If you're waiting for an employer to start a PERM case, or wondering whether the ones they used to file have stopped, the record is public. Every PERM application names the sponsoring employer, and DOL publishes them.
What the record answers is a counting question: how many cases this employer filed, when, and what happened to them. It does not answer a question about intent, and the difference between those two matters more here than anywhere else on this site.
Where the record lives
DOL publishes quarterly PERM disclosure files through its Office of Foreign Labor Certification performance data. Each row is one decided case: the employer's name, the job title, the offered wage, the worksite state, the filing and decision dates, and the outcome.
PERM Tracker unions those quarterly files, de-duplicates by case number, and publishes the result per employer at PERM employers. As of August 2026 that's 259,489 decided cases, searchable by company name, with a page for every sponsor in the window.
What a company's page shows
Open a sponsor and you get its own record rather than an aggregate: total filings in the current disclosure window, how many were certified and how many denied, the approval rate, the median days its cases took, the median offered wage, the occupations it files for and the states it files in, and which law firms filed for it.
Below that sits the one module built from something other than history. DOL's disclosure files carry a decision date on every row and contain no pending cases at all, so a case still waiting appears in none of the counts above. PERM Tracker also scans DOL's per-case status search, which is the only place a pending case exists, and shows how many of that sponsor's cases are standing in the queue right now, which DOL stage each is in, and how long the oldest one has been waiting. As of August 2026 that scan covers about 414,000 cases, roughly 99,000 of them still pending.
Two lags, or you'll misread it
Both halves of that page are behind the present, in different ways and by different amounts.
The disclosure files only contain decided cases. A PERM filed last month is in no disclosure file, because DOL hasn't decided it. As of August 2026 DOL is working cases filed around September 2025, so at every employer in the country the most recent year of filings is largely missing from the decided record. "Nothing recent in the disclosure files" is the normal state of every sponsor, and on its own it means nothing at all.
The pending scan is where recent filings appear first. That's the half to read for current activity. A case filed this quarter shows up there as a pending case long before it reaches a disclosure file.
Read them in that order and the page makes sense. Read the decided half alone and every company in America looks like it stopped filing a year ago.
What a pause looks like in the data
At a sponsor that had been filing steadily, a pause shows up as an absence with a date on it: the pending cases all carry older filing months, nothing new appears behind them, and the gap between the newest pending filing month and today keeps growing. The decided record confirms the earlier pattern was real, and the pending record is where the stop is visible.
That's a description of a data series. It is not a statement about the company. The record shows what was filed and when. It doesn't show a decision, a policy, or a plan.
One matching caveat, and it's the mistake most likely to produce a false pause. DOL prints employer names as they were typed on the application, so one company can appear under several spellings, with its filings split across them. Before concluding that a sponsor stopped, search the company name in more than one form on PERM employers and check whether the filings simply moved to a differently-spelled entry.
What this can't tell you
- Whether they'll file again. Nothing in the data speaks to the future.
- Why the filings stopped. A hiring freeze, a reorganization, a change of law firm, a shift to a different visa route, or a batch that hasn't reached a published file yet all look identical from outside.
- Whether you personally will be sponsored. That's an internal decision about one role and one person, and it has no public record.
- Company policy of any kind. Counts and dates are the whole of what's here.
If you need an answer about your own case rather than about your employer's history, ask the employer. It's their filing to make, and the immigration contact or the outside firm they use is the person who knows.
Checking a specific company
- Search the name on PERM employers, and try more than one spelling.
- Read the pending queue module on their page for current activity, then the decided figures for history.
- Search PERM case search by employer to see individual decided cases with wages, job titles and the days each took.
- If you already have a case number, PERM case status shows where DOL has that specific case today.
Related
- Companies sponsoring the most green cards: the top of the same file
- PERM employers: every sponsor, ranked and searchable
- How to read the PERM data: which page answers which question
- Methodology: where each figure comes from and how it's computed
Every Sponsor in DOL's Files
Search any company's PERM record: filings, approvals, median days, median wage, and the cases still standing in DOL's queue today. Free, and no account.
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