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PERM law firm, #996 of 5,571 by cases
TSAI OFFICE
- Biggest client
- CHINESE PARTNER GROUP, LLC · 35% of its cases
- Main job
- Cooks, Restaurant · 27% of its cases
- Filed from
- Maryland · The address on its filings
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Cases
37
#996 of 5,571
Certified
31
6 denied
Approval
83.8%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$35,000
offered, per year
Median days
414
55 faster than the field
The practice
Who they file for, what the jobs are and where the work sits, from the employer, occupation and worksite on their own applications.
Who they file for
- CHINESE PARTNER GROUP, LLC 13 filings
- SWEET BUN, LLC 12 filings
- YUMMY HOUSE CHINA BISTRO, INC 6 filings
- YUMMY HOUSE GAINSVILLE, LLC 5 filings
- SWEET BUN TPA, LLC 1 filings
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 37 of 37 filings, 100% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 35-2014.00 · 10 filings, 27% of everything they file
How this is counted
These are the 4 occupations with the most filings, 21 of 37 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.
Where the jobs are
- Florida 37
How this is counted
The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. This state covers 37 of 37 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 12 cases
The Herald-Tribune
- 7 cases
GAINSVILLE SUN
- 5 cases
GAINSVILLE COM NEWSPAPER
- 5 cases
Tampa Bay Times
How this is counted
The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.
How long before filing it began
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 28%
60 to 89 days
- 21%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 0.0%
150 to 180 days
- 52%
Over 180 days
How this is counted
Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.
Against other firms
Where it sits among 5,571 firms. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
83.8%ahead of 4%
Median days to decision
414 daysahead of 93%
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 34 and 42 cases.
- Their median wait
- 471 days
- This one
- 414 days
This one sits 57 days ahead of them.
Why no approval rate
A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.
Where this sits in the ranking
Ranked 996 of 5,571 by volume: 995 filed at least as many cases, and 4,575 filed no more.
- Just above
- International Services Corporation 38 cases
- Just below
- Haven Law Group, APC 37 cases
Other Maryland firms at this volume
Practices filing from Maryland at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from Maryland at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. State is the address on the filing, so a national firm appears under whichever office signed the form.
- #995 · MD International Services Corporation 38 cases · 5 denied
- #980 · MD Offit Kurman PA 39 cases · 11 denied
- #945 · MD ISMAYIL LLC 41 cases · none denied
- #893 · MD Law Offices of Donald Mooers 45 cases · none denied
- #1,123 · MD Fan, Fitzpatrick & Thompson, LLP 31 cases · 1 denied
- #1,146 · MD MVP LAW GROUP, P.A. 30 cases · none denied
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Notes on these numbers
What these numbers don't say
5 notes
- The wage is the job, not the payer
- Their filings are led by Cooks, Restaurant, 10 of 37. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles their clients file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
- Nothing here is waiting
- All 37 of the cases on this page carry a decision date, because every row in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still in the queue is in none of these counts. The live tracker that does see pending cases records the employer on each one and not the firm, so a firm's current queue cannot be broken out at all. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
- The approval rate barely separates firms
- This firm is at 83.8%. Across every firm with enough decided cases to carry a rate the median is above 99%, and hundreds have no denials at all. Placing near the top of that axis mostly means being level with the rest of it.
- None of this measures the advice
- It measures filings that DOL approved or denied. Whether the case was worth filing, what it cost, and how the firm handled an audit aren’t in these files.
- A median over 37 decided cases
- DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so this says when the firm's cases were filed at least as much as anything about the firm. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.
The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built
Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this firm until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.