The site now answers the first question anyone waiting on a PERM case asks, and every figure behind it comes from the agency that publishes it.
Your own case, by number
PERM case status takes one PERM case number and returns DOL's own status with a plain-English reading beside it, how many undecided cases were filed ahead of it, and the sponsoring employer's published record. Every deadline in the glossary carries the section of 20 CFR part 656 it comes from, and the statuses DOL publishes no definition for say so rather than getting one invented.
On a case that hasn't been decided, leave an email address and one message follows when the status changes. It's double opt-in, it's offered only where a case can still move, and nothing else is ever sent.
The data comes from DOL directly
Per-case status used to be mirrored from a third party. It now comes from DOL's own case-status search, in batches, run against every undecided case twice a day and across the whole corpus daily. Checked field by field before the switch, status, employer, job title and submitted date matched the old mirror exactly, and DOL returns the visa type, which the mirror didn't.
That closes the last live third-party dependency on the site. Every dataset here now has a primary source of record: DOL for case status, processing times and the quarterly disclosure files, the State Department for the visa bulletin, USCIS for I-140 counts and the I-485 inventory.
Three new data pages
- RFI, audits and appeals: what each review stage means, who has to act and by when, and a live count of how many cases are standing at each one. It publishes no audit rate, because our own measurement of that reads zero and a hole in the data isn't a finding.
- Decision activity: how many decisions DOL issues each day and week, the shape of its working week, and what happened to the cases it decided. It reports and forecasts nothing.
- Queue backlog: how many cases are still undecided in every filing month and which DOL queue each sits in. DOL's quarterly files carry a decision date on every row and no pending rows at all, so this is underivable from them and comes from the per-case scan instead.
84 months of visa bulletin
The priority date calculator now runs on 84 months of State Department bulletins, October 2019 through September 2026, all six employment categories, with no third-party rows in it. Cutoff dates that read C or U are drawn as what they are, one meaning the category was open to every priority date and the other meaning it was shut to all of them, and a closed run is drawn as a break in the line rather than interpolated through.
Four stages, four calculators
The calculators now cover each stage on its own terms: the prevailing wage queue, the PERM decision estimator, the I-140 calculator and I-485 queue position, with the deadline calculator computing the dates the regulations fix rather than estimating them.
