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PERM sponsor, #362 of 70,985 by filings

VAStek Inc.

VAStek Inc. sponsors green cards: it filed 18 PERM cases in the last 12 months, the newest on September 10, 2026. VAStek Inc. has 14 PERM cases waiting with DOL.

Main job
Validation Engineers · 56% of its filings
Main worksite
San Diego, CA · 99% of its filings
Industry
All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · NAICS 541990

Waiting on a case with VAStek Inc.?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

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This rate is level with the field

Over 100 decided filings, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 3.7% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Filings

101

#362 of 70,985

Certified

100

0 denied

Approval

100.0%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$90,459

offered, per year

Median days

413

53 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 98 cases in the live tracker

Waiting on a decision

14

of 98 tracked cases. The other 84 have been decided.

The oldest one still waiting was filed August 20, 2025, 14 months ago.

Where those 14 are standing

ANALYST REVIEW
1393%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

RECONSIDERATION APPEALS
17%

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 98 of this sponsor's cases: read this share against 98, never against the lifetime filings above. Live case tracker, as of October 19, 2026

Follow VAStek 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.

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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 29,263 decisions in the same 90 days

    302 days

Only 1 of their cases was 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 80,773 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)
101 published
14 pending
$90,459 median, n=101
Prevailing wage requests
58 published
0 pending
$94,578 median, n=57
H-1B labor condition applications
1,011 published
5 pending
$86,861 median, n=1,011

Its median H-1B wage is $86,861 across 1,011 LCAs, 4.0% lower than its median PERM wage of $90,459 across 101 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.

Of its 14 pending PERM cases, 1 (7.1%) sit outside DOL's normal queue: 1 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 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 VAStek Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25310-383428 Quality Assurance Specialist $94,806 per year 2025-11-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25310-383427 Quality Assurance Specialist $74,651 per year 2025-11-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25310-383417 Quality Assurance Specialist $84,677 per year 2025-11-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25310-383400 Quality Assurance Specialist $169,874 per year 2025-11-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25310-383385 Deviation Investigator $59,197 per year 2025-11-06 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

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: 1,011 LCAs filed by VAStek Inc., 1,010 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

328 positions for new employment, 184 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 328 · 31%
  • Change of employer 7e 184 · 18%
  • Continuing 7b 78 · 7%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 14 · 1%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 9 · 1%
  • Amended petition 7f 437 · 42%

Shares of the 1,050 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 344 · 34%
  • Level II 516 · 51%
  • Level III 94 · 9%
  • Level IV 56 · 6%

Shares of the 1,010 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 1,010 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 23, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 897 of 905 LCAs, and a willful violator on 4 of 1,010. 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

Visas these LCAs support: H-1B 1,010 · E-3 (Australia) 1. E-3 and H-1B1 use the same LCA as the H-1B.

Seasonal work: H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

Filed by VAStek Inc., as DOL's case-status service shows them.

All H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings by this employer

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 100 decided PERM cases

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

  • PERM filings in the last 12 months

    18 filed in the last 12 months

    Higher than 95% of the 13,965 sponsors that filed in the last 12 months.

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

    249 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 99% of the 27,903 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    18% of 344 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 59% of the 5,558 sponsors with 20 or more certified positions.

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

    6.9% of 304 certified LCAs with a level, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 21% of the 5,177 sponsors with 20 or more leveled LCAs.

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

    93.2% of 221 USCIS decisions

    Higher than 8% 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 2026-06-30).
  • It declared itself a willful violator on 4 LCAs.
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

413 daysahead of 84%

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 87 and 124 filings.

Their median wait
463 days
This one
413 days

This one sits 50 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 362 of 70,985 by volume: 361 filed at least as many filings, and 70,623 filed no more.

Just above
LLS, Inc 102 filings
Just below
Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. 101 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 Validation Engineers, 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

Validation Engineers

SOC 17-2112.02 · 57 filings, 56% of everything they file · 100.0% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 84 of 101 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

All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

NAICS 541990, 54199 · 100 filings

  • Custom Computer Programming Services 5415111
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

  • California 101
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 101 of 101 filings.

Where the work is

  • San Diego, CA 100
  • Chula Vista, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 2 cities cover 101 of 101 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Reddy & Neumann P.C. 95 filings · 100.0% approved
  2. Reddy Neumann Brown PC 5 filings
  3. BBI Law Group, P.C. 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 101 of 101 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The San Diego Union-Tribune

    55 cases

  2. San Diego Tribune

    1 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. The employer's website

    56 cases

  2. Job search websites

    56 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    56 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

    0.0%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    0.0%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    11%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    70%

  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

147 PERM decisions from FY2018 to FY2026, busiest in FY2024 with 54.

  • 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
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 7 0 0
FY2022 7 0 0
FY2023 27 0 0
FY2024 54 0 0
FY2025 30 0 1
FY2026 16 0 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 46. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22210-97108 2023-08-29 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22209-96163 2023-08-29 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22193-87185 2023-08-29 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22172-75573 2023-08-29 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22171-74770 2023-08-29 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22173-76664 2023-08-09 certified Analytical Chemist, CA $61,901
A-22083-30026 2023-01-26 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
A-22061-18015 2023-01-19 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
The other 17
A-22060-17456 2023-01-19 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
A-22053-14562 2023-01-19 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
A-22026-03144 2023-01-19 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
A-22024-01746 2023-01-19 certified Quality Engineer, CA $118,747
A-22012-96921 2023-01-19 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-21355-89312 2023-01-19 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22032-05933 2023-01-11 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22073-24931 2023-01-10 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22063-19134 2023-01-09 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22026-03193 2022-12-28 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22049-13485 2022-12-14 certified Validation Engineer (Job Code 001), CA $98,904
A-22054-15174 2022-12-09 certified Manufacturing Engineer (Job Code 001), CA $98,904
A-22053-14524 2022-12-09 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-22052-14071 2022-12-07 certified Manufacturing Engineer, CA $98,904
A-21342-83266 2022-12-06 certified Validation Engineer (Job Code 001), CA $98,904
A-21335-79844 2022-12-06 certified Manufacturing Engineer (Job Code 001), CA $98,904
A-22047-12166 2022-11-15 certified Validation Engineer (Job Code 001), CA $98,904

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

  • India 44
  • Nepal 1
  • Pakistan 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 40
  • Bachelor's 5
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 6
  • NOT IN USA 2

Schools

  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES 3
  • LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 3
  • TRINE UNIVERSITY 3
  • ANNA UNIVERSITY 2
  • BRADLEY UNIVERSITY 2
  • GANNON UNIVERSITY 2

Fields of study

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 13
  • ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT 6
  • AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 2
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE 2
  • INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 2

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 Validation Engineers, 57 of 101. 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 101 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 362. 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 100 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 CA. 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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