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PERM sponsor, #821 of 70,985 by filings

Guardian Healthcare Providers, Inc.

Main job
Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists · 98% of its filings
Main worksite
Abilene, TX · 13% of its filings
Industry
Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services · NAICS 56131

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This rate is level with the field

Over 47 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.6% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

48

#821 of 70,985

Certified

47

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$61,360

offered, per year

Median days

480

14 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.

In the queue right now 82 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 82 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 82 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 24, 2026

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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 32,341 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 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 79,928 cases, and would be decided around March 24, 2027 (between March 4, 2027 and May 3, 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)
48 published
0 pending
$61,360 median, n=48
Prevailing wage requests
889 published
0 pending
$59,842 median, n=888
H-1B labor condition applications
186 published
0 pending
$54,080 median, n=186

Its median H-1B wage is $54,080 across 186 LCAs, 11.9% lower than its median PERM wage of $61,360 across 48 cases. Different forms, different years and different jobs sit behind the two medians, so this is a gap in what was filed, not a finding.

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 Guardian Healthcare Providers, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

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.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 186 LCAs filed by Guardian Healthcare Providers, Inc., 140 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

174 positions for new employment, 25 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 174 · 33%
  • Change of employer 7e 25 · 5%
  • Continuing 7b 110 · 21%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 86 · 16%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 45 · 8%
  • Amended petition 7f 94 · 18%

Shares of the 534 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 20 · 14%
  • Level II 120 · 86%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 140 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 140 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.

What it declared on Section H

H-1B-dependent
Yes
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 18, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 57 of 186 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 186. Both are the employer's own answers.

What the two answers mean

H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.

Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.

Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR

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

    100.0% of 47 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 67% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

  • H-1B LCAs certified in the last 24 months

    49 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 93% of the 27,849 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    17% of 65 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 57% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

  • Share of H-1B LCAs at wage level III or IV

    0.0% of 54 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 4% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

  • USCIS H-1B approval rate, last 3 fiscal years

    94.8% of 116 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 12% of the 5,810 sponsors with 20 or more USCIS decisions.

Also on its record

  • Its newest LCA that answered declared it H-1B dependent (decided 2026-06-26).
Position in the field 1,343 sponsors with 30+ decided

Approval rate

100.0%ahead of 34%, level with 891 more

0% 100%

Median days to decision

480 daysahead of 29%

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 45 and 52 filings.

Their median wait
464 days
This one
480 days

This one sits 16 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 821 of 70,985 by volume: 820 filed at least as many filings, and 70,164 filed no more.

Just above
Tractor Supply Company 48 filings
Just below
Botha Trucking LLC 48 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 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists, 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

Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists

SOC 29-2011.00 · 47 filings, 98% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the occupation with the most filings, 47 of 48 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

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services

NAICS 56131 · 36 filings

  • Temporary Help Services 56132012
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

  • Arkansas 15
  • Texas 10
  • Kentucky 4
  • New Mexico 4
  • Tennessee 4
  • Alabama 3
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. These 6 states cover 40 of 48 filings.

Where the work is

  • Abilene, TX 6
  • North Little Rock, AR 5
  • Cleveland, TN 4
  • San Angelo, TX 4
  • St. Joseph, MO 3
  • Carlsbad, NM 2
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 6 cities cover 24 of 48 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

    7 cases

  2. Abilene Reporter

    5 cases

  3. Arkansas Democrat Gazette

    4 cases

  4. Chattanooga Times Free Press

    4 cases

  5. Las Cruces Sun-News

    4 cases

  6. San Angelo Standard Times

    4 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.

Additional steps it used

  1. Job search websites

    47 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    33 cases

  3. On-campus recruiting

    30 cases

  4. Radio or TV ads

    25 cases

  5. Trade or professional organizations

    17 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    4.2%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    10%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    42%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    13%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    31%

  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 2008

50 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2026 with 39.

  • 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
FY2008 0 1 0
FY2009 0 0 0
FY2010 1 0 0
FY2011 0 0 0
FY2012 0 0 0
FY2013 0 0 0
FY2014 0 0 0
FY2015 0 0 0
FY2016 0 0 0
FY2017 0 0 0
FY2018 0 0 0
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 0 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 0 0 1
FY2025 8 0 0
FY2026 39 0 0

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 10 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 #821 counts this page's cases only.

49 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 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists, 47 of 48. 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 48 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 821. 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 47 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 AR. 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 24, 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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