PERM Tracker A PERM case takes 13 months

PERM Tracker is a free, independent website that follows the PERM labor certification process using the Department of Labor's own published data.

A lookup of any PERM, wage request, LCA, H-2A or H-2B case
A case-management app for attorneys, paralegals and HR teams. How it works

Check a case

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

How fast DOL works through the line

From DOL's own processing times, as of October 5, 2026

Every dataset

Jun 25

Aug 25

Oct 25

Dec 25 DOL is here

Feb 26

Apr 26

Jun 26

Aug 26

Processed Still pending

Last 7 days: 2,795
Last 30 days: 15,905
A typical weekday: 756
Certified, last 30 days: 94%

The last 30 days Certified Denied Withdrawn

989

Sep 18 Oct 17

A typical week

649

829

811

780

673

140

Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su

PERM decisions per day, from DOL's case status
Date	Decided	Certified	Denied	Withdrawn
2026-09-18	796	746	39	11
2026-09-19	181	171	9	1
2026-09-20	2	0	2	0
2026-09-21	608	554	51	3
2026-09-22	810	781	17	12
2026-09-23	765	715	37	13
2026-09-24	716	677	19	20
2026-09-25	792	769	8	15
2026-09-26	158	151	0	7
2026-09-27	8	0	7	1
2026-09-28	712	692	8	12
2026-09-29	989	906	62	21
2026-09-30	901	840	47	14
2026-10-01	908	871	22	15
2026-10-02	629	599	16	14
2026-10-03	111	93	10	8
2026-10-04	20	0	19	1
2026-10-05	628	587	27	14
2026-10-06	965	924	16	25
2026-10-07	889	830	37	22
2026-10-08	762	734	16	12
2026-10-09	615	575	29	11
2026-10-10	145	137	7	1
2026-10-11	6	0	4	2
2026-10-12	11	0	4	7
2026-10-13	552	521	17	14
2026-10-14	690	648	28	14
2026-10-15	734	682	34	18
2026-10-16	656	619	26	11
2026-10-17	146	135	4	7

Counted from DOL's own case status, by the day our check saw each case change.

Every day, and every case that moved

The road to a green card

Six stops, three agencies. Each one has a calculator.

Look through the record

Every filing DOL has published, by state, wage, employer and law firm, and why cases are denied.

Both sides of a PERM filing

Same federal record, both free.

For the person waiting on a PERM case

Read the transcript

Waiting on a PERM case can feel like standing at a gate with no time on the board.
PERM Tracker takes the Labor Department's own data and turns it into answers about your case. It's free, and there's no account to make.
Start with the processing time calculator. Type in the date DOL received your case, or just paste your case number.
You'll see the most likely decision date, and the window it should fall in.
Underneath, you can see how far DOL has got through each month, and how many cases are still ahead of yours.
To keep watch, look up your case number, then choose Email me changes.
When DOL changes your case's status, you'll get an email. You can also get one when DOL reaches your filing month.
After PERM, there's more to watch: the I-140 queue, your place in the I-485 line, and whether your priority date is current.
The visa bulletin page shows what earlier bulletins did for your category and country, and it can email you when your cutoff moves.
And you can search every PERM filing, by employer, state or wage.
If an attorney handles your case, there's a side for them too. It keeps every deadline across their cases in one place.
PERM Tracker. Free for applicants and attorneys, at permtracker.app.

What it does

Look up any PERM, wage request, LCA, H-2A or H-2B number, pending ones included
See where DOL's queue stands and when yours could be decided
Free email alerts when your case moves or DOL reaches your month
Search every filing by employer, law firm, worksite state and occupation
Processing times, wages, denial rates and the visa bulletin, from the government's own files

For anyone waiting on a case: look up any PERM, wage request, LCA, H-2A or H-2B number, pending ones included, see the federal record and where DOL's queue stands, get an estimate, set a free email alert for a status change, a queue milestone, a visa bulletin move or an employer's cases moving, and search every filing by employer, law firm, state and occupation. No account needed.

Check my case Where the queue stands

For attorneys, paralegals and HR teams

Read the transcript

A PERM case runs on dates. Miss the filing window, and recruitment starts over.
PERM Tracker is a free case manager built for exactly that. It's run by an immigration attorney who files these cases.
Add a case, or import your whole caseload. Client data is encrypted at rest, and kept separate for every account.
Put in the dates you have, and it works out the rest: the job order's thirty days, the recruitment window, the filing window, when the wage determination expires, and the I-140 deadline.
Change one date, and everything after it moves with it.
And if something's out of order, like filing after the wage determination expires, it warns you before you file.
The Deadline Hub sorts every case into overdue, this week, this month, and later. The calendar and timeline show the whole caseload at once.
Reminders come in the app, by email and push, and on your Google Calendar. And every Monday, there's a digest of the whole caseload.
Quiet hours hold back the routine alerts. Urgent ones still get through.
Your clients get free tools of their own. They can see where their case sits in DOL's line, without an account.
PERM Tracker. Free, at permtracker.app.

What it does

Every deadline computed per case under 20 CFR 656
Change one date and every date after it recalculates
Reminders by email and push, calendar sync and a weekly case summary
Wage expiration, recruitment clocks, the ETA 9089 window, audit and RFI responses, the I-140 cutoff
Import cases from a JSON file, export to CSV or JSON any time, an AI assistant over your caseload
Client data encrypted at rest and isolated per account, with a privacy mode for screen sharing

For attorneys, paralegals and HR teams: a free case-management app that computes every deadline per case under 20 CFR 656 (wage expiration, recruitment clocks, the ETA 9089 filing window, audit and RFI responses, the I-140 cutoff), with reminders, calendar sync, import and export, an AI assistant over your caseload, and client data encrypted and isolated per account.

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About PERM Tracker

PERM Tracker was founded by Sabrina Soltau, an immigration attorney. PERM Tracker is not affiliated with any law firms and nothing on the site constitutes legal advice. More about us

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Data stored on PERM Tracker

373,939: PERM decisions in DOL's published files; through Jun 30 2026
89,980: PERM cases pending at DOL; checked Oct 18 2026
634,638: Prevailing wage determinations; through Jun 30 2026
3,754,961: H-1B labor condition applications; through Jun 30 2026
237: Monthly visa bulletins; newest Oct 2026

Questions about PERM Tracker

FAQs

Two things, both free. For anyone waiting on a case: look up a PERM, prevailing wage or H-1B LCA number, pending ones included, see the federal record and where DOL's queue stands, get an email when the status changes, and search every filing by employer, law firm, state or occupation, with no account. For attorneys, paralegals and HR teams: a case-management app that computes every deadline per case, with reminders, calendar sync, import and encrypted client data.

Yes. No credit card and no case limit. Looking up a case, reading the data pages and setting an email alert need no account at all; managing your own caseload with computed deadlines takes a free account. Optional paid features may come later; the data, the lookup, the calculators and the core deadline tracking stay free.

Yes. Enter the case number on the homepage or on the case status page and it shows DOL's current status, when it was last seen, how many cases DOL is working ahead of yours, and an estimate when the data supports one. It takes all three DOL numbers: a PERM case (G- or A-), a prevailing wage request (P-), or an H-1B LCA (I-). From there you can set a free email alert for the next change.

Enter a case's dates once and every deadline comes out computed under 20 CFR 656: prevailing wage expiration, recruitment clocks, the 30-180 day ETA 9089 filing window, audit and RFI response dates, and the I-140 filing cutoff. Change one date and the downstream dates recalculate. Email and push reminders run 1 to 30 days out with quiet hours and calendar sync, a weekly case summary arrives on the same day each week, and an AI assistant answers questions over your own cases. How the software works →

Yes. Case data is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, sessions expire after 30 minutes of inactivity, and access is isolated per account: no other firm can see your cases. Privacy Mode hides sensitive fields during screen sharing. The public data pages carry no client data at all, only DOL's published records. Security details →

Yes. Upload a JSON file of cases, such as an export from PERM Tracker. Every case is checked before anything is saved, and duplicates are flagged. You can export to CSV or JSON at any time.

Check a case, or track a caseload

Both free. The lookup needs no account; the app takes a few minutes to set up.

Check my case Start tracking cases

Or browse the case data, no account needed