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PERM sponsor, #138 of 70,985 by filings

DEVOTED GUARDIANS INC

DEVOTED GUARDIANS INC has 6 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Personal Care Aides · 87% of its filings
Main worksite
Tempe, AZ · 83% of its filings
Industry
Home Health Care Services · NAICS 621610

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This rate is level with the field

Over 267 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 8.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

269

#138 of 70,985

Certified

253

14 denied

Approval

94.8%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$28,808

offered, per year

Median days

386

80 faster than the field

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 193 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

6

of 193 tracked cases. The other 187 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed May 30, 2025, 16 months ago.

Where those 6 are standing

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
6100%

The employer has asked the same officer who denied the case to look at it again, within 30 days of the denial. The request can only use documents DOL already had, so new evidence can't be added to fix what the denial was based on.

None of this changes one case's wait: DOL works one national line. Where DOL is working now is the figure that does.

From DOL's live status of 193 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 193, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 17, 2026

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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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Its newest filings

Filed since DOL's last quarterly file, so the wage and law firm aren't published yet.

The 8 newest. Every filing by this employer is in the case search, live and published together.

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.

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

Only 3 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 80,795 cases, and would be decided around March 13, 2027 (between February 21, 2027 and April 22, 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)
269 published
6 pending
$28,808 median, n=268
Prevailing wage requests
12 published
0 pending
$30,035 median, n=12
H-1B labor condition applications
0 published
0 pending
no wage published

Of its 6 pending PERM cases, 6 (100%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 6 under appeal. Where that sits among every employer.

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, read under the 3 spellings DOL's files use for it; 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 DEVOTED GUARDIANS INC, 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.

Each figure ranked only among sponsors with enough cases for it to mean something. No single score: they measure different things.

  • PERM approval rate

    94.8% of 267 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 9% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

Approval rate

94.8%ahead of 9%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

386 daysahead of 95%

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. The line marks this one.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the sponsors ranked nearest

The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 192 and 448 filings.

Their median wait
462 days
This one
386 days

This one sits 76 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 138 of 70,985 by volume: 137 filed at least as many filings, and 70,847 filed no more.

Just above
LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC. 270 filings
Just below
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 268 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 Personal Care Aides, 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

Personal Care Aides

SOC 31-1122.00 · 234 filings, 87% of everything they file · 94.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the occupation with the most filings, 234 of 269 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

Home Health Care Services

NAICS 621610 · 269 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

  • Arizona 249
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 249 of 269 filings.

Where the work is

  • Tempe, AZ 222
  • Tucson, AZ 27
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 249 of 269 filings.

Who files for them

  1. NEW ERA GOLDEN CARE 117 filings · 95.7% approved
  2. American International & Immigration Law, PC 91 filings · 90.0% approved
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 208 of 269 filings, 77% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The Arizona Republic

    108 cases

  2. Arizona Daily Star

    47 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

    14%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    28%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    2.6%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    51%

  7. Over 180 days

    4.5%
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 2022

305 PERM decisions from FY2022 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 149.

  • certified
  • denied
  • withdrawn

Fiscal years, October to September. A year filed under another name is missing, not zero. FY2026 is partial: DOL's newest file runs through June 2026.

Every year as a table
Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2022 0 0 2
FY2023 21 0 13
FY2024 148 0 1
FY2025 53 11 0
FY2026 52 3 1

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-22136-55849 2023-05-04 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-23100-25114 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23097-24558 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23095-23043 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23095-23030 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23095-23019 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23094-22322 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23094-22289 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
The other 17
A-23093-22230 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23093-22199 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23093-22011 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23093-21962 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23089-20845 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-23088-19796 2023-04-11 withdrawn CAREGIVER, AZ $26,042
A-22160-69018 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67620 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67616 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67548 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67482 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67453 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67443 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67410 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22158-67377 2023-03-14 certified Caregiver, AZ $26,624
A-22157-66644 2023-03-14 certified CAREGIVER, AZ $27,040
A-22157-66643 2023-03-14 certified CAREGIVER, AZ $27,040

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

  • Philippines 22
  • Bangladesh 9
  • Pakistan 2
  • Albania 1
  • Iran 1
  • Italy 1

Worker's education

  • None 36

Visa held when filed

  • NOT IN USA 29

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 2 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 #138 counts this page's cases only.

2 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 Personal Care Aides, 234 of 269. 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 269 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 138. 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 267 decided cases
The queue is national and first in, first out, so this figure follows when the cases were filed as much as it follows the sponsor.
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 AZ. 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 17, 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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