This week made the alerts faster and put a measurement behind every date the site gives.
Alerts within minutes
A watched case is checked every 5 minutes on weekdays from 7 AM to 9 PM Eastern, and every half hour otherwise. A status change is emailed at once. DOL emails the filer the moment it decides, so the attorney still hears first; this gets as close as anyone can after that.
A case alert keeps watching for a year after DOL decides, so an appeal or a reversal is emailed too.
Every date, measured
- The PERM range is measured every night against how far recent decisions landed from their dates, by how far out the case is, and it's never wider than 60 days.
- A case DOL's queue has passed is dated by the rate DOL actually finishes those cases.
- A wage request gets a day, from the requests ahead of it and DOL's measured pace.
- A case at RFI is dated from the day its RFI was issued.
- H-2B applications in DOL's assignment groups are dated by their group.
The scorecard shows how each one is doing.
The busiest H-1B employers
H-1B employers ranks the 100 busiest employers for each fiscal year and state, two ways: by DOL's certified LCAs, where the job is, and by USCIS's approvals, where the employer is.
For developers
The API gained keys with scopes and expiry, sandbox keys, exports, live DOL lookups and signed webhooks. Everything is free for now.
Fixes
- A page left open in a tab or on a phone's home screen now refreshes its figures when you come back to it after half an hour.
- Articles and the FAQ quote DOL's current average and queue month with the date DOL published them, where they had carried August's figures.
- Comparison tables and step numbers were missing from 47 articles; they show again.
- Filing months lead with the share of the month DOL has decided, and the case page draws the line ahead of a case month by month.
