LOAD TRAIL

50 Green card sponsorships · 33 Temporary work filings · Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2017
Filing volume Top 4% 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
50 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
33 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

One record, five questions. Ask as many as you like.

  • We look at green-card filings denied, certified, and last filing.
  • Manufacturing
  • 62% Green-card filings denied 31 of 50 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2017 filings
    31 Green-card filings denied FY2008–FY2017 filings
    32% Green-card filings certified 16 of 50 green-card filings · last filed Nov 2016 · FY2008–FY2017
    16 Green-card filings certified FY2008–FY2017
    Nov 2016 Last filing

    2 more: ranks, percentiles, shares, per-employee.

  • Layoff notices are withheld from this panel (WARN coverage 4.9% < 60%) → see the WARN notices tab. Coverage gate
  • History, not a hiring promise.

Every measurement we computed

The same for every question above, so it is shown once here. Ranks count filings, never opinions; each card names what it counted and the group it was ranked against.

Top 6% Green-card + work-visa filings, Manufacturing 83 filings · Top 6% of 22,526 in Manufacturing · FY2008–FY2017
Top 4% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 83 filings · Top 4% of 332,896 US employers · FY2008–FY2017
#1,255 of 22,526 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2017 filings
#12,699 of 332,896 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2017 filings
83 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2017 filings
Top 10% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2008–FY2017 filings
40% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 33 of this employer's 83 · FY2008–FY2017 filings
#2,077 of 13,792 Work-visa filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2017 filings
#21,824 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2017 filings
33 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2017 filings
-94% Green-card filings, FY2017 vs FY2016 2 vs 36
Top 2% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2008–FY2017 filings
60% Green-card filings, share of all filings 50 of this employer's 83 · FY2008–FY2017 filings
#501 of 22,482 Green-card filings rank · Manufacturing FY2008–FY2017 filings
#3,741 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2017 filings
50 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2017

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 →

16 Certified green-card approvals · FY2008–FY2017
2 Expired 11.1% rate · FY2008–FY2017
31 Denied 62.0% rate · FY2008–FY2017
1 Withdrawn 2.0% rate · FY2008–FY2017

Filings over time

How many green card applications LOAD TRAIL has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

FY2008 Q1: 4 filingsFY2009 Q1: 2 filingsFY2010 Q1: 3 filingsFY2011 Q1: 3 filingsFY2016 Q3: 8 filingsFY2016 Q4: 28 filingsFY2017 Q1: 2 filings01428FY2008FY2009FY2010FY2011FY2017
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

LOAD TRAIL applied to sponsor 50 workers for green cards between 2008 and 2017. 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.

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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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