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PERM sponsor, #594 of 70,985 by filings

Zurich American Insurance Company

Zurich American Insurance Company sponsors green cards: it filed 19 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on June 11, 2026. Zurich American Insurance Company has 11 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Software Developers · 33% of its filings
Main worksite
Schaumburg, IL · 83% of its filings
Industry
Direct Insurance (except Life, Health, and Medical) Carriers · NAICS 52412

Waiting on a case with Zurich American Insurance Company?

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This rate is level with the field

Over 63 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 5.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

64

#594 of 70,985

Certified

63

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$134,355

offered, per year

Median days

492

26 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 80 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

11

of 80 tracked cases. The other 69 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed December 23, 2025, 9 months ago.

Where those 11 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
11100%

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 80 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 80, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 21, 2026

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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. Zurich American Insurance Company

    median of 8 decisions in the last 90 days

    306 days

  2. Every employer

    median of 30,133 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 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 80,340 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)
64 published
11 pending
$134,355 median, n=64
Prevailing wage requests
82 published
14 pending
$131,498 median, n=75
H-1B labor condition applications
441 published
0 pending
$130,000 median, n=440

Its median H-1B wage is $130,000 across 440 LCAs, 3.2% lower than its median PERM wage of $134,355 across 64 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 Zurich American Insurance Company, 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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 441 LCAs filed by Zurich American Insurance Company, 422 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

40 positions for new employment, 166 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 40 · 9%
  • Change of employer 7e 166 · 39%
  • Continuing 7b 143 · 34%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 68 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 6 · 1%

Shares of the 422 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 14 · 3%
  • Level II 87 · 21%
  • Level III 137 · 33%
  • Level IV 181 · 43%

Shares of the 419 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; 3 of 422 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 414 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 438. 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 437 · H-1B1 (Chile) 4. 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

    100.0% of 63 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    19 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 13,995 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    145 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 98% of the 27,902 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    26% of 170 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 76% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    76% of 170 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 89% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    99.0% of 208 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 55% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

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

492 daysahead of 11%

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 58 and 70 filings.

Their median wait
467 days
This one
492 days

This one sits 25 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 594 of 70,985 by volume: 593 filed at least as many filings, and 70,391 filed no more.

Just above
Vista Applied Solutions Group, Inc. 64 filings
Just below
American Express Company 64 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 Software Developers, 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

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 21 filings, 33% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 54 of 64 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

Direct Insurance (except Life, Health, and Medical) Carriers

NAICS 52412 · 55 filings

  • Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers 5241269
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 53
  • Minnesota 6
  • New York 2
  • California 1
  • Massachusetts 1
  • Maryland 1
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 6 states cover 64 of 64 filings.

Where the work is

  • Schaumburg, IL 53
  • Anoka, MN 6
  • New York, NY 2
  • Boston, MA 1
  • Owings Mills, MD 1
  • San Francisco, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 64 of 64 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Minsky McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. 64 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 64 of 64 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    46 cases

  2. Star Tribune

    5 cases

  3. The New York Times

    2 cases

  4. The Baltimore Sun

    1 cases

  5. The Boston Globe

    1 cases

  6. San Francisco Chronicle

    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

    56 cases

  2. Job search websites

    56 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    55 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    1 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

    11%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    30%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    34%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    25%

  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 2009

149 PERM decisions from FY2009 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 29.

  • 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
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 1 0 0
FY2012 1 0 0
FY2013 1 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 1 0 0
FY2016 6 0 0
FY2017 7 0 0
FY2018 8 0 1
FY2019 9 0 0
FY2020 5 0 0
FY2021 15 0 0
FY2022 13 0 0
FY2023 13 1 1
FY2024 12 0 0
FY2025 28 0 1
FY2026 23 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 79. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22276-32237 2023-08-17 certified Software Engineer, MN $125,798
A-22223-04385 2023-07-18 certified Business System Analyst III, IL $120,000
A-22262-24195 2023-07-17 certified Software Test Engineer II, MN $95,850
A-22252-19107 2023-07-13 certified Senior Data Integration Developer, IL $134,745
A-22242-14488 2023-06-09 certified Enterprise Data Specialist, NY $153,525
A-22154-65855 2023-03-23 certified Senior Data Engineer, IL $139,300
A-22179-80302 2023-03-23 withdrawn Accumulation Management Analyst, IL $136,775
A-22164-71058 2023-03-08 certified Software Test Engineer, MN $91,350
The other 17
A-22165-71231 2023-03-08 certified Software Test Engineer II, MN $92,290
A-22151-63698 2023-02-10 denied Software Test Engineer, MN $95,424
A-22146-61987 2023-01-23 certified Software Engineer, MN $116,480
A-22146-61931 2023-01-23 certified Software Engineer, MN $103,751
A-22108-42282 2023-01-11 certified Business Systems Analyst III, IL $116,000
A-22094-35340 2023-01-10 certified Salesforce Advanced Developer, IL $130,000
A-22046-12050 2022-11-04 certified Data Engineer III, IL $129,150
A-22026-03054 2022-09-26 certified SAP Functional Configuration Specialist, IL $130,000
A-22007-95331 2022-09-02 certified Guidewire Solutions Architect, IL $152,440
A-21349-86632 2022-08-22 certified Software Engineer, MN $103,751
A-21351-88016 2022-08-17 certified Data Scientist, IL $106,000
A-21326-76770 2022-06-10 certified Application Subject Matter Expert II, IL $131,931
A-21299-63712 2022-05-04 certified Business System Analyst II, IL $111,197
A-21299-63900 2022-05-04 certified Underwriting Specialist - Energy Onshore Property, TX $129,948
A-21292-60278 2022-04-25 certified Enterprise Architect, IL $180,000
A-21267-49208 2022-03-28 certified Business Systems Analyst, IL $127,500
A-21256-43463 2022-03-14 certified Business Systems Analyst III, IL $121,389

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 55
  • China 4
  • Switzerland 4
  • Canada 3
  • United Kingdom 3
  • Ireland 2

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 45
  • Master's 34

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 62
  • L-1 16
  • L-2 1

Schools

  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 7
  • DEPAUL UNIVERSITY 2
  • MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY 2
  • THE CITY UNIVERSITY 2
  • UNIVERSITY OF KERALA 2
  • WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 13
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 7
  • COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 7
  • ACTUARIAL SCIENCE 5
  • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 4
  • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 3

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 3 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 #594 counts this page's cases only.

4 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
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 21 of 64. 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 64 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 594. 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 63 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 21, 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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