Does Chicago Public Schools sponsor visas?

New H-1Bs are first-time petitions with this employer, often after the lottery. Transfers are people already on an H-1B who joined from another employer. Counts are workers USCIS approved on its first decision, and the approval rate compares them with workers it denied that year. Later appeals aren't counted.

Filed as Chicago Public Schools

PERM is the Labor Department step most employment green cards start with. A certification means the company sponsored someone for a green card that year. The certified rate leaves out applications the company withdrew. Later green card steps aren't published by employer.

Sources: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and DOL PERM disclosure data

Quick answers

Does Chicago Public Schools sponsor H-1B visas?

Chicago Public Schools has sponsored H-1B visas recently. USCIS approved 28 of its petitions in FY2025, including 16 for new H-1B workers and 1 transfers from other employers. From Oct 2025 to Jun 2026, it had 18 more approved.

Does Chicago Public Schools sponsor green cards?

Chicago Public Schools has sponsored green cards recently. The Labor Department certified 1 of its PERM applications, the first step of most employment green cards, in FY2025. That's down from 5 in FY2024. From Oct 2025 to Jun 2026, it had 19 more certified.

What is Chicago Public Schools's H-1B approval rate?

In FY2025, USCIS approved 100% of the workers Chicago Public Schools petitioned for on its first decision, out of 28 decided. Later appeals aren't counted.

Where do these numbers come from?

H-1B counts come from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub and green card counts from Labor Department PERM disclosure data, matched to Chicago Public Schools through filing names like Chicago Public Schools. Fiscal years run from October to September. Statuses are our reading of the filings, news reports and what employees share, not statements from Chicago Public Schools.

• UUniversity of Illinois Chicago305 H-1Bs0 green cards
• MMSR Technology Group163 H-1Bs0 green cards
• BBitwise79 H-1Bs37 green cards
• UUchicago Argonne97 H-1Bs0 green cards
• ZZifo Technologies84 H-1Bs12 green cards
• ZZebra Technologies72 H-1Bs21 green cards