Direct support professional visa sponsorship

Yes. From 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, the US Labor Department certified 177 H-1B applications for direct support professionals from 6 employers and 79 green card (PERM) applications from 16 employers.

By certified applications in that period: Richmond Children Center, Inc. (76), Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Inc. (53) and Nysarc, Inc. Essex County Chapter (31). 6 employers filed at least one; the full list has the 6 that filed the most.

By certified PERM applications in that period: The Devereux Foundation (25), Homeward Bound, Inc. (23) and Charles River ARC Inc (4). 16 employers filed at least one (the list).

The median of the lowest hourly rate each H-1B application offered was $19.55 an hour; for green card applications, $15.87. BLS measured a US median of $17.21 an hour for direct support professionals (their pay). An H-1B employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the job and the place, so a sponsored worker is paid like anyone in the same job.

H-1B worksites, most applications first: New York and Florida. Green card worksites: Pennsylvania, Minnesota, California, Florida and Massachusetts.

Yes, when a US employer files for it; the worker cannot apply for the visa alone. For direct support professionals the usual route is the H-1B, a temporary work visa for jobs that need at least a bachelor's degree: 6 employers had 177 applications certified from 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026 (the list), and 16 employers filed 79 green card applications for permanent jobs. Most open jobs, on this board and elsewhere, hire people already allowed to work in the US, and a job that sponsors says so in its posting. Write to the sponsoring employers above directly, and never pay anyone a fee for a job offer or a visa: honest employers do not ask for one (FTC: job scams).

From the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's disclosure files for 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026, published 2026-08-07. Only applications the Labor Department certified are counted, each read as an occupation by its own job title. A certified application is not yet a visa: USCIS decides the petition after it. CareJobs.Now rebuilds these figures each quarter the files are published.