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W.M. Rice University

We hold 14 PERM cases for this sponsor, filed from June 12, 2025 to November 6, 2026. Name as DOL prints it on the application.

DOL hasn't published any of this sponsor's cases yet

A case reaches DOL's quarterly files only once it's decided, so this sponsor has no approval rate, decision time, wage or rank yet. Below are its cases, with DOL's status on each.

Waiting on a case with W.M. Rice University?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

Don't have the number?

Cases we hold

14

from DOL's live case record

Waiting on a decision

6

8 already decided

Newest filing

November 6, 2026

oldest June 12, 2025

Where those cases are standing

DOL's own status on each case, counted. Ordered biggest first: these aren't steps in a sequence, and a case can reach an audit without an RFI or re-enter after a decision.

CERTIFIED
8 57%

DOL approved the application. The employer has 180 calendar days from the certification date to file the I-140, with no extensions.

ANALYST REVIEW
6 43%

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

Follow W.M. Rice 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.

Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of November 12, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

No account needed. You confirm by email first, and one click turns it off.

Filing to decision

  1. Every employer

    300 days

    median of 41,380 decisions in the same 90 days

None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own.

Filed today: decided around April 28, 2027 (April 8, 2027 to June 7, 2027), behind 77,797 cases in the same line as anyone's. Estimate another date

How this is counted

Filing to decision, over decisions this site watched DOL make in the last 90 days, with withdrawals left out.

All 14 cases

The wage, the law firm and the worksite arrive with DOL's quarterly files.

DOL live case record, as of November 12, 2026

Its wage requests and LCAs

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

Source: DOL's case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up.

Wage requests and PERM applications, by year

Its newest wage request went in on October 13, 2026, and its newest PERM application on November 6, 2026.

Year Wage requests PERM applications
2023 0 0
2024 11 0
2025 7 8
2026 so far 8 6

A wage request comes months before its PERM application, so a year's requests can show up as the next year's applications.

How these are counted

Each filing is counted in the calendar year the employer sent it. Wage requests are the green card kind, from DOL's quarterly wage file and its live case status, each case once. PERM applications are from DOL's PERM files and its live case list. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name. A wage is good for up to a year, and an employer may ask for one it never uses.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 554 LCAs filed by W.M. Rice University, 545 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

326 positions for new employment, 38 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 326 · 60%
  • Change of employer 7e 38 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 142 · 26%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 4 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 2 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 33 · 6%

Shares of the 545 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs. They don't count people hired, because 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 199 · 37%
  • Level II 178 · 33%
  • Level III 80 · 15%
  • Level IV 88 · 16%

Shares of the 545 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 545 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 12, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 521 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 554. 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. Or 26 to 50 employees and more than 12 H-1B workers. Or 51 or more employees, 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

What USCIS decided on its H-1B petitions

Workers approved and denied on USCIS's first decision, FY2011 to FY2026 (through June 30, 2026), from USCIS's H-1B Employer Data Hub.

Approved, FY2025

91

Denied

2

Approved on first decision

98%

New employment: 61 approved. Moving here from another employer: 8 approved.

Every year

  • FY2026 47 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2025 91 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2024 84 approved, 0 denied
  • FY2023 64 approved, 0 denied
  • FY2022 57 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2021 58 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2020 82 approved, 3 denied
  • FY2019 67 approved, 1 denied
  • FY2018 70 approved, 0 denied
  • FY2017 60 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2016 58 approved, 0 denied
  • FY2015 58 approved, 0 denied
  • FY2014 51 approved, 1 denied
  • FY2013 38 approved, 2 denied
  • FY2012 42 approved, 1 denied
  • FY2011 1 approved, 0 denied

Green: approved. Red: denied. Bars to the busiest year's scale.

Counted under W M RICE UNIVERSITY, matched by name, the way the LCA counts above are.

What these counts are, and aren't

Counts of workers on USCIS's first decision, by the fiscal year USCIS recorded it. Appeals, revocations and petitions still pending aren't in them. The location is the employer's mailing address, which doesn't show where the work is.

  • New employment. The worker is outside the US with no classification, is changing to H-1B from another classification, or stays with the employer in a different classification.
  • Change of employer. The worker moves to this employer from another, in the H-1B classification already held.
  • Continuation. Continuing previously approved employment with the same employer, without change.
  • Change with the same employer. A non-material change, such as a new job title without a material change in duties.
  • Amended petition. A material change in the terms or conditions of employment, or a substitution.
  • New concurrent. A second employer while the worker keeps working for the first.

In USCIS's words on its data hub glossary.

Your case is with them?

The case-number lookup reads DOL live and can set an alert for the next change.

Where the queue stands

DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case. Processing times covers the whole of it.

This page is rebuilt periodically, so a status on it can lag DOL by days. The case lookup doesn't lag, because it asks DOL at the moment you ask it.

Per-case statuses through Nov 12, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.

The sources in full

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Nov 12, 2026 · daily

What this data includes

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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