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PERM sponsor, #2,045 of 70,985 by filings

WL Nails Inc

WL Nails Inc sponsors green cards: it filed 6 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on April 1, 2026. WL Nails Inc has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Manicurists and Pedicurists · 91% of its filings
Main worksite
Wilmington, NC · 100% of its filings
Industry
Nail Salons · NAICS 812113

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Too few cases for a rate

17 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

22

#2,045 of 70,985

Certified

15

2 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 17 decided

Median wage

$25,000

offered, per year

Median days

400

66 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 33 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 33 tracked cases. The other 27 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed March 24, 2026, 6 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 33 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 33, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow WL Nails Inc

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.

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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. Every employer

    median of 28,776 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 80,916 cases, and would be decided around March 15, 2027 (between February 23, 2027 and April 24, 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)
22 published
6 pending
$25,000 median, n=22
Prevailing wage requests
2 published
0 pending
2 wages, under the floor
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 WL Nails 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.

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 filings in the last 12 months

    6 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 83% of the 13,949 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

400 daysmiddle of 17 decided, too few to rank

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. This sponsor has 17 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 21 and 22 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
400 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 2,045 of 70,985 by volume: 2,044 filed at least as many filings, and 68,940 filed no more.

Just above
East West Bank 22 filings
Just below
Jentzsch Kearl Farms 22 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 Manicurists and Pedicurists, 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

Manicurists and Pedicurists

SOC 39-5092.00 · 20 filings, 91% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 21 of 22 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

Nail Salons

NAICS 812113 · 22 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

  • North Carolina 22
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 22 of 22 filings.

Where the work is

  • Wilmington, NC 22
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 22 of 22 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Vietnamese Business Immigration Services PLLC 21 filings
  2. VIETNAMESE BUSINESS COUNCIL GROUP LLC 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 22 of 22 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Wilmington Star News

    21 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

    52%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    0.0%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    48%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  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

39 PERM decisions from FY2022 to FY2026, busiest in FY2023 with 16.

  • 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
FY2022 0 0 1
FY2023 0 0 16
FY2024 0 1 1
FY2025 8 1 4
FY2026 7 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

All 17. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-23144-46999 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23144-46997 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23144-46995 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23144-46992 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23144-46945 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23143-46144 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23143-46138 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23143-46137 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
The other 9
A-23143-46135 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23143-46133 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23143-46132 2023-09-29 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23066-09729 2023-05-24 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23066-09722 2023-05-24 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23066-09717 2023-05-24 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23066-09684 2023-05-24 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-23065-09137 2023-05-24 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000
A-22151-63196 2022-06-21 withdrawn Nail Technician, NC $25,000

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

  • Vietnam 17

Worker's education

  • None 17

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 15
  • L-2 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 Manicurists and Pedicurists, 20 of 22. 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 22 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 2,045. 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 17 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 NC. 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 19, 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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