Merastar Insurance Company

16 Green card sponsorships · 108 Temporary work filings · Finance & Insurance · FY2009–FY2026
Filing volume Top 3% 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
238 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2025
16 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
108 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

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.
  • Finance & Insurance · est. 238 U.S. employees
  • 6% Green-card filings denied 1 of 16 green-card filings · FY2009–FY2026 filings
    1 Green-card filings denied FY2009–FY2026 filings
    69% Green-card filings certified 11 of 16 green-card filings · last filed May 2026 · FY2009–FY2026
    11 Green-card filings certified FY2009–FY2026
    May 2026 Last filing

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

  • Layoff notices are withheld from this panel (WARN coverage 4.8% < 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, Finance & Insurance 124 filings · Top 6% of 8,325 in Finance & Insurance · FY2009–FY2026
Top 3% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 124 filings · Top 3% of 332,896 US employers · FY2009–FY2026
#455 of 8,325 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2009–FY2026 filings
#6,688 of 332,896 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
124 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2009–FY2026 filings
52.1% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 124 filings / 238 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 4% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2009–FY2026 filings
87% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 108 of this employer's 124 · FY2009–FY2026 filings
#524 of 6,269 Work-visa filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2009–FY2026 filings
#8,951 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
108 Work-visa filings FY2009–FY2026
45.4% Work-visa filings per employee 108 filings / 238 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 5% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2009–FY2026 filings
13% Green-card filings, share of all filings 16 of this employer's 124 · FY2009–FY2026 filings
#680 of 8,270 Green-card filings rank · Finance & Insurance FY2009–FY2026 filings
#10,469 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2009–FY2026 filings
16 Green-card filings FY2009–FY2026
6.7% Green-card filings per employee 16 filings / 238 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026 filings
Top 48% Green-card filings per employee, Finance & Insurance 16 filings / 238 employees (2025, self-reported) · Top 48% of 5,190 in Finance & Insurance with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2009–FY2026
Which entities?
  • Merastar Insurance Company
  • Merastar Insurance Company (A Kemper Subsidiary)

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 →

11 Certified green-card approvals · FY2009–FY2026
3 Expired 21.4% rate · FY2009–FY2026
1 Denied 6.2% rate · FY2009–FY2026
1 Withdrawn 6.2% rate · FY2009–FY2026

Filings over time

How many green card applications Merastar Insurance Company has filed each quarter, from FY2009 to today.

FY2011 Q1: 2 filingsFY2019 Q1: 1 filingsFY2022 Q4: 1 filingsFY2023 Q4: 1 filingsFY2024 Q1: 1 filingsFY2025 Q1: 1 filingsFY2025 Q3: 6 filingsFY2026 Q2: 2 filingsFY2026 Q3: 1 filings036FY2011FY2019FY2024FY2025
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

Merastar Insurance Company applied to sponsor 16 workers for green cards between 2009 and 2026. 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.

Subsidiaries 1

Combined: 14 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 ↗ + 95 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

Subsidiary vs All vs Industry Trend (8Q) Green card sponsorships Temporary work filings Employees
Merastar Insurance Company (A Kemper Subsidiary)
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