This release adds the steps around the PERM: a page for each USCIS form, the consulate's wait, and the law firms and employers behind the filings.
A page for each USCIS form
Each of 15 forms has its own page, from the I-140 to the N-400: USCIS's median months quarter by quarter, what it took in, decided and had waiting, and its yearly medians since fiscal 2016. The processing times page links each one.
How long the consulate takes
Visa interview waits shows the State Department's own table of how long each embassy and consulate takes to interview, with India and China first. Every reading is kept, and a post that prints no figure says so rather than showing zero.
Who files, and who's exempt
- Law firm rankings lists the busiest firms each fiscal year, for PERM and for H-1B, nationally and in every state. Each firm links to its page. It names firms only. It never names a person.
- Cap-exempt employers comes from the employer's own answer on DOL's wage request form, which asks whether a university or research exemption covers it. USCIS decides, so each is worded as likely.
Your case, in more detail
- A case page lists every status DOL has shown for it, the day each changed and how long each lasted.
- Email alerts puts every free alert on one page: your case, your filing month, the visa bulletin and any employer.
- "How long does PERM take right now?" is answered from today's readings, on the case lookup and processing times alike.
Wages, further back
The wage level tool now shows where one yearly wage reaches each level in every wage area of a state. A job's history reaches back to July 2016, under the job codes DOL used until June 2022 wherever the code changed.
DOL's quarterly file, read
Each quarterly PERM file gets a note of its own. The first reads April to June 2026 case by case, against the quarter before and a year earlier.
Fixes
- Pictures shared from the site no longer carry figures that go out of date. A card over a live page shows the page's shape, its numbers drawn as grey bars.
- Compare trackers covers four more, each read on its own pages.
- Three pages said something wrong, now in the corrections log: the privacy policy's line about the chat's AI providers, the homepage's PERM wait, and "teams" on the attorney page.
