The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

16 Green card sponsorships · 5 Temporary work filings · Transportation · FY2010–FY2024
Filing volume Top 11% of 330,651 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
3,200 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2024
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
5 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.
  • Transportation · est. 3,200 U.S. employees
  • 0% Green-card filings denied 0 of 16 green-card filings · FY2010–FY2024 filings
    0 Green-card filings denied FY2010–FY2024 filings
    31% Green-card filings certified 5 of 16 green-card filings · last filed Jun 2024 · FY2010–FY2024
    5 Green-card filings certified FY2010–FY2024
    Jun 2024 Last filing

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

  • Layoff notices are withheld from this panel (WARN coverage 35.7% < 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 9% Green-card + work-visa filings, Transportation 21 filings · Top 9% of 3,581 in Transportation · FY2010–FY2024
Top 11% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 21 filings · Top 11% of 330,651 US employers · FY2010–FY2024
#309 of 3,581 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · Transportation FY2010–FY2024 filings
#35,281 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2010–FY2024 filings
21 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2010–FY2024 filings
0.7% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 21 filings / 3,200 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2010–FY2024 filings
Top 96% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Transportation 21 filings / 3,200 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 96% of 2,483 in Transportation reporting headcount · FY2010–FY2024
Top 36% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2010–FY2024 filings
24% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 5 of this employer's 21 · FY2010–FY2024 filings
#537 of 1,312 Work-visa filings rank · Transportation FY2010–FY2024 filings
#81,978 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2010–FY2024 filings
5 Work-visa filings FY2010–FY2024
0.2% Work-visa filings per employee 5 filings / 3,200 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2010–FY2024 filings
Top 98% Work-visa filings per employee, Transportation 5 filings / 3,200 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 98% of 800 in Transportation with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2010–FY2024
Top 5% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2010–FY2024 filings
76% Green-card filings, share of all filings 16 of this employer's 21 · FY2010–FY2024 filings
#164 of 3,577 Green-card filings rank · Transportation FY2010–FY2024 filings
#10,469 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2010–FY2024 filings
16 Green-card filings FY2010–FY2024
0.5% Green-card filings per employee 16 filings / 3,200 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2010–FY2024 filings
Top 94% Green-card filings per employee, Transportation 16 filings / 3,200 employees (2024, self-reported) · Top 94% of 2,483 in Transportation with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2010–FY2024
Which entities?
  • The Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  • Kansas City Southern RailwayCompany

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 →

5 Certified green-card approvals · FY2010–FY2024
11 Expired 68.8% rate · FY2010–FY2024
0 Denied 0.0% rate · FY2010–FY2024
0 Withdrawn 0.0% rate · FY2010–FY2024

Filings over time

How many green card applications The Kansas City Southern Railway Company has filed each quarter, from FY2010 to today.

FY2012 Q1: 2 filingsFY2013 Q1: 1 filingsFY2015 Q1: 1 filingsFY2016 Q2: 1 filingsFY2018 Q4: 1 filingsFY2019 Q1: 1 filingsFY2020 Q2: 1 filingsFY2021 Q1: 1 filingsFY2021 Q3: 1 filingsFY2022 Q3: 1 filingsFY2023 Q1: 2 filingsFY2024 Q1: 1 filingsFY2024 Q2: 1 filingsFY2024 Q3: 1 filings012FY2012FY2013FY2015FY2019FY2021FY2023FY2024
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Data through FY2024

What this means

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company applied to sponsor 16 workers for green cards between 2010 and 2024. 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: 16 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 ↗ + 7 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
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