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PERM sponsor, #4,365 of 70,985 by filings

Care Dental of Wellington, P.A.

Main job
Dental Assistants · 55% of its filings
Main worksite
Wellington, FL · 100% of its filings
Industry
Offices of Dentists · NAICS 621210

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Too few cases for a rate

9 decided filings: too few for an approval rate.

Why

Across every PERM case DOL decided in this window, 3.20% were denied. At that rate a file this size comes back clean most of the time whatever the sponsor did, so a percentage would be a fact about how few cases there are. Telling a clean record apart from the field takes about 117 decided cases.

Filings

11

#4,365 of 70,985

Certified

8

1 denied

Approval

Not shown

withheld: 9 decided

Median wage

$34,424

offered, per year

Median days

466

middle of 9 decided

Right now

DOL's live record of its cases, read every day, and what it has done to them as a group.

In the queue right now 8 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 8 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 8 of this sponsor's cases in DOL's live status are decided: nothing of theirs is in the queue. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

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What DOL has done to its cases as a group

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How long it takes

How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 28,615 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.

Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 81,062 cases, and would be decided around March 16, 2027 (between February 24, 2027 and April 25, 2027). Estimate another date

Every program

Across DOL's programs

The wage request, the PERM and the H-1B labor condition application, one line each.

PERM (green card)
11 published
0 pending
$34,424 median, n=11
Prevailing wage requests
23 published
0 pending
$36,462 median, n=23
H-1B labor condition applications
0 published
0 pending
no wage published

Every case across these programs is in the search.

How these are counted

Medians are of the published rows with a usable wage, annualised from whatever unit the filing quoted, and withheld under 10 wages. DOL publishes no employer number, so filings are matched by the employer's legal name; another employer with the same legal name would be counted here too. The PERM is the green-card step; the wage request comes months before it, and the LCA is the separate form for an H-1B. DOL publishes each in its own file, and its live record shows what is still open.

Its newest wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Care Dental of Wellington, P.A., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

None confirmed yet.

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.

Against other sponsors

Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.

Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

not shownunder 30 decided

0% 100%

Median days to decision

466 daysmiddle of 9 decided, too few to rank

5d 1152d
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. Sponsors with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. This sponsor has 9 decided cases, so its median days is marked but left unranked, and no approval rate is drawn at all.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 10 and 11 filings.

Their median wait
447 days
This one
466 days

This one sits 19 days behind 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 4,365 of 70,985 by volume: 4,364 filed at least as many filings, and 66,620 filed no more.

Just above
Greycell Labs Inc 11 filings
Just below
BMR INFOTEK, INC 11 filings

Sponsors filing at the same rate

Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.

Sponsors hiring for the same work

The employers filing the most PERM cases for Dental Assistants, the occupation this sponsor files for most.

What they file, and where

A rank says how much. It says nothing about what the work is, which is the part a job offer from this sponsor turns on.

What the jobs are

Dental Assistants

SOC 31-9091.00 · 6 filings, 55% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 2 occupations with the most filings, 9 of 11 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.

The industry they declared

Offices of Dentists

NAICS 621210 · 11 filings

How this is counted

The NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with the Census Bureau's title for it. DOL publishes the code alone, and an employer can file under more than one.

Where the jobs are

  • Florida 11
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 11 of 11 filings.

Where the work is

  • Wellington, FL 11
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. This city covers 11 of 11 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Law Office of Shayne J. Epstein, PA 11 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 11 of 11 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Sun-Sentinel

    8 cases
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

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    50%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    13%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    38%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    0.0%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
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.

Where every PERM employer recruits

History

Year by year since 2018

47 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2025, busiest in FY2022 with 10.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2025 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2018 2 0 0
FY2019 5 1 0
FY2020 4 0 1
FY2021 3 0 0
FY2022 9 0 1
FY2023 6 1 3
FY2024 2 1 2
FY2025 6 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 36. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22179-80256 2023-09-19 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-22179-80247 2023-09-19 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-23080-16159 2023-08-25 withdrawn Dental Assistant, FL $31,782
A-23046-02228 2023-08-25 withdrawn Dental Assistant, FL $31,782
A-22243-15201 2023-08-09 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-22242-14184 2023-08-08 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-22242-14177 2023-06-21 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-21285-57464 2023-06-09 denied Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
The other 17
A-23046-02264 2023-03-21 withdrawn Dental Assistant, FL $31,782
A-22048-12807 2023-02-28 certified Dental Assitant, FL $28,746
A-22018-99064 2022-09-28 certified Dental Assitant, FL $28,746
A-21316-72465 2022-06-30 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-21320-73960 2022-06-28 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-21316-72406 2022-06-28 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-21281-56274 2022-04-19 certified Dental Assistant, FL $28,746
A-21120-80520 2022-03-10 certified Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-21117-78931 2022-03-09 certified Dental Asssitants, FL $27,539
A-21077-64041 2022-02-10 certified Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-21173-05235 2021-12-01 withdrawn Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-20339-29295 2021-11-01 certified Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-20295-12223 2021-09-21 certified Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-20304-15100 2021-05-18 certified Dental Assistant, FL $27,539
A-20153-60620 2021-01-21 certified Dental Assistant, FL $30,784
A-19291-72556 2020-08-06 certified Dental Assistant, FL $29,203
A-20055-22616 2020-07-06 certified Dental Assistant, FL $30,784

Who they sponsored, FY2016 to FY2023

From DOL's old form; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. Top six of each.

Country of citizenship

  • Brazil 31
  • Bangladesh 2
  • Venezuela 2
  • Peru 1

Worker's education

  • High School 30
  • Bachelor's 4
  • Associate's 1
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 5
  • F-2 2
  • B-2 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSIDADE MUNICIPAL DE SAO CAETANO DO SUL 2
  • BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 1
  • CENTRO EDUCACIONAL FELICIANO AZEVEDO 1
  • CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DO PLANALDO CENTRAL 1
  • COLEGIO CRUZEIRO DO SUL - ESCOLA DE 1 E 2 GRAUS 1
  • COLEGIO CRUZEIRO DO SUL ESCOLA DE 1 E 2 GRAU 1

Fields of study

  • HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE 18
  • HIGH SCHOOL 8
  • BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION 2
  • DENTISTRY 2
  • HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION 2
  • ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN NURSING 1

Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one sponsor can appear under several. The 23 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same sponsor; some are a different one. Rank #4,365 counts this page's cases only.

204 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Dental Assistants, 6 of 11. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles they 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.
Volume doesn’t change the wait
DOL works a single national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so these 11 filings bought no priority: a company with four thousand waits exactly as long as one with three.
The name is a legal entity
DOL prints whatever went on the form, and here that name ranks 4,365. A group that files through several subsidiaries appears as several rows, and one that files everything through a parent appears once, so a rank is a rank among printed names rather than among companies.
A median over 9 decided cases
That’s a middle of a handful, and it moves entirely with which months those few cases were filed in.
Two sources, and they do not add up
The filing counts come from DOL's disclosure files, where every row already carries a decision date, so nothing pending is in them. The queue figures come from a live per-case tracker with its own coverage and its own as-of date. Subtracting one from the other gives a number that means nothing. The worksite on most of these is FL. Where the queue stands overall 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

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

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 19, 2026 · daily

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.

Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.

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