Updated
PERM sponsor, #3,180 of 70,985 by filings
Grace Lutheran Foundation Inc.
- Main job
- Personal Care Aides · 100% of its filings
- Main worksite
- Altoona, WI · 60% of its filings
- Industry
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities · NAICS 623311
Waiting on a case with Grace Lutheran Foundation Inc.?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Too few cases for a rate
15 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
15
#3,180 of 70,985
Certified
15
0 denied
Approval
Not shown
withheld: 15 decided
Median wage
$31,200
offered, per year
Median days
506
40 slower 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.
Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 15 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.
Follow Grace Lutheran Foundation Inc.
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.
How long it takes
How long their cases are taking
- 301 days
Every employer
median of 31,712 decisions in the same 90 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 79,711 cases, and would be decided around March 20, 2027 (between February 28, 2027 and April 29, 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)
- 15 published
- 0 pending
- $31,200 median, n=15
- Prevailing wage requests
- 3 published
- 0 pending
- 3 wages, under the floor
- H-1B labor condition applications
- 1 published
- 0 pending
- 1 wage, under the floor
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 2 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 Grace Lutheran Foundation Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.
Wage requests
- P-100-24204-212297 Registered Nurse $71,302 per year 2024-07-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23151-067538 Registered Nurse $65,998 per year 2023-05-31 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-23151-067520 Registered Nurse $65,998 per year 2023-05-31 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22208-380282 Caregivers 2022-07-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
- P-100-22199-358560 Registered Nurse 2022-07-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
H-1B LCAs
- I-203-21021-026246 Registered Nurse $35.68 per hour 2021-01-21 · CERTIFIED
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.
What its H-1B LCAs were for
From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 1 LCA filed by Grace Lutheran Foundation Inc., 1 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.
New hires and transfers
- New employment 7a 0 · 0%
- Change of employer 7e 0 · 0%
- Continuing 7b 1 · 100%
- Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
- Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
- Amended petition 7f 0 · 0%
Shares of the 1 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.
What each box on the form means
- New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
- Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
- Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
- Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
- Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
- Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.
Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.
Wage level it chose
- Level I 1 · 100%
- Level II 0 · 0%
- Level III 0 · 0%
- Level IV 0 · 0%
Shares of the 1 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 0 of 1 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.
Visas these LCAs support: E-3 (Australia) 1. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.
Against other sponsors
Where it sits among 70,985 sponsors. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
not shownunder 30 decided
Median days to decision
506 daysmiddle of 15 decided, too few to rank
Each bar counts sponsors at that value. More
Against the sponsors ranked nearest
The 120 sponsors ranked nearest filed between 14 and 15 filings.
- Their median wait
- 453 days
- This one
- 506 days
This one sits 53 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 3,180 of 70,985 by volume: 3,179 filed at least as many filings, and 67,805 filed no more.
- Just above
- Vitosha, Inc. 15 filings
- Just below
- Kitestring Consulting Inc. 15 filings
Sponsors filing at the same rate
Ranked either side of this one: they file about as many PERM cases.
- #3,179 Vitosha, Inc. 15 filings · none denied
- #3,181 Kitestring Consulting Inc. 15 filings · none denied
- #3,178 Signet Construction, LLC 15 filings · none denied
- #3,182 SRS Club, LLC 15 filings · none denied
- #3,177 LANDSCAPE EAST WEST 15 filings · 3 denied
- #3,183 Todd & Sargent, Inc. 15 filings · none denied
Sponsors hiring for the same work
The employers filing the most PERM cases for Personal Care Aides, the occupation this sponsor files for most.
- #138 DEVOTED GUARDIANS INC 269 filings · 14 denied
- #185 Homes for Independent Living of Wisconsin LLC 206 filings · none denied
- #293 1st Senior Cares, LLC 127 filings · none denied
- #384 Marsh Country Health Alliance 96 filings · none denied
- #331 RGAC Enterprises, Inc. 111 filings · none denied
- #513 Paragon Community Services LLC 72 filings · none denied
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
SOC 31-1122.00 · 15 filings, 100% of everything they file
How this is counted
These are the occupation with the most filings, 15 of 15 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
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
NAICS 623311 · 15 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
- Wisconsin 15
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 15 of 15 filings.
Where the work is
- Altoona, WI 9
- Chippewa Falls, WI 3
- Eau Claire, WI 3
How this is counted
The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 3 cities cover 15 of 15 filings.
Who files for them
- Law Office of Nhu Muon 15 filings
How this is counted
The law firm named on the application. 15 of 15 filings, 100% of the total.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 15 cases
Wisconsin State Journal
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
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 0.0%
90 to 119 days
- 0.0%
120 to 149 days
- 100%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
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.
History
Year by year since 2020
16 PERM decisions from FY2020 to FY2025, busiest in FY2025 with 15.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
Decided in FY2016 to FY2023
All 1. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.
| Case | Decided | Outcome | Job | Offered wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-19200-33031 | 2020-06-15 | denied | Registered Nurse, WI | $72,051 |
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 Personal Care Aides, 15 of 15. 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 15 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 3,180. 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 15 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 WI. 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 23, 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.