University?

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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

25

#1,730 of 70,985

Certified

25

0 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 25 decided

Median wage

$68,000

offered, per year

Median days

479

13 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 32 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

5

of 32 tracked cases. The other 27 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 30, 2026, 8 months ago.

Where those 5 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
5100%

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 32 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 32, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

Follow Vanderbilt University

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

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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  • G-100-26273-270173 Senior Research Fellow (050799.000461) filed 2026-09-30 · WITHDRAWN
  • G-100-26273-271514 Senior Research Fellow (050799.000461) filed 2026-09-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26266-255626 Senior Lecturer (050799.000377) filed 2026-09-23 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26034-617627 Associate Head Coach – Women’s Tennis (050799.000487) filed 2026-02-03 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26030-609447 Principal Security Analyst (050799.000248) filed 2026-01-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26030-606153 System Administrator (050799.000465) filed 2026-01-30 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-25356-501715 Assistant Professor of Law (050799.000534) filed 2025-12-22 · CERTIFIED
  • G-100-25352-495543 Senior State Policy Analyst (050799.000405) filed 2025-12-18 · 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 31,092 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

Only 3 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 79,915 cases, and would be decided around March 19, 2027 (between February 27, 2027 and April 28, 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)
25 published
5 pending
$68,000 median, n=25
Prevailing wage requests
30 published
4 pending
$57,350 median, n=30
H-1B labor condition applications
519 published
0 pending
$71,965 median, n=519

Its median H-1B wage is $71,965 across 519 LCAs, 5.8% higher than its median PERM wage of $68,000 across 25 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 Vanderbilt University, 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. 100% 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: 519 LCAs filed by Vanderbilt University, 510 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

270 positions for new employment, 56 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 270 · 53%
  • Change of employer 7e 56 · 11%
  • Continuing 7b 149 · 29%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 10 · 2%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 25 · 5%

Shares of the 510 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 132 · 26%
  • Level II 210 · 41%
  • Level III 99 · 19%
  • Level IV 69 · 14%

Shares of the 510 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; 0 of 510 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 1, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 492 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 518. 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 517 · E-3 (Australia) 2. 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 filings in the last 12 months

    9 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 89% of the 14,017 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    147 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    10% of 175 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 38% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    38% of 175 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 55% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.7% of 223 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 51% 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

479 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 25 and 26 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
479 days

This one sits 15 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 1,730 of 70,985 by volume: 1,729 filed at least as many filings, and 69,255 filed no more.

Just above
The University of Memphis 25 filings
Just below
Tailored Shared Services, LLC 25 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 · 5 filings, 20% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 14 of 25 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 · 25 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

  • Tennessee 25
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 25 of 25 filings.

Where the work is

  • Nashville, TN 24
  • Franklin, TN 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 25 of 25 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. 25 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 25 of 25 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Tennessean

    7 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

    7 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    7 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    7 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

    71%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    29%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

147 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 2 1 0
FY2009 2 0 3
FY2010 27 1 0
FY2011 10 1 0
FY2012 13 0 0
FY2013 3 0 0
FY2014 9 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 13 1 0
FY2017 8 0 1
FY2018 5 0 0
FY2019 5 0 0
FY2020 3 0 0
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 5 0 0
FY2023 5 0 0
FY2024 6 0 0
FY2025 12 0 0
FY2026 7 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 49. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22152-64085 2023-03-23 certified Assistant Professor of History, TN $90,000
A-22090-34095 2023-02-14 certified Assistant Professor in Political Economy Theory, TN $150,000
A-22073-25038 2023-02-08 certified Assistant Professor, TN $85,000
A-22059-16949 2023-01-25 certified Korean Language Lecturer, TN $58,000
A-22004-93444 2022-10-17 certified Senior IT Auditor, TN $86,184
A-21320-73870 2022-07-06 certified Senior Lecturer in Economics, TN $101,800
A-21239-36981 2022-03-15 certified Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies, TN $66,870
A-21231-33688 2022-03-07 certified Assistant Professor of the Practice of Hebrew Language Instruction, TN $71,050
The other 17
A-21235-34791 2022-03-07 certified Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, TN $115,750
A-21239-37128 2022-03-03 certified Lecturer, TN $61,848
A-20351-34036 2021-06-17 certified Research Assistant Professor, TN $70,898
A-20218-85286 2021-04-13 certified Research Assistant II, TN $49,878
A-20189-73449 2021-03-15 certified Assistant Professor in American Political Behavior, TN $115,000
A-20049-20343 2020-09-30 certified Senior Business Intelligence Developer, TN $110,358
A-20049-20432 2020-06-23 certified Study Abroad Adviser & Faculty-Led&Incoming Exchange Coordinator, TN $53,203
A-19289-71477 2020-03-25 certified Assistant Professor of Nursing, TN $115,000
A-19163-17211 2019-09-25 certified Senior Application Developer, TN $98,318
A-19144-09831 2019-08-16 certified Licensing Associate, TN $69,489
A-19144-09868 2019-07-30 certified Senior Business Intelligence Developer, TN $100,312
A-19030-67577 2019-05-21 certified Assistant Professor of Global Digital Media (Tenure Track), TN $79,000
A-18227-07771 2018-12-07 certified Senior Lecturer in French, TN $55,890
A-17348-21742 2018-05-31 certified Computer Systems Analyst III, TN $91,790
A-17342-19240 2018-05-31 certified Senior Data Warehouse Administrator, TN $103,000
A-17353-23392 2018-05-16 certified Drug Discovery Scientist I, TN $57,680
A-17293-01054 2018-04-16 certified Student Systems Implementation and Technology Specialist, TN $71,000

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

  • India 20
  • South Korea 7
  • China 5
  • Ecuador 3
  • United Kingdom 3
  • Canada 2

Worker's education

  • Doctorate 25
  • Master's 15
  • Bachelor's 6
  • Other 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 46
  • J-1 1
  • TPS 1

Schools

  • VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 2
  • YALE UNIVERSITY 2
  • BOSTON UNIVERSITY 1
  • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1
  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1
  • DR. NTR UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES 1

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 6
  • ECONOMICS 4
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 2
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE 2
  • APPLIED LINGUISTICS 1
  • BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 1

Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The entry below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #1,730 counts this page's cases only.

11 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Business Teachers, Postsecondary, 5 of 25. 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 25 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 1,730. 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 TN. 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 22, 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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