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PERM sponsor, #25,259 of 70,985 by filings
Whitman College
Whitman College sponsors green cards: it filed 3 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on November 4, 2025.
Waiting on a case with Whitman College?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
2 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
2
#25,259 of 70,985
Certified
2
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 2 decided
Median wage
$70,000
offered, per year
Median days
390
middle of 2 decided
Right now
DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 5 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow Whitman College
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
Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.
Its newest filings
Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.
- G-100-25309-379944 Assistant Professor of Gender Studies filed 2025-11-04 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25309-380005 Assistant Professor of Economics filed 2025-11-04 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25309-379981 Assistant Professor of Politics (Global Environmental) filed 2025-11-04 · CERTIFIED
- G-100-25268-335913 Assistant Director for Faculty Human Resources filed 2025-09-25 · CERTIFIED
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
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 31,881 decisions in the same 90 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 79,585 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
- 2 published
- 0 pending
- 2 wages, under the floor
- Prevailing wage requests
- 5 published
- 1 pending
- 5 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 36 published
- 0 pending
- $71,698 median, n=36
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 Whitman College, newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-26240-202505 Director of Facilities Operations 2026-08-28 · IN PROCESS
- P-100-24282-393319 Assistant Professor of Gender Studies $46,370 per year 2024-10-08 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24261-344529 Assistant Professor of Economics $62,910 per year 2024-09-17 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24261-344526 Assistant Professor of Politics (Global Environmental) $50,680 per year 2024-09-17 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-24219-248730 Assistant Director for Faculty Human Resources $91,021 per year 2024-08-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-200-26244-209457 Assistant Professor of Economics 2026-09-01 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26231-180956 Assistant Professor of Gender Studies 2026-08-19 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26173-037935 Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in Theory &Composition $69,500 per year 2026-06-22 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26133-907631 Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology $68,000 per year 2026-05-13 · CERTIFIED
- I-200-26009-548788 Assistant Professor of Economics $100,760 per year 2026-01-09 · CERTIFIED
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.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 36 LCAs filed by Whitman College, 34 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
21 positions for new employment, 1 moving here from another employer.
- New employment 7a 21 · 62%
- Change of employer 7e 1 · 3%
- Continuing 7b 8 · 24%
- Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 4 · 12%
Shares of the 34 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 8 · 24%
- Level II 20 · 59%
- Level III 3 · 9%
- Level IV 3 · 9%
Shares of the 34 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 34 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 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 33 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 36. 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
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
How it compares with other sponsors
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
3 filed in the last 12 months
Higher than 68% of the 14,035 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.
H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months
10 certified in the last 24 months
Higher than 71% of the 27,861 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
390 daysmiddle of 2 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed 2 filings each.
- Their median wait
- 406 days
- This one
- 390 days
This one sits 16 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 25,259 of 70,985 by volume: 25,258 filed at least as many filings, and 45,726 filed no more.
- Just above
- Main Group USA Inc. 2 filings
- Just below
- LAW OFFICES OF MARTINIAN AND ASSOCIATES 2 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #25,258 Main Group USA Inc. 2 filings · none denied
- #25,260 LAW OFFICES OF MARTINIAN AND ASSOCIATES 2 filings · none denied
- #25,257 Major League Soccer (Sporting Kansas City) 2 filings · none denied
- #25,261 Emerson Clinical Research Institute 2 filings · none denied
- #25,256 Newmont Farm, LLC 2 filings · none denied
- #25,262 LTI Mindtree (formerly Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited) 2 filings · none denied
History
Year by year since 2008
15 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2024, busiest in FY2010 with 4.
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2024 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2010 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 6. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-21145-91396 | 2021-11-23 | certified | Assistant Professor of Economics, WA | $85,000 |
| A-21102-73147 | 2021-09-02 | withdrawn | Assistant Professor of Biology (Microbiology), WA | $75,000 |
| A-18211-02768 | 2018-10-15 | certified | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, WA | $65,000 |
| A-17102-24340 | 2017-07-12 | certified | Assistant Professor of Mathematics (Statistics), WA | $67,000 |
| A-17105-25390 | 2017-07-12 | certified | Assistant Professor of Economics, WA | $85,000 |
| A-16133-09147 | 2016-08-05 | certified | Systems & Applications Librarian, WA | $56,243 |
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 2 entries 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 #25,259 counts this page's cases only.
2 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
- 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 2 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 25,259. 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 2 decided cases
- That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
- 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. 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 23, 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.