DOL publishes its PERM disclosure file every quarter, one row per case it decided. This note reads the file for April to June 2026 (fiscal 2026, Q3) case by case and sets it beside the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier. Every figure comes from the file itself. To search its cases yourself by employer, law firm, state or job, use PERM Tracker's free case search, which reads every file DOL has published together with its live record.
Decisions
52,601
Up 26% on last quarterup 24% on a year before
Certified, of those decided
96%
1 point lower than last quarterDays from filing to certification
440
63 days quicker than last quarterthe median, and one in ten took 488 or more
Offered wage, certified cases
$105,741
About the same as last quarterthe median, a year
What stands out this quarter?
DOL decided about a quarter more PERM cases than in January to March, and the cases it certified had waited about two months less. Five things stand out, all from the file:
- More decisions, and a faster middle. The median certified case took about two months less from filing than in the quarter before or a year before.
- More denials. DOL certified a smaller share of what it decided: denials were more than three times what they were a year before.
- Big employers back in volume. Microsoft's decided cases more than doubled on the quarter before. Tesla went from one decided case in January to March to hundreds, nearly all in May and June. Deloitte Consulting had one decided case a year before and hundreds this quarter.
- The H-1B season. April to June is when the lottery's winners file, and DOL certified about twice as many H-1B LCAs as in January to March, about as many as a year before.
- Fewer wage requests. DOL determined fewer prevailing wage requests than in either the quarter before or a year before.
How many PERM cases did DOL decide?
These bars count every PERM case DOL decided in each quarter: certified, denied or withdrawn.
April to June 2025
42,44440,138 certified, 637 denied, 1,669 withdrawn
January to March 2026
41,84039,018 certified, 1,246 denied, 1,576 withdrawn
April to June 2026
52,60148,811 certified, 2,100 denied, 1,690 withdrawn
Who filed the most?
These are the employers with the most decided cases in the quarter, each beside its count the quarter before and a year before.
- 1,120
466 the quarter before, 1,337 a year before
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692 the quarter before, 285 a year before
- 495
360 the quarter before, 86 a year before
- 489
320 the quarter before, 93 a year before
- 394
1 the quarter before, 158 a year before
- 382
251 the quarter before, 285 a year before
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160 the quarter before, 415 a year before
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289 the quarter before, 626 a year before
- 334
361 the quarter before, 1 a year before
- 304
0 the quarter before, 7 a year before
These are the law firms named on the most decided cases. The list names firms only. DOL's file names the firm, and this site never names an individual attorney.
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5,542 the quarter before, 5,575 a year before
- 2,521
2,108 the quarter before, 1,765 a year before
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1,655 the quarter before, 1,139 a year before
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1,050 the quarter before, 964 a year before
- 1,120
536 the quarter before, 353 a year before
- 1,058
823 the quarter before, 776 a year before
- 826
958 the quarter before, 1,224 a year before
- 719
332 the quarter before, 543 a year before
- 718
749 the quarter before, 482 a year before
- 707
532 the quarter before, 1,200 a year before
Which jobs and states?
These are the jobs with the most decided cases, by the occupation DOL assigned.
1 Software Developers
11,3489,709 the quarter before, 10,007 a year before
2 Computer Systems Analysts
2,1931,966 the quarter before, 2,184 a year before
3 Data Scientists
1,8471,679 the quarter before, 1,399 a year before
4 Fast Food and Counter Workers
1,4611,165 the quarter before, 1,701 a year before
5 Project Management Specialists
1,2931,050 the quarter before, 1,255 a year before
6 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
1,157779 the quarter before, 1,961 a year before
7 Industrial Engineers
1,076745 the quarter before, 631 a year before
8 Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
960929 the quarter before, 483 a year before
9 Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
913757 the quarter before, 772 a year before
10 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
837497 the quarter before, 632 a year before
These are the states the jobs are in.
1 California
8,8407,682 the quarter before, 7,468 a year before
2 Texas
5,5074,062 the quarter before, 3,994 a year before
3 New York
3,7342,964 the quarter before, 3,211 a year before
4 Georgia
2,9651,911 the quarter before, 3,525 a year before
5 Florida
2,9411,674 the quarter before, 1,838 a year before
6 New Jersey
2,6922,055 the quarter before, 2,041 a year before
7 Washington
2,1631,259 the quarter before, 2,029 a year before
8 Illinois
2,0311,812 the quarter before, 1,995 a year before
9 Massachusetts
1,7081,329 the quarter before, 1,260 a year before
10 Michigan
1,509964 the quarter before, 894 a year before
Which employers were new to DOL's files?
These employers had their first decided PERM case in DOL's files, which reach back to October 2015, this quarter.
5,753 employers had their first decided PERM case in DOL's files (back to October 2015) in April to June 2026, 8,316 cases among them. The busiest:
- 102
What else did DOL decide in the same months?
These are the same quarter's prevailing wage determinations, which come before a PERM, and the H-1B labor condition applications DOL certified.
Wage requests DOL determined
48,458
Down 17% on last quarterdown 25% on a year before
H-1B LCAs DOL certified
212,707
Up 97% on last quarterdown 2.3% on a year before
What this file can't tell you
The file holds decided cases only, so it says nothing about the cases still waiting. The PERM queue counts those from DOL's live record, by the month they were filed.
It counts each case on the day DOL decided it. A busy quarter here may be DOL working through an older filing month. The wait figures say how old the decided cases were.
DOL doesn't publish why it denied a case, and a withdrawal is the employer's own choice. An employer that files under several names is counted on one page, the way its page counts it. A name DOL's file spells in a way this site can't tie to a page stays apart.
Where the figures come from
Every figure is from DOL's quarterly PERM, prevailing wage and LCA disclosure files, counted by the day DOL decided each case. The PERM case search reads the same files one case at a time, and each employer and law firm links to its full record.
