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PERM sponsor, #277 of 70,985 by filings

WEST LIBERTY FOODS, LLC

Main job
Slaughterers and Meat Packers · 79% of its filings
Main worksite
West Liberty, IA · 70% of its filings
Industry
Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering · NAICS 311611

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Filings

136

#277 of 70,985

Certified

135

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$32,115

offered, per year

Median days

407

59 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 8 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 8 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 8 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 24, 2026

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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.

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 32,341 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 79,663 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
136 published
0 pending
$32,115 median, n=136
Prevailing wage requests
11 published
0 pending
$35,464 median, n=11
H-1B labor condition applications
0 published
0 pending
no wage published

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 WEST LIBERTY FOODS, LLC, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

None confirmed yet.

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.

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by WEST LIBERTY FOODS, LLC, as DOL's case-status service shows them.

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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 135 decided PERM cases

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

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

407 daysahead of 86%

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 109 and 181 filings.

Their median wait
470 days
This one
407 days

This one sits 63 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 277 of 70,985 by volume: 276 filed at least as many filings, and 70,708 filed no more.

Just above
Hughes Network Systems LLC 136 filings
Just below
Hyannis Air Service, Inc 135 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 Slaughterers and Meat Packers, 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

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

SOC 51-3023 · 108 filings, 79% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 3 occupations with the most filings, 134 of 136 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

Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering

NAICS 311611 · 101 filings

  • Poultry Processing 31161535
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

  • Iowa 95
  • Illinois 34
  • Utah 7
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. These 3 states cover 136 of 136 filings.

Where the work is

  • West Liberty, IA 95
  • Bolingbrook, IL 34
  • Tremonton, UT 7
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 136 of 136 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Law Offices of Gary J. Kim 94 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. LAW FIRM OF KIM & MIN 41 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 135 of 136 filings, 99% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Salt Lake Tribune

    5 cases

  2. THE SALT LAKE TRUBUNE

    1 cases

  3. THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE

    1 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.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    14%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    29%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    57%

  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 2022

533 PERM decisions from FY2022 to FY2025, busiest in FY2023 with 375.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2022 0 0 22
FY2023 278 0 97
FY2024 130 0 1
FY2025 5 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 397. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22249-17271 2023-09-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22249-17225 2023-09-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22249-17183 2023-09-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22158-67860 2023-07-28 certified Meat Packer, UT $32,968
A-22158-67850 2023-07-28 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22159-68493 2023-07-28 certified Meat Packer, IA $30,680
A-22158-67786 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, UT $32,968
A-22158-67722 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, UT $32,968
The other 17
A-22215-99553 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22215-99524 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22215-99502 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IL $35,360
A-22154-65795 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22154-65769 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22154-65759 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22154-65684 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22154-65679 2023-07-27 certified Meat Molder, IA $30,680
A-22215-99765 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, IL $35,360
A-22215-99725 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, IL $35,360
A-22215-99698 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, IL $35,360
A-22215-99561 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, IL $35,360
A-22154-65849 2023-07-27 certified Meat Packer, IA $30,680
A-22153-65334 2023-07-26 certified Meat Molder, UT $32,968
A-22153-65262 2023-07-26 certified Meat Molder, UT $32,968
A-22153-65087 2023-07-26 certified Meat Molder, UT $32,968
A-22152-64646 2023-07-26 certified Meat Molder, UT $32,968

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

  • Bangladesh 94
  • Mongolia 84
  • Brazil 56
  • Cambodia 41
  • Burma (myanmar) 38
  • Vietnam 38

Worker's education

  • None 397

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 72
  • B-2 38
  • F-2 16
  • B-1 4
  • J-1 4
  • H-2B 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 Slaughterers and Meat Packers, 108 of 136. 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 136 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 277. 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 135 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 IA. 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 24, 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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