UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

16 Green card sponsorships · 7 Temporary work filings · Education · FY2012–FY2020
Filing volume Top 9% of 332,896 US employers by PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ + LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ volume
4,133 Total employees Self-reported on green-card filings · FY2020
0.39% Green-card sponsorship rate 16 green-card filings / 4,133 employees · FY2012–FY2020 filings vs FY2020 headcount
0.17% Work-visa filing rate 7 work-visa filings / 4,133 employees · FY2012–FY2020 filings vs FY2020 headcount
0.56% Visa filings vs workforce 23 filings / 4,133 employees · FY2012–FY2020 filings vs FY2020 headcount

What this means for you

  • Is this employer actively hiring — and are the filings real?
  • Education · est. 4,133 U.S. employees
  • 56% Green-card filings certified 9 of 16 green-card filings · last filed Aug 2020 · FY2012–FY2020
    0 Green-card filings denied of 16 green-card filings · FY2012–FY2020 filings
    1 Green-card filings withdrawn of 16 green-card filings · FY2012–FY2020 filings
    Top 21% Green-card + work-visa filings 23 filings · last Aug 2020 · Top 21% of 7,445 in Education · Top 9% of 332,896 US employers · FY2012–FY2020
    0.56% Visa filings vs workforce 23 filings / 4,133 employees · FY2012–FY2020 filings vs FY2020 self-reported headcount
    -80% Trend vs last year FY2020 1 vs FY2019 5
    Top 21% Green-card + work-visa filings, Education 23 filings · Top 21% of 7,445 in Education · FY2012–FY2020
    Top 9% Green-card + work-visa filings, all US 23 filings · Top 9% of 332,896 US employers · FY2012–FY2020
    16 Green-card filings FY2012–FY2020
    7 Work-visa filings FY2012–FY2020
    Top 88% Green-card filings per employee, Education 16 filings / 4,133 employees (2020, self-reported) · Top 88% of 4,213 in Education with green-card filings and a reported headcount · FY2012–FY2020
    Top 95% Green-card + work-visa filings per employee, Education 16 filings / 4,133 employees (2020, self-reported) · Top 95% of 4,213 in Education reporting headcount · FY2012–FY2020
  • Layoff notices are withheld here: our WARN coverage is 4.5%, below the 60% we require before pairing layoffs with visa filings for a named employer. Coverage gate
  • History, not a hiring promise.

Public record data. PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ and LCA — Labor Condition Application (ETA-9035) Employer's legally binding wage promise to DOL, required before employing H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 workersJob offer + prevailing wageLCA — wage promise to DOL (you are here)Cap lottery registration (USCIS)I-129 petition (USCIS)Visa issued / status changed (DOS or USCIS)One filing can cover MANY positions — filing counts ≠ worker counts (employers over-file for lottery/relocations); not a visaCommon path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ filing data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure files. Methodology →

Certified

9

PERM — Permanent Employment Certification (ETA-9089) Employer's DOL filing to sponsor a specific worker for an employment-based green card after testing the U.S. job marketTemporary visa (often F-1 student → H-1B)PERM — employer asks DOL to certify the job (you are here)I-140 — employer petitions USCISPriority-date wait (varies by country of birth — years to decades)Green card (I-485 / consular)DOL certifies paperwork — it does not issue green cards; per-position; certified ≠ granted. NEVER "work permit"Common path — some categories skip PERM (EB-1, NIW); timelines vary widely by country of birth. Educational info, not legal advice.Official source ↗ approvals

Expired

6

40.0% rate

Denied

0

0.0% rate

Withdrawn

1

6.2% rate

Filings over time

How many green card applications UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX has filed each quarter, from FY2012 to today.

FY2012 Q1: 2 filingsFY2013 Q1: 1 filingsFY2015 Q2: 1 filingsFY2015 Q3: 1 filingsFY2017 Q3: 1 filingsFY2018 Q1: 2 filingsFY2018 Q3: 1 filingsFY2018 Q4: 1 filingsFY2019 Q1: 5 filingsFY2020 Q4: 1 filings025FY2012FY2013FY2018FY2019
Source: U.S. Department of Labor public records Updated 2026-04-11 08:05:34.412930+00:00

What this means

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX applied to sponsor 16 workers for green cards between 2012 and 2020. A green card application is what an employer files to help a worker stay in the U.S. permanently.

Important: everything on this page is derived from public U.S. Department of Labor records. It is not a statement of fraud, wrongdoing, or hiring intent. It describes observable filing patterns only.

Recent layoff notices

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX has filed 2 WARN — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Federal law requiring 60-day advance notice of large layoffs or plant closures100+ employee firms, 50+/one-third site thresholds — WARN data captures only a FRACTION of layoffs; distributed cuts are invisibleOfficial source ↗ Act layoff notice(s) with state workforce agencies. These are public layoff notifications required by federal law.

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Filing data sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification public disclosure files. Past filings do not predict future hiring behavior. Employers may petition for review at /dispute.

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