Does UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON sponsor green cards?

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON has filed 198 PERM (green card) applications with the U.S. Department of Labor based on public disclosure data.

How many H-1B visas does UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON sponsor?

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON has filed 1,494 LCA (temporary work visa) applications, the precursor step for H-1B and other non-immigrant visa filings.

What is UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON's government approval rate?

Across 198 PERM filings, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON has a U.S. Department of Labor approval rate of 100.0% (denial rate 0.0%).

How long has UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON been filing visa applications?

Public DOL records for UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON cover fiscal years 2008 through 2020.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

198 Green card sponsorships · 1,494 Temporary work filings · Education · FY2008–FY2020

Filing volume Top 1% of 330,651 US employers by PERM 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 jobI-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 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 DOLCap 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

22,000 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2019

198 Green-card filings PERM 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 jobI-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

1,494 Work-visa filings LCA 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 DOLCap 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

$96,000 Median offered wage FY2017 n=7 PERM 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 jobI-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 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary (25-1032)

What this means for you

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We look at green-card filings denied, certified, and last filing.
Education · est. 22,000 U.S. employees Showing 3 of 5 measurements · Show all →
2% Green-card filings denied 4 of 198 green-card filings · FY2008–FY2020 filings

4 Green-card filings denied FY2008–FY2020 filings

43% Green-card filings certified 85 of 198 green-card filings · last filed Oct 2019 · FY2008–FY2020

85 Green-card filings certified FY2008–FY2020

Oct 2019 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 1% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 1,692 filings · Top 1% of 330,651 US employers · FY2008–FY2020

#71 of 7,270 Green-card + work-visa filings, Education 1,692 filings · #71 of 7,270 in Education · FY2008–FY2020

#595 of 330,651 Green-card + work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2020 filings

1,692 Green-card + work-visa filings FY2008–FY2020 filings

7.7% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee 1,692 filings / 22,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2020 filings

Top 61% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Education 1,692 filings / 22,000 employees (2019, self-reported) · Top 61% of 4,213 in Education reporting headcount · FY2008–FY2020

Top 1% Work-visa filings percentile · all US of 231,601 employers · FY2008–FY2020 filings

88% Work-visa filings, share of all filings 1,494 of this employer's 1,692 · FY2008–FY2020 filings

#68 of 5,010 Work-visa filings rank · Education FY2008–FY2020 filings

#574 of 231,601 Work-visa filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2020 filings

1,494 Work-visa filings FY2008–FY2020

6.8% Work-visa filings per employee 1,494 filings / 22,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2020 filings

Top 58% Work-visa filings per employee, Education 1,494 filings / 22,000 employees (2019, self-reported) · Top 58% of 2,975 in Education with work-visa filings and a reported headcount · FY2008–FY2020

+43% Green-card filings, FY2019 vs FY2018 20 vs 14

Top 1% Green-card filings percentile · all US of 210,333 employers · FY2008–FY2020 filings

12% Green-card filings, share of all filings 198 of this employer's 1,692 · FY2008–FY2020 filings

#55 of 7,270 Green-card filings rank · Education FY2008–FY2020 filings

#835 of 210,333 Green-card filings rank · all US FY2008–FY2020 filings

198 Green-card filings FY2008–FY2020

0.9% Green-card filings per employee 198 filings / 22,000 employees · self-reported headcount · FY2008–FY2020 filings

Public record data. PERM 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 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 →

85 Certified green-card approvals · FY2008–FY2020

103 Expired 54.8% rate · FY2008–FY2020

4 Denied 2.0% rate · FY2008–FY2020

6 Withdrawn 3.0% rate · FY2008–FY2020

Filings over time

How many green card applications UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON has filed each quarter, from FY2008 to today.

What this means

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON applied to sponsor 198 workers for green cards between 2008 and 2020. 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.

Offered wages on this employer’s filings

Median annual wage this employer offered, by occupation and fiscal year, over its own PERM 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 — beside the prevailing wage the U.S. Department of Labor determined on the same filings. Two separate figures, never a ratio. Hourly, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly wages are converted to an annual figure using the unit DOL printed for that wage. Methodology →

7 further roles in this employer’s most recent complete year are not shown: fewer than five filings per role, which is too few to publish a wage without describing individual people.

Median offered and prevailing annual wages by occupation and fiscal year. Sortable by occupation, fiscal year and filing count only.
Occupation	Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	Median prevailing	Wage level
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1032	FY2017	7	$96,000	$63,500	Level I
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1032	FY2016	5	$95,000	$66,860	Level I
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 25-1071.00	FY2008	6	$155,000	$43,020	LEVEL I

“Not reported” means the Department of Labor published no such figure on those filings — from FY2025 its PERM 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 ↗ disclosure file carries the employer’s offered wage only, with no prevailing-wage determination and no wage level. It does not mean the figure is unknown to us; it means DOL did not publish one.

Wage & Hour Enforcement

Source: DOL Wage & Hour Division WHISARD concluded compliance actions since FY2005. Back wages, civil money penalties, and employees affected, broken down by statute (FLSA, H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ , H-2A, H-2B, SCA, Davis-Bacon, FMLA). Data mirrored nightly from the WHISARD dataset.

No concluded Back wages Back wages — Wage & Hour Division FLSA findings Money owed to workers after a DOL wage-and-hour investigation or settlementCivil, not criminal; includes settlements + PAID self-reports; back wages ≠ fines. Use this label rather than the colloquial criminal-sounding one (§3)Official source ↗ enforcement actions found for this employer in the WHISARD dataset (FY2005-present).

USCIS visa petition outcomes

Source: USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ Employer Data Hub. Petition decisions by fiscal year.

How many visa applications became actual visas

36.8%

376 decisions / 1,022 certified LCAs

Total USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ decisions

376

374 initial approvals, 2 initial denials

Worker retention pattern

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initial approvals per continuing approval, USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ hub, FY2009-FY2019

FY	New visa approvals	New visa rejections	Renewal approvals	Renewal rejections	Total
2019	125	1	77	9	212
2018	2	0	0	0	2
2015	72	0	46	1	119
2014	82	1	85	0	168
2011	92	0	131	0	223
2009	1	0	0	0	1

6 fiscal years of USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ petition data. Data from USCIS USCIS — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Reviews petitions and grants immigration statusNot ICE/CBPOfficial source ↗ H-1B H-1B — H-1B Specialty Occupation Temporary employer-sponsored visa for degree-level specialty roles; 85K annual cap via lotteryJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOLCap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS) (you are here)Nonimmigrant/temporary — never "immigrant worker"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ Employer Data Hub.

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