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PERM sponsor, #427 of 70,985 by filings

West Wind Express, Inc.

West Wind Express, Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 50 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on October 12, 2026. West Wind Express, Inc. has 16 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · 66% of its filings
Main worksite
Bedford Park, IL · 100% of its filings
Industry
General Freight Trucking · NAICS 4841

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This rate is level with the field

Over 84 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 11.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

85

#427 of 70,985

Certified

80

4 denied

Approval

95.2%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$56,763

offered, per year

Median days

500

34 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 130 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

16

of 130 tracked cases. The other 114 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed January 2, 2026, 9 months ago.

Where those 16 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
16100%

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 130 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 130, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 22, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

  1. September 24 DOL certified 11 of its cases
  2. September 12 DOL certified 17 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. West Wind Express, Inc.

    median of 34 decisions in the last 90 days

    293 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,882 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 80,100 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)
85 published
16 pending
$56,763 median, n=85
Prevailing wage requests
23 published
5 pending
$57,595 median, n=23
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; 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 Wind Express, Inc., 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 Wind Express, Inc., 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

    95.2% of 84 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 9% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    50 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 98% of the 14,014 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

95.2%ahead of 9%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

500 daysahead of 5%

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 77 and 100 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
500 days

This one sits 35 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 427 of 70,985 by volume: 426 filed at least as many filings, and 70,558 filed no more.

Just above
Capital One, National Association 86 filings
Just below
Starbucks Coffee Company 85 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 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, 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

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

SOC 53-3032.00 · 56 filings, 66% of everything they file · 98.2% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 79 of 85 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

General Freight Trucking

NAICS 4841 · 45 filings

  • General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload 48412140
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

  • Illinois 85
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 85 of 85 filings.

Where the work is

  • Bedford Park, IL 85
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 85 of 85 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Kurczaba & Brozek Law Offices, LLC 79 filings · 98.7% approved
  2. Kurczaba Law Offices PC 6 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 85 of 85 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    80 cases

  2. 45011

    1 cases

  3. Chicago Sum Times

    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. Job search websites

    2 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    2 cases

  3. Radio or TV ads

    2 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

    19%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    5.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    2.5%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    74%

  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

168 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 60.

  • 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 1 0 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 2 0 0
FY2011 4 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 3 0 0
FY2016 3 0 0
FY2017 2 0 0
FY2018 11 1 0
FY2019 12 0 1
FY2020 6 0 0
FY2021 9 1 0
FY2022 5 0 5
FY2023 14 1 1
FY2024 1 3 1
FY2025 59 1 0
FY2026 20 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 72. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22040-09764 2023-07-12 certified Maintenance Technician, IL $50,981
A-22038-08548 2023-01-27 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08550 2023-01-26 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08524 2023-01-26 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08519 2023-01-26 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08518 2023-01-26 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22036-07839 2023-01-26 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-20325-23804 2022-11-30 denied Truck Dispatcher, IL $38,605
The other 17
A-22038-08554 2022-11-02 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08551 2022-10-21 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22040-09765 2022-10-17 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22039-08587 2022-10-12 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22039-08556 2022-10-12 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08555 2022-10-12 certified Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22039-08591 2022-10-12 certified Truck Driver, IL $32,656
A-22039-08578 2022-10-12 certified Office Assistant, IL $49,795
A-21229-32438 2022-06-01 certified Logistics Coordinator, IL $57,221
A-22038-08540 2022-02-07 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08532 2022-02-07 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08527 2022-02-07 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08512 2022-02-07 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-22038-08503 2022-02-07 withdrawn Truck Driver, IL $51,043
A-21172-04450 2021-12-08 certified Marketing Specialist, IL $76,482
A-20328-24481 2021-10-08 certified Warehouse Supervisor, IL $71,282
A-20325-24018 2021-10-08 certified Truck Dispatcher, IL $38,605

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

  • Poland 52
  • Ukraine 10
  • South Africa 5
  • Czech Republic 2
  • Honduras 1
  • Mongolia 1

Worker's education

  • None 55
  • High School 9
  • Bachelor's 5
  • Associate's 2
  • Master's 1

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 13
  • B-2 5
  • J-1 3
  • F-2 2
  • H-2B 2
  • H-1B 1

Schools

  • CHICAGO PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS 1
  • CHICAGO PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS - CHARLES P. STEINMETZ ACADEMIC 1
  • DROHOBYCH SPECIALIZED SCHOOL NO 16 1
  • HIGH SCHOOL GROUP OF TECHNICAL SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER TADEUSZ KOSCIUSZKO 1
  • INSTYTUT NAUK O KULTURZE FIZYCZNEJ 1
  • IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV 1

Fields of study

  • GENERAL 7
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2
  • ADMINISTRATION OF INNOVATION/BUSINESS ACTIVITY 1
  • CHEMISTRY 1
  • ECONOMICS - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OF AGRICULTURAL ENTITIES 1
  • GENERAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCE 1

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 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers, 56 of 85. 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 85 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 427. 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 84 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 IL. 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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