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PERM Tracker

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About PERM Tracker

PERM Tracker is a free, independent website that follows the PERM labor certification process using the Department of Labor's own published data. It's not a law firm, it isn't affiliated with the Department of Labor, and nothing on it is legal advice.

PERM Tracker has two halves, both free. For anyone waiting on a case: look up any PERM, prevailing wage or H-1B LCA 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 or a visa bulletin move, and search every filing by employer, law firm, state and occupation. No account needed. 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, CSV import, an AI assistant over your caseload, and client data encrypted and isolated per account.

How the site works: DOL's case index is asked every night and on every lookup, DOL's disclosure files are read each quarter, USCIS and the State Department each month; all of it lands in the pages: case status, processing times, wages and deadlines.FEDERAL SOURCESDOL case-status indexevery case, pending includedDOL disclosure filesdecided cases and the wageUSCIS and State DeptI-140, I-485, the visa bulletinREAD BY USNightly sweepplus a live ask on everycase lookup, and monthlyand quarterly loadsWHAT YOU READCase statusProcessing timesWages and employersYour deadlinesEvery figure carries its source and the date it was measured. Nothing is modeled or crowd-sourced.

What it does

Look up a case number and see its federal record and how far DOL's queue has reached. Search an employer, law firm, state or occupation across PERM, prevailing wage and H-1B filings. Read the processing-time, wage and decision data DOL publishes, each figure with the window it was measured over. If you file cases, track every deadline across a caseload with reminders.

Who's behind it

Sabrina Soltau runs PERM Tracker. She's an immigration attorney who files these cases, and she started it because the people she files for had no way to see where a case stood between the filing and the decision. She still files them, and her clients' questions shape what the site answers first.

She brings both sides of a filing to the site: the attorney's, which deadlines matter and what an audit actually asks for, and her clients', what it's like to wait on a case with nothing to check. She's also the voice of the product's email.

Both sides of a filing have a say in what the site does: the people waiting on a case and the attorneys who file for them.

Where the data comes from

Every figure comes from a named federal source: DOL's FLAG system and disclosure files, USCIS's published counts, and the State Department's visa bulletin. Nothing is modeled or crowd-sourced. The methodology page traces every number.

What it isn't

PERM Tracker doesn't give legal advice, doesn't file anything for you, and can't see inside DOL beyond what DOL publishes. A pending case shows the status DOL reports and nothing more. Your attorney has the file; this site tells you where the queue is.