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PERM sponsor, #971 of 70,985 by filings

Westways Staffing Services, Inc.

Main job
Nursing Assistants · 85% of its filings
Main worksite
Fairview, OK · 41% of its filings
Industry
Temporary Help Services · NAICS 561320

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Filings

41

#971 of 70,985

Certified

33

7 denied

Approval

82.5%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$29,536

offered, per year

Median days

485

19 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 35 cases in the live tracker

Nothing for this sponsor is waiting on a decision. All 35 of their cases in the live tracker are closed.

All 35 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 22, 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.

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 31,475 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 79,834 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 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)
41 published
0 pending
$29,536 median, n=41
Prevailing wage requests
148 published
0 pending
$68,474 median, n=148
H-1B labor condition applications
40 published
0 pending
$75,067 median, n=40

Its median H-1B wage is $75,067 across 40 LCAs, 154% higher than its median PERM wage of $29,536 across 41 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 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 Westways Staffing Services, 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: 40 LCAs filed by Westways Staffing Services, Inc., 39 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

23 positions for new employment, 11 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 23 · 59%
  • Change of employer 7e 11 · 28%
  • Continuing 7b 3 · 8%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 1 · 3%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 2 · 5%

Shares of the 39 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 26 · 67%
  • Level II 13 · 33%
  • Level III 0 · 0%
  • Level IV 0 · 0%

Shares of the 39 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 39 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
No
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed June 22, 2026. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 31 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 35. 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 35 · E-3 (Australia) 5. 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.

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

  • PERM approval rate

    82.5% of 40 decided PERM cases

    Higher than 4% of the 1,343 sponsors with 30 or more decided cases.

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

    26 certified in the last 24 months

    Higher than 86% of the 27,873 sponsors with a certified LCA in the last 24 months.

  • Share of H-1B positions that were transfers

    42% of 26 certified H-1B positions, LCAs decided Jun 2024 to Jun 2026

    Higher than 93% 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 26 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.

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

Approval rate

82.5%ahead of 4%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

485 daysahead of 21%

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 39 and 43 filings.

Their median wait
465 days
This one
485 days

This one sits 20 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 971 of 70,985 by volume: 970 filed at least as many filings, and 70,014 filed no more.

Just above
TechData Service Company LLC 41 filings
Just below
JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC 41 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 Nursing 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

Nursing Assistants

SOC 31-1131.00 · 35 filings, 85% of everything they file · 85.7% approved

How this is counted

These are the 4 occupations with the most filings, 38 of 41 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

Temporary Help Services

NAICS 561320 · 41 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

  • Oklahoma 17
  • New Mexico 14
  • California 10
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 3 states cover 41 of 41 filings.

Where the work is

  • Fairview, OK 17
  • Albuquerque, NM 14
  • Santa Ana, CA 8
  • Orange, CA 1
  • Upland, CA 1
How this is counted

The worksite city on the application, which is where the job is. These 5 cities cover 41 of 41 filings.

Who files for them

  1. Hilda Surtida Agunday, Attorney at Law 33 filings · 84.4% approved
  2. Hilda Agunday, Attorney at Law 5 filings
  3. ATLANTIC LAW FIRM 1 filings
  4. Law Offices of Gali Koren 1 filings
  5. Sturman & Associates 1 filings
How this is counted

The law firm named on the application. 41 of 41 filings, 100% of the total.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Albuquerque Journal

    14 cases

  2. The Orange County Register

    7 cases

  3. Enid Daily News

    6 cases

  4. The Oklahoman

    4 cases

  5. Los Angeles Times

    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. Employee referral programs

    1 cases

  2. Job search websites

    1 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    1 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

    31%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    16%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    16%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    34%

  7. Over 180 days

    3.1%
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

112 PERM decisions from FY2008 to FY2026, busiest in FY2025 with 21.

  • 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 2 0 0
FY2009 1 0 0
FY2010 0 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 2 0 0
FY2018 3 0 0
FY2019 10 1 0
FY2020 11 2 0
FY2021 8 4 0
FY2022 14 6 0
FY2023 6 1 0
FY2024 9 2 1
FY2025 17 4 0
FY2026 7 1 0

Decided in FY2016 to FY2023

The 25 most recent of 68. Case numbers from these years start with A-; look one up for DOL's full record.

Case Decided Outcome Job Offered wage
A-22259-22965 2023-08-09 certified Nursing Aide, CA $34,570
A-22249-17180 2023-08-09 denied Nursing Aide, OK $24,274
A-22250-18013 2023-08-07 certified Nursing Aide, CA $34,570
A-22245-16190 2023-07-28 certified Nursing Aide, CA $34,570
A-22235-10491 2023-06-29 certified Nursing Aide, CA $34,570
A-22229-07452 2023-06-06 certified Nursing Aide, CA $34,570
A-22167-73400 2023-05-11 certified Nursing Aide, OK $24,274
A-21217-27976 2022-09-02 certified NURSE AIDE, NM $23,005
The other 17
A-21258-44795 2022-07-12 denied Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21270-50468 2022-07-08 certified Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-20150-60011 2022-05-24 denied Nurse Aide, OK $21,486
A-21218-28501 2022-04-20 denied NURSE AIDE, NM $23,005
A-21167-02482 2022-04-19 certified Home Health Aide, OK $19,490
A-21270-50560 2022-04-15 denied Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21270-50629 2022-04-04 certified Nurse Aide, NM $23,005
A-21264-48014 2022-03-28 certified Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21155-96281 2022-03-23 denied Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21155-96274 2022-03-23 denied Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21162-00002 2022-03-22 certified Nurse Aide, NM $23,005
A-21217-27679 2022-02-24 certified Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21195-17373 2022-02-01 certified NURSING AIDE, CA $28,246
A-21168-03014 2021-12-08 certified Nurse Aide, OK $21,965
A-21165-00981 2021-12-08 certified Nurse Aide, NM $23,005
A-21162-99992 2021-12-08 certified Nursing Aide, CA $28,246
A-21172-04739 2021-12-08 certified Home Health Aide, OK $19,490

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

  • Jordan 31
  • Nigeria 14
  • South Korea 10
  • Philippines 3
  • Lebanon 2
  • Sri Lanka 2

Worker's education

  • High School 34
  • Bachelor's 24
  • Associate's 5
  • Master's 3
  • Other 2

Visa held when filed

  • F-1 31
  • NOT IN USA 8
  • B-2 4
  • F-2 1
  • H-1B 1
  • J-1 1

Schools

  • UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN 4
  • JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3
  • PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY 3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN 3
  • ALZAYTOONAH UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN 2
  • APAM SENIOR HIGH 2

Fields of study

  • HIGH SCHOOL 28
  • NURSING 27
  • NOT APPLICABLE 3
  • GENERAL EDUCATION 2
  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 1
  • COMPUTER ENGINEERING 1

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 Nursing Assistants, 35 of 41. 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 41 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 971. 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 40 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 OK. 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 22, 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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