If you're on an H-1B at a large company, you've probably wondered whether it's still filing green card cases, especially after DOL put every pending PERM case of several big employers on hold in October 2026. The record is public. Every PERM application names its employer, and DOL's live case-status record shows each one from the day it's filed. Here's how to read it, with six big employers as of October 16, 2026.
The quick check
Open the employer on PERM employers and read its "Right now" section: PERM cases pending, the newest filings, and prevailing wage requests still waiting. Those three say more about this year than any lifetime total.
Six big employers, October 16, 2026
| Employer | PERM filed in the last 12 months | PERM pending now | Newest PERM filing on record | Wage requests pending now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 1,273 | 677 | October 15, 2026 | 1,033 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 617 | 598, all on hold since October 8 | September 16, 2026 | 315 |
| Apple Inc. | 430 | 259 | October 8, 2026 | 608 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | 26 | 19, 7 of them at RFI | May 8, 2026 | 973 |
| Google LLC | 15 | 15 | September 25, 2026 | 1,025 |
| Intel Corporation | none shown | 0 | none pending | 619 |
Read from each employer's page on this site, which reads DOL's case-status service daily: Amazon.com Services, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google and Intel. Big companies often file under more than one legal name: Amazon, for one, also files as Amazon Dev Center U.S., Amazon Web Services and Amazon Data Services, so one row is never the whole company.
What each column tells you
- PERM filed in the last 12 months. The clearest single sign of current sponsorship.
- PERM pending now. Cases DOL hasn't decided. A status other than analyst review, such as on hold or an RFI, is DOL's move on the case; the employer's page names who acted.
- Newest PERM filing on record. The latest filing date DOL's record shows. A month or two with nothing new is common at any employer, so read it with the 12-month count.
- Wage requests pending now. An employer has to get a prevailing wage determination before it can file a PERM, so these are often next year's PERMs. A large count beside few recent PERMs, as at Google LLC, Meta and Intel, means the earlier step is busy. It can't say how many will become PERM filings.
A hold isn't the employer stopping
Microsoft's row needs a closer read. Its PERM cases were still being filed into September, with the newest on September 16, 2026. On October 8, DOL moved all 598 pending cases to APPLICATION ON HOLD, along with every pending case at Capgemini America and Tata Consultancy Services. That's DOL's action on cases already filed. DOL hasn't published a notice explaining it, and employers under review counts the held cases every day.
Two records, two lags
An employer's page joins two DOL sources, and each runs behind the present differently.
| DOL's quarterly disclosure files | DOL's case-status record | |
|---|---|---|
| Holds | Decided cases only, with the wage, job and worksite | Every case DOL indexes, pending included |
| Reaches | June 30, 2026 for the newest file | Today |
| Size on this site, October 16, 2026 | 373,939 cases decided in fiscal years 2024 to 2026 | 441,053 cases scanned, 90,338 still undecided |
A PERM filed this year is in no disclosure file yet, because DOL hasn't decided it. As of October 5, 2026, DOL's analyst review is working cases filed in December 2025, and its published average from filing to a decision is 336 days, measured on the cases it decided in August 2026. So the decided half always looks a year old at every employer in the country, and "nothing recent in the published files" means nothing on its own. The live half is where current filing shows up.
Check any employer in four steps
Find every name it files under
Search the company on PERM employers, and try a shorter name. DOL prints names as they were typed, so filings can sit under several spellings and subsidiaries.
Read the live record first
On each page, "Right now" shows pending cases by DOL status, the newest filings and the wage requests waiting.
Then read the history
The decided figures show how many cases it filed, how many were certified, and for which jobs. The year-by-year chart shows whether filing slowed.
See the cases themselves
The all-programs search lists the employer's PERM cases, wage requests and H-1B LCAs side by side, live and published together.
What this can't tell you
- Whether it'll file for you. Sponsorship is a decision about one role and one person, and it leaves no public record until a filing exists.
- Why the numbers moved. A hiring freeze, a change of law firm, a new legal name, or a batch that hasn't been filed yet can all look alike from outside.
- Company policy of any kind. Counts and dates are the whole of what's here. If you need an answer about your own case, the employer's immigration team or its attorney knows, and nothing here is legal advice.
Related
- Companies sponsoring the most green cards
- Green card sponsors for your job
- Employer stopped filing PERMs
- The PERM queue in mid-October, in five numbers
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