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PERM sponsor, #438 of 70,985 by filings

West Virginia University

West Virginia University sponsors green cards: it filed 6 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 7, 2026. West Virginia University has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary · 20% of its filings
Main worksite
Morgantown, WV · 41% of its filings
Industry
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools · NAICS 611310

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This rate is level with the field

Over 78 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 6.9% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

82

#438 of 70,985

Certified

77

1 denied

Approval

98.7%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$150,000

offered, per year

Median days

478

12 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 79 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 79 tracked cases. The other 73 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 14, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 6 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
6100%

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 79 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 79, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 20, 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.

  • G-300-26280-285285 Assistant Professor (Music Theory) filed 2026-10-07 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26168-026302 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering filed 2026-06-17 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26146-948924 Teaching Assistant Professor (Biology) filed 2026-05-26 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26139-926036 Assistant Professor (General Business) filed 2026-05-19 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-26134-912219 Research Associate (GIS Programmer) filed 2026-05-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-300-26014-558079 Assistant Professor (Restorative Dentistry) filed 2026-01-14 · ANALYST REVIEW
  • G-100-25269-336752 Research Associate (GIS Analyst) filed 2025-09-26 · CERTIFIED
  • G-100-25252-296784 Research Program Coordinator filed 2025-09-09 · 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 29,912 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 80,461 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)
82 published
6 pending
$150,000 median, n=82
Prevailing wage requests
88 published
6 pending
$69,090 median, n=83
H-1B labor condition applications
725 published
2 pending
$115,507 median, n=725

Its median H-1B wage is $115,507 across 725 LCAs, 23.0% lower than its median PERM wage of $150,000 across 82 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 West Virginia 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. 99% 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: 725 LCAs filed by West Virginia University, 625 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

254 positions for new employment, 45 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 254 · 41%
  • Change of employer 7e 45 · 7%
  • Continuing 7b 124 · 20%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 6 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 70 · 11%
  • Amended petition 7f 131 · 21%

Shares of the 625 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 297 · 50%
  • Level II 60 · 10%
  • Level III 36 · 6%
  • Level IV 207 · 35%

Shares of the 600 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; 25 of 625 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 26, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 1 of 674 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 724. 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 724 · E-3 (Australia) 1. 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

    98.7% of 78 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 24% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    6 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 83% of the 13,990 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    239 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    6.8% of 265 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 25% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    3.0% of 264 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 12% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    98.5% of 259 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

98.7%ahead of 24%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

478 daysahead of 31%

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 75 and 98 filings.

Their median wait
459 days
This one
478 days

This one sits 19 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 438 of 70,985 by volume: 437 filed at least as many filings, and 70,547 filed no more.

Just above
DST Enterprises, Inc 83 filings
Just below
Health Care Service Corporation 82 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 · 16 filings, 20% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 41 of 82 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 · 82 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

  • West Virginia 43
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 43 of 82 filings.

Where the work is

  • Morgantown, WV 34
  • Beckley, WV 2
  • Charleston, WV 2
  • Wheeling, WV 2
  • Fairmont, WV 1
  • Martinsburg, WV 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 42 of 82 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 4 filings
  2. Hammond Neal Moore, LLC 3 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 7 of 82 filings, 9% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Dominion Post

    4 cases

  2. Charleston Gazette-Mail

    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.

Additional steps it used

  1. The employer's website

    5 cases

  2. Job search websites

    5 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    5 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

    60%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    20%

  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

446 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2010 with 49.

  • 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 11 0 0
FY2009 7 0 1
FY2010 39 5 5
FY2011 18 0 0
FY2012 22 0 1
FY2013 10 1 3
FY2014 40 0 3
FY2015 10 0 1
FY2016 32 0 1
FY2017 17 0 0
FY2018 34 1 2
FY2019 11 1 0
FY2020 21 0 2
FY2021 18 0 0
FY2022 24 0 0
FY2023 23 0 0
FY2024 26 0 2
FY2025 28 0 1
FY2026 23 1 1

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 187. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22167-73163 2023-09-28 certified Assistant Professor (Pulmonary/Critical Care), WV $315,580
A-22210-96989 2023-07-14 certified Assistant Professor (Hem/Onc), WV $450,000
A-22172-75783 2023-07-14 certified Assistant Professor & Medical Director (Hem/Onc), WV $650,000
A-22210-97052 2023-07-14 certified Assistant Professor (Pediatric Neonatology), WV $355,000
A-22227-06019 2023-06-22 certified GIS Geographer, WV $60,000
A-22231-08756 2023-06-02 certified Assistant Professor (Rheumatology), WV $265,034
A-22209-96540 2023-05-24 certified Assistant Professor (Endocrinology), WV $258,436
A-22209-96351 2023-05-24 certified Assistant Professor (Endocrinology), WV $258,436
The other 17
A-22181-81991 2023-05-02 certified Assistant Professor (Psychiatry), WV $320,000
A-22188-84581 2023-04-03 certified Assistant Professor (Geriatrics), WV $227,484
A-22158-67603 2023-03-24 certified Assistant Professor (Cardiology), WV $385,000
A-22172-75769 2023-03-16 certified Assistant Professor (Neurology), WV $350,000
A-22168-73988 2023-03-10 certified Assistant Professor (Neurology), WV $300,602
A-22165-71491 2023-03-09 certified Assistant Professor (Neuro Ophthalmology), WV $300,000
A-22143-59270 2023-03-01 certified Application Developer, WV $90,000
A-22097-37175 2023-01-17 certified Director of Software Development and Architecture, WV $130,000
A-22101-38889 2023-01-11 certified Assistant Professor, WV $97,000
A-22074-25810 2023-01-09 certified Assistant Professor (Hospitalist), WV $276,162
A-22074-25766 2023-01-09 certified Assistant Professor (Hospitalist), WV $276,162
A-22073-25214 2022-12-13 certified Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine), WV $237,945
A-22027-03646 2022-12-12 certified Assistant Professor & Director of the Graduate Program in Orthodontics, WV $150,000
A-22027-03627 2022-11-17 certified Assistant Professor (Neurology), WV $251,364
A-21320-73678 2022-10-03 certified Assistant Professor (Pediatrics), WV $224,624
A-22011-96491 2022-09-19 certified Assistant Professor (Family Medicine), WV $194,922
A-21175-06911 2022-07-07 certified Assistant Professor (Vascular Surgery), WV $450,000

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 57
  • Pakistan 28
  • Canada 19
  • China 11
  • Nepal 8
  • South Korea 7

Worker's education

  • Other 117
  • Doctorate 58
  • Master's 11
  • Bachelor's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 156
  • J-1 12
  • F-1 6
  • TN 4
  • TPS 3
  • H-4 2

Schools

  • WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY 7
  • KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY 6
  • THE TAMIL NADU DR. M.G.R. MEDICAL UNIVERSITY 4
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 4
  • KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY 3
  • THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY 3

Fields of study

  • MEDICINE 112
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 5
  • BIOLOGY 4
  • CHEMISTRY 3
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3
  • ARCHITECTURE 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 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, 16 of 82. 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 82 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 438. 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 78 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 WV. 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 20, 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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