GUILFORD MILLS INC

7 Green card sponsorships · 22 Temporary work filings · Manufacturing · FY2009–FY2011
Filing volume Top 16% of 332,896 US employers by PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ + LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ volume
7 Green-card filings PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings on record
22 Work-visa filings LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filings on record
Employee count unavailable - public companies (SEC) and PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ -self-reporting employers only

What this means for you

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  • We look at green-card filings denied, certified, and last filing.
  • Manufacturing
  • 14% Green-card filings denied 1 of 7 green-card filings · FY2009–FY2011 filings
    57% Green-card filings certified 4 of 7 green-card filings · last filed May 2018 · FY2009–FY2011
    May 2018 Last filing
    Top 24% Green-card + work-visa filings, Manufacturing 29 filings · Top 24% of 22,526 in Manufacturing · FY2009–FY2011
    Top 16% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 29 filings · Top 16% of 332,896 US employers · FY2009–FY2011
    7 Green-card filings FY2009–FY2011
    24% Green-card filings, share of all filings 7 of this employer's 29 · FY2009–FY2011 filings
    Top 10% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #20,555 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #2,569 of 22,482 Green-card filings rank · Manufacturing FY2009–FY2011 filings
    22 Work-visa filings FY2009–FY2011 filings
    76% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 22 of this employer's 29 · FY2009–FY2011 filings
    Top 13% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #29,257 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #2,849 of 13,792 Work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2009–FY2011 filings
    29 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #52,568 of 332,896 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2011 filings
    #5,229 of 22,526 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2009–FY2011 filings

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Public record data. PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ and LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filing data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure files. Methodology →

4 Certified green-card approvals · FY2009–FY2011
2 Expired 33.3% rate · FY2009–FY2011
1 Denied 14.3% rate · FY2009–FY2011
0 Withdrawn 0.0% rate · FY2009–FY2011

Filings over time

How many green card applications GUILFORD MILLS INC has filed each quarter, from FY2009 to today.

FY2009 Q1: 1 filingsFY2010 Q1: 1 filingsFY2011 Q1: 1 filingsFY2016 Q2: 1 filingsFY2016 Q4: 1 filingsFY2017 Q1: 1 filingsFY2018 Q3: 1 filings001FY2009FY2010FY2011FY2017
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

GUILFORD MILLS INC applied to sponsor 7 workers for green cards between 2009 and 2011. A green card application is what an employer files to help a worker stay in the U.S. permanently.

Important: everything on this page is derived from public U.S. Department of Labor records. It is not a statement of fraud, wrongdoing, or hiring intent. It describes observable filing patterns only.

Recent layoff notices

GUILFORD MILLS INC has filed 2 WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act layoff notice(s) with state workforce agencies. These are public layoff notifications required by federal law.

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Filing data sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification public disclosure files. Past filings do not predict future hiring behavior. Employers may petition for review at /dispute.

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