# PERM Tracker

> PERM Tracker (permtracker.app) is a free web app for the US Department of Labor PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) labor certification process, for both the person waiting on a case and the attorney managing one. Without an account: look a case up by NUMBER across all three DOL programs - PERM (G-), prevailing wage request (P-) and H-1B LCA (I-200/I-203) - for its live DOL status and a stage-aware decision estimate (with email alerts on changes); or, with no case number at all, find it by employer name, law firm, worksite state or occupation. Use timeline calculators for every green-card stage (PWD, PERM, I-140, I-485), and browse DOL's own disclosure and queue data as searchable datasets. With a free account: case-management software that computes every interdependent PERM deadline per case.

Every figure on this site is measured from a named federal source and carries the window it was measured over. Nothing is modelled. Where the data cannot support a number, the site says so rather than estimating one: there is no per-case denial-risk score, and processing-time estimates are withheld for filing cohorts too young to measure.

## Current figures

- DOL is issuing PERM determinations for cases filed in December 2025 (as of 2026-09-22, from DOL's FLAG processing-times page).
- Average calendar days from filing to determination: 336 (DOL's own published average for August 2026).
- Decided PERM cases in the current disclosure window: 373,939, unioned and de-duplicated by case number from PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2025_Q4.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_New_Form_FY2024_Q4.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2024_Q4.xlsx.
- Overall PERM denial rate across that window: 3.2% of 355,130 decided cases. Withdrawals are counted as neither approvals nor denials.
- Median offered annual wage on certified PERM cases: $103,272.

These refresh when DOL publishes. Cite the date alongside the number.

## Data and calculators

- [Case status lookup (PERM, prevailing wage and LCA)](https://permtracker.app/perm-case-status): Check a case number for its live DOL status, its place in the queue, and a stage-aware decision estimate. Takes all three DOL programs: PERM (G-), prevailing wage requests (P-) and H-1B LCAs (I-200 and I-203). Works for PENDING cases, not just decided ones, because it asks DOL directly rather than reading the quarterly files. Free, no account, and it emails when the status changes. No case number? Search by employer name instead.
- [USCIS case status by receipt number](https://permtracker.app/uscis-case-status): Decode a USCIS receipt number (three letters and ten digits, like EAC2190123456): the office behind the prefix and the conventional reading of the digits. Live status from USCIS's Case Status API once USCIS issues API access; until then the page says so and links USCIS's own status page. USCIS's record of the I-140 or I-485, distinct from the DOL PERM lookup.
- [Data overview](https://permtracker.app/tools): Where DOL's PERM queue stands right now, with every calculator and dataset one click away.
- [PERM queue backlog](https://permtracker.app/perm-queue): Every filing month's pending census: how many cases are undecided, in which DOL queue, and how far each month has progressed.
- [DOL debarment lists](https://permtracker.app/debarments): Every employer, attorney and agent barred from PERM, H-1B, H-2A or H-2B filings, with the period and the violation as DOL published them.
- [PERM employers with cases on hold, at RFI or under appeal](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers/under-review): Every employer with PERM cases outside DOL's normal queue (on hold, at RFI or NORD, or under the employer's own appeal), by count and share, with the date each hold began and the days DOL moved an employer's cases in bulk.
- [PERM RFIs, audits and appeals](https://permtracker.app/perm-rfi-audit): How many pending cases sit in a request for information, an audit or an appeal, and the measured funnel of how RFIs resolve.
- [PERM daily decision activity](https://permtracker.app/perm-decision-activity): Decisions per working day, the outcome mix, and the weekly shape of DOL's output.
- [PERM processing times](https://permtracker.app/perm-processing-times): Which filing month DOL is currently deciding, the average days to a determination, and how the queue frontier has moved. Read live from DOL's FLAG system.
- [PERM denial rates](https://permtracker.app/perm-denial-risk): Measured denial rates by ETA-9089 answer, offered wage band, occupation, state and fiscal year. Group rates only: there is deliberately no per-case risk score.
- [PERM salaries by occupation](https://permtracker.app/perm-wages): Median offered annual wage for every occupation in the disclosure window, with filing volume and approval rate. These are wages employers committed to in a federal filing, not survey estimates.
- [PERM employers](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers): Every company that filed a PERM case, ranked by volume, with approval rate and median processing days.
- [PERM law firms](https://permtracker.app/perm-attorneys): Every law firm filing PERM cases, with volume, approval rate and median processing days.
- [PERM filings by state](https://permtracker.app/perm-by-state): Filing volume, approval rate and wages by worksite state, on a map and in a table.
- [PERM case search](https://permtracker.app/perm-cases): Every PERM case: DOL's published files, plus every pending and newly decided case from DOL's daily check, searchable by employer, job title and filing month.
- [PWD case search](https://permtracker.app/pwd-cases): Find a prevailing wage request (ETA-9141) by employer, job title and filing month, with the case number, filing date and DOL's current status. Live from DOL's daily check.
- [LCA case search](https://permtracker.app/lca-cases): Find an H-1B labor condition application (ETA-9035) by employer, job title and filing month, with the case number, filing date and DOL's current status. Live from DOL's daily check.
- [H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 case search](https://permtracker.app/seasonal-cases): Find an H-2A application (ETA-9142A, H-300- numbers) or job order (ETA-790A, JO-A-300-), an H-2B application (ETA-9142B, H-400-), a CW-1 application (ETA-9142C, C-500-) or an H-2B or CW-1 prevailing wage request (P-400-, P-500-) by employer, job title and filing month, with DOL's current status. Live from DOL's daily check, pending included; no wage or worker count.
- [Search every DOL program at once](https://permtracker.app/case-search): One employer, law firm, worksite state or occupation searched across PERM, prevailing wage requests, H-1B LCAs and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings together. DOL runs them all off one case-number counter but publishes them separately, so an employer's record is normally split across several searches; this returns them together, each result labelled with the program it came from.
- [PERM calculators](https://permtracker.app/calculators): Every calculator in one place, with what each one answers.
- [PERM decision estimator](https://permtracker.app/tools/perm-timeline-calculator): Reads a filing month against where DOL's queue actually is, and withholds an estimate when the cohort is too young to measure.
- [PERM deadline calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/perm-deadline-calculator): The ETA-9089 filing window, recruitment timing and the quiet period, per 20 CFR 656.17, capped by the prevailing wage expiration.
- [Prevailing wage determination calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/pwd-calculator): PWD queue position and expiration under the OEWS wage-year rule.
- [Priority date and visa bulletin history](https://permtracker.app/tools/priority-date-calculator): Whether a priority date is current, and which way the cutoff has been moving across stored visa bulletins. Cutoffs move backwards as well as forwards.
- [I-140 queue estimator](https://permtracker.app/tools/i140-calculator): USCIS I-140 volumes and outcomes by petition subtype.
- [Green card timeline](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-timeline): The employment-based stages end to end, with what governs each one.
- [PERM salary explorer](https://permtracker.app/tools/salary-explorer): What sponsorship actually pays, by occupation, state and year, from the wage committed to on each certified filing. Not a survey estimate: every figure came off a federal form.
- [H-1B salary explorer](https://permtracker.app/lca-wages): The wage attested on certified H-1B LCAs, by occupation, worksite state and year, annualised from the unit each filing quoted: median, average and percentiles over the filings you select, from DOL's own disclosure files.
- [Policy changes on the record](https://permtracker.app/policy-changes): Every Federal Register rule, proposed rule and notice from USCIS, DHS, State and DOL's ETA that matches PERM, prevailing wage, H-1B, I-140, adjustment of status, the visa bulletin or EB-5, with the Register's own abstract and a link to the document. No summaries, no predictions.
- [Compare two employers](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers/compare): Two PERM sponsors side by side from DOL's own files: filings, certification and denial counts with their interval, median days, median wage, what is pending now, and the occupations and states each files for.
- [Compare my offer](https://permtracker.app/tools/compare-my-offer): Where an offered salary sits among certified H-1B LCAs and PERM offers for the same occupation and state, as a percentile. The offer is placed in the browser and never sent to the site.
- [Every case status, explained](https://permtracker.app/perm-case-statuses): What each DOL FLAG status means for a PERM, a prevailing wage request or an H-1B LCA (analyst review, RFI issued, on hold, appeals, certified, expired), with the regulation that defines it or a note that none does, and today's count.
- [The visa bulletin by category and country](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin/categories): One page per employment-based bulletin line (EB-1 to EB-5, Other Workers, the EB-5 set-asides) for India, China, Mexico, the Philippines and the rest of the world: both charts this month, the final action cutoff a fiscal year at a time, and USCIS's own counts behind the line. No forecast.
- [Family-sponsored cutoff history](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin/family): Every family-sponsored cutoff (F1, F2A, F2B, F3, F4) from the visa bulletin archive by country: the latest final action and dates-for-filing cutoffs, how far each moved, and every retrogression. No queue position, because USCIS publishes no family inventory.
- [Layoff notices against sponsors](https://permtracker.app/layoffs): WARN Act layoff and closing notices as the states publish them (California, Texas, New York and Washington), matched by name to the employers in DOL's PERM record, each linked to the state's own file.
- [Open data](https://permtracker.app/open-data): Two datasets as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0: every visa bulletin cutoff (employment and family, final action and dates for filing, by category and country) back to June 2005, every one since October 2014, and every reading of DOL's PERM and prevailing wage processing-times page we've kept.
- [API and MCP server](https://permtracker.app/developers): A free JSON API (permtracker.app/v1, keys from Settings) and an MCP server (permtracker.app/mcp, no key needed) with six read-only tools: look up a PERM, prevailing wage, H-1B LCA or H-2A/H-2B case by number, estimate a PERM decision date, DOL's queues, the visa bulletin, and employer, law firm and occupation records.
- [Badges](https://permtracker.app/badges): Embeddable SVG badges of DOL's own published figures, and every calculator, estimate and chart plus the case lookup as an iframe for other sites, with the HTML to copy.
- [The guide for the person waiting, in Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Vietnamese](https://permtracker.app/zh): Checking a case, where DOL's queue is, the steps after PERM, EB-3 Other Workers and this month's cutoffs, in five languages: /zh, /es, /pt-br, /ko and /vi. Figures and DOL's status words stay as DOL prints them.
- [Estimate scorecard](https://permtracker.app/estimate-scorecard): How close the decision-date estimates land: a weekly backtest that rebuilds DOL's queue on a past day and grades thousands of real decisions, a random sample of pending cases recorded every morning before the outcome and graded after, and the hand-recorded worked examples. Never edited.
- [Glossary](https://permtracker.app/glossary): Every term of the employment-based green card defined in plain words with the regulation it comes from (PERM, PWD, priority date, cutoff, retrogression, RFI, audit, BALCA, portability), each linked to the page where it meets real data.
- [RFI response deadline](https://permtracker.app/tools/rfi-deadline): The last day to answer a PERM request for information, counted from the date on DOL's letter under 20 CFR 656.20(b), with the calendar around it.
- [Prevailing wage determination validity](https://permtracker.app/tools/pwd-validity): When a prevailing wage determination expires under 20 CFR 656.40(c), including the OEWS wage-year rule, and the recruitment or filing that must start inside it.
- [H-1B six-year limit and the 365-day rule](https://permtracker.app/tools/h1b-six-year-limit): When H-1B status maxes out, and the last day to file a PERM so one-year extensions stay available under AC21 section 106(a). Dates with citations, no prediction.
- [H-1B prevailing wage sources](https://permtracker.app/lca-wage-sources): Where H-1B prevailing wages come from, by fiscal year: DOL's OES data, private salary surveys (publishers and survey names) or union contracts, and the employers that use surveys most, from DOL's LCA files.
- [EAD automatic extension calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/ead-extension): Whether a work permit was automatically extended by its renewal, and to when: nothing for renewals received on or after October 30, 2025 (8 CFR 274a.13(e)), up to 540 days before that under 274a.13(d).
- [Green card sponsor finder](https://permtracker.app/sponsor-finder): Employers that file PERM cases, filtered by state, industry, recent filing, approval rate, how often their H-1B hires are transfers, and likely cap-exempt status. Each links to its full record.
- [Top OPT and CPT employers](https://permtracker.app/opt-employers): ICE's own top-200 lists of employers of F-1 students on OPT, STEM OPT and CPT, for every year ICE published one, as ICE printed them.
- [H-1B lottery odds calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/h1b-lottery-odds-calculator): The OEWS wage level an H-1B offer meets for its occupation and work areas, read live from DOL's wage search, the level 8 CFR 214.2(h)(8)(iii)(A)(4) assigns, and DHS's estimated chance of selection at that level.
- [Priority date retention and I-485 portability](https://permtracker.app/tools/priority-date-retention): From an I-140 approval date: when an employer's withdrawal stops revoking it, when a pending I-485 becomes portable under INA 204(j), and whether the priority date is kept.
- [Prevailing wage levels](https://permtracker.app/tools/wage-levels): DOL's four OEWS prevailing wage levels for any occupation in any metro or non-metro area, read live from the OFLC wage search with the series year each figure belongs to.
- [Green card government fees](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-fees): USCIS filing fees for the employment-based green card, from Form G-1055 with its edition date: I-140 and the asylum program fee tier, premium processing, I-485, I-765 and I-131 per person.
- [I-140 filing trends](https://permtracker.app/tools/i140-trends): USCIS I-140 receipts, approvals and denials over time by petition subtype, with the quarter each figure was published for.
- [I-485 queue position](https://permtracker.app/tools/i485-queue-position): Where an adjustment-of-status filing sits against USCIS's published pending inventory, by category and country of chargeability.
- [The green card line: people ahead of a priority date](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-line): Everyone ahead of a priority date in EB-2, EB-3 and EB-3 Other Workers by country: approved I-140s waiting (USCIS's count, spread by the measured PERM time), pending I-140s, and current I-485s, with families counted from DHS and years at State's FY2024 Table V pace. A range, checked against USCIS's I-485 counts where both exist.
- [EB-2 vs EB-3 for one priority date](https://permtracker.app/tools/eb2-vs-eb3): EB-2 and EB-3 side by side for one country and priority date: this month's final action and dates-for-filing cutoffs, and the people ahead in each line as a range. Names one line as shorter only when the ranges don't overlap, and compares people, not waits.
- [Which employment green card category fits](https://permtracker.app/tools/which-green-card): A few questions (sponsor, the job's minimum requirement, the person's qualifications, five statements) matched against 8 CFR 204.5's definitions and USCIS's national interest waiver test: which of EB-1A, EB-1B, EB-1C, EB-2, the EB-2 waiver, EB-3 and EB-3 Other Workers could apply, and what each needs. Information, not legal advice.
- [H-1B lottery odds by year](https://permtracker.app/h1b-lottery-odds): USCIS's H-1B cap registration and selection counts for FY2021 to FY2026, the share selected each year, and DHS's own estimate (90 FR 60864) of a beneficiary's chance at each OEWS wage level under the weighted lottery that began with FY2027. Labelled as an estimate; no FY2027 count is published yet.
- [PERM by worksite city](https://permtracker.app/perm-cities): Every worksite city with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016 (DOL's closed-year and current files), with the approval rate, the median certified wage, decisions by year, and the employers, occupations, industries and countries of citizenship behind them. One page per city.
- [PERM by industry](https://permtracker.app/perm-industries): Every industry by the NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016, titled from the Census Bureau's NAICS lists: approval rate, median wage, top sponsors, jobs, cities and countries of citizenship. One page per six-digit code.
- [PERM by the worker's country of citizenship](https://permtracker.app/perm-countries): Each country's PERM decisions by fiscal year from FY2008, and its sponsors, jobs, cities, industries, education and visa at filing from FY2016. From DOL's old-form files; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't publish citizenship.
- [The NVC immigrant visa waiting list](https://permtracker.app/nvc-waiting-list): The State Department's yearly count of immigrant visa applicants waiting at the National Visa Center, by family and employment category, reconciled report against report. Consular cases only, families included; adjustments at USCIS are not in it.
- [Green card timelines](https://permtracker.app/green-card-timelines): How long the I-140, I-485, work permit and green card took for the people who report them: the PERM dates checked against DOL's record, everything after self-reported and labelled as such.
- [USCIS processing times, the median, by form](https://permtracker.app/uscis-processing-times): The median months USCIS took to decide every form last quarter, from its quarterly performance workbook, beside receipts, completions and pending, and the historical medians back to FY2016. A different number from USCIS's processing-times page, and both are shown.
- [The I-485 by USCIS field office](https://permtracker.app/i485-by-field-office): Employment-based I-485 applications received, approved, denied and pending at every USCIS field office and service center per quarter, the busiest offices, and quarters of work at each office's pace. From USCIS's quarterly count; withheld cells stay withheld.
- [Approved I-140s awaiting a visa number](https://permtracker.app/i140-awaiting-visa): USCIS's quarterly count of approved I-140, I-360 and I-526 petitions waiting for a visa number, by preference and country of birth, with the movement since the previous count and I-140 receipts by fiscal year for India and the top five countries.
- [The next visa bulletin](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin): What every earlier bulletin for the coming month did, per employment category and country, beside USCIS's count of I-485 applications ahead of each cutoff. Measured from the archive, not predicted, and it rolls forward when the next bulletin lands.
- [Methodology](https://permtracker.app/methodology): Where every figure on this site comes from, how it is computed, and what it cannot tell you.

## Product

- [Home](https://permtracker.app/): What the product does, for the person waiting and the person managing cases
- [About](https://permtracker.app/about): Who runs PERM Tracker (an immigration attorney who files these cases), since when, and what it is not
- [For attorneys](https://permtracker.app/for-attorneys): The case-management side - every deadline computed per case, reminders, calendar sync
- [FAQ](https://permtracker.app/faq): Questions about PERM and about this site
- [Email preferences](https://permtracker.app/email-preferences): See and stop everything the site emails an address
- [Sign Up](https://permtracker.app/signup): Create a free account
- [Contact](https://permtracker.app/contact): Get in touch

## Content Hub

- [Blog posts](https://permtracker.app/blog): Insights on PERM labor certification, immigration practice, and industry trends.
- [Guides](https://permtracker.app/guides): How-tos, references, checklists and comparisons for the PERM process and for PERM Tracker itself.
- [Changelog](https://permtracker.app/changelog): Product updates and new features, plus the corrections log: every published claim this site got wrong, with what it said, what was true and what changed.

## Blog posts

- [Data Note: The 1,854 PERM Cases on Hold, and Who Holds Them](https://permtracker.app/blog/data-note-application-on-hold-september-2026): The first of a series of short notes on what this site's record shows. September 2026: 1,854 cases at APPLICATION ON HOLD, 1,831 of them one employer's.
- [How PERM Wage Data Gets Published](https://permtracker.app/blog/how-perm-wage-data-is-published): DOL publishes the wage on decided PERM cases in quarterly files. What the offered wage is, why it's a floor set by the process, and what it leaves out.
- [What an Employer's PERM Record Shows](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-an-employers-perm-record-shows): Volume, approval rate, wages and law firms, drawn from DOL's own files. What each figure means, and what none of it says about one individual case.
- [What DOL Actually Publishes About PERM](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-dol-publishes-about-perm): The Department of Labor puts out PERM data in three places: quarterly files, a case status system and a processing times page. What each one leaves out.
- [What a Law Firm's PERM Volume Tells You](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-law-firm-volume-tells-you): Every PERM filing names the firm that made it. What volume and approval rates in DOL's files can tell you, and what they cannot.
- [What to Do While Your PERM Is Pending](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-to-do-while-you-wait): What's worth checking while a PERM sits with DOL, how often, what's genuinely out of your hands, and what actually signals a problem.
- [Why PERM Cases Are Denied or Audited](https://permtracker.app/blog/why-perm-cases-are-denied): The measured denial rates by wage, occupation and what the form declares, what an audit is, how an RFI differs, and why we refuse to blend them.
- [Is My Company Still Filing PERM? How to Check](https://permtracker.app/blog/is-my-company-still-filing-perm): Every PERM filing names its employer in a public record. How to read a company's filing history and pending cases, and what it can't tell you.
- [My PERM Got Audited. Is That Bad?](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-audit-what-it-means): An audit is a request for proof, not a decision. What the letter asks for, how it differs from an RFI, and what it costs in time.
- [Which Companies Sponsor the Most Green Cards?](https://permtracker.app/blog/companies-sponsoring-most-green-cards): The employers filing the most PERM cases right now, from DOL's own files. Microsoft leads, but half the top ten isn’t tech at all.
- [PERM Salary Data: What Sponsored Jobs Actually Pay](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-salary-data-by-occupation): Median offered wages by occupation from DOL's PERM files: committed figures, not survey estimates. Software Developers at $139k, and the other half.
- [Best Immigration Case Management Tools 2026](https://permtracker.app/blog/best-immigration-case-management-tools): An objective review of the leading immigration case management tools in 2026, with features, pricing, and the type of practice each one actually suits.
- [PERM Processing Times in 2026: What to Expect](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-processing-times-2026): How long PERM takes in 2026, from DOL's own published figures: the filing month under review, the average days to a decision, and what adds months.
- [5 PERM Audit Triggers and How to Avoid Them](https://permtracker.app/blog/common-perm-audit-triggers): Learn the most frequent reasons PERM applications get audited by the DOL and practical strategies to minimize your audit risk.
- [What Is PERM Labor Certification?](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-is-perm-labor-certification): The PERM labor certification process end to end: filing requirements, processing times, the pitfalls that trigger audits, and what to check before filing.

## Guides

- [EB-3 Other Workers: The Separate Line Inside EB-3](https://permtracker.app/guides/eb3-other-workers): Other Workers is EB-3 for jobs needing under two years of training. It has its own cutoff, a 10,000 cap, and 57,743 approved petitions waiting in Jun 2026.
- [Approved I-140, No Visa Number: The EB-2 India Wait](https://permtracker.app/guides/approved-i140-no-visa-number-eb2-india): What no visa number means, how many approved EB-2 India petitions are waiting (356,360 as of Jun 2026), and why no years figure is a date.
- [EAD and Advance Parole Timelines While an I-485 Is Pending](https://permtracker.app/guides/ead-and-advance-parole-timelines): How long USCIS is taking on the I-765 work permit and I-131 advance parole document, from its quarterly file, and what pending means for work and travel.
- [Which Field Office Is Fastest for an EB I-485](https://permtracker.app/guides/fastest-field-office-eb-i485): USCIS's quarterly file lists employment-based I-485s received, approved, denied and pending per field office. Which hold the least backlog per approval.
- [I-485 vs I-485J: What Supplement J Is](https://permtracker.app/guides/i485-vs-i485j-supplement-j): Supplement J is the job-offer confirmation or portability request that rides on an employment-based I-485. What a 485J approval means, and what it doesn't.
- [Median vs 80%: The Two USCIS Processing Times](https://permtracker.app/guides/uscis-processing-times-median-vs-80-percent): USCIS publishes two processing times for one form: a quarterly-file median and the time to finish 80% of cases. Why they differ and which one to read.
- [How to Read a USCIS Receipt Number](https://permtracker.app/guides/uscis-receipt-number): What the 13 characters on a USCIS notice mean, which three-letter prefixes USCIS names, where the number sits on Form I-797, and what it can't tell you.
- [What Emma Told You, and Which Form It Meant](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-emma-told-you): USCIS's virtual assistant and its live agents quote dates without naming forms. How to work out which of your receipt numbers an approval belonged to.
- [EB-2 vs EB-3 on a PERM: What Sets the Category](https://permtracker.app/guides/eb2-vs-eb3-perm): The same PERM can lead to an EB-2 or an EB-3 I-140, and the job's requirements decide which. The rules, the two visa queues, and what a downgrade keeps.
- [Employer Layoffs and Your PERM: The Rules That Actually Apply](https://permtracker.app/guides/employer-layoffs-and-your-perm): Your sponsor announced layoffs. The six-month layoff rule at filing, what happens to a pending case and an approved I-140, and the H-1B grace period.
- [My Employer Stopped Filing PERMs: How to Read the Record](https://permtracker.app/guides/employer-stopped-filing-perms): The sponsor's PERM filings dried up. How to read an employer's record, the ordinary reasons a filer goes quiet, and what it means for a case already filed.
- [The I-693 Medical Exam: When, Who, and How Long It Lasts](https://permtracker.app/guides/i693-medical-exam): The immigration medical exam every adjustment applicant needs: who can do it, when, the 2023 validity rule, and where USCIS lists civil surgeons.
- [Appealing a PERM Denial: Reconsideration and BALCA Review](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-appeal-reconsideration-balca): The three appeal statuses on a PERM: what the officer can reconsider, what BALCA can do with the record, the 30-day windows, and the measured ages waiting.
- [PERM Denied: What Happens Next, and the Two 30-Day Windows](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-denied-what-happens-next): A PERM denial isn't the end of the case, but two clocks start the day it's issued. Reconsideration, BALCA review, refiling, and what each one can use.
- [The PERM to Green Card Document Checklist, Stage by Stage](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-document-checklist): Every document the employer and the worker will be asked for, from the wage request to the I-485, with the rule behind each and which are kept, not filed.
- [PERM Status NORD Issued: What Is Known, and What Isn't](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-nord-issued-meaning): NORD ISSUED is one of the rarest PERM statuses and DOL publishes no definition of it. What the record shows about the cases carrying it, and what to do.
- [PERM Status Says RFI Issued: What It Means and What to Do](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-rfi-issued-what-to-do): Your PERM moved to RFI ISSUED. What DOL is asking for, where the deadline comes from, what the measured outcomes look like, and what you can do about it.
- [PERM vs NIW: Which Route to an EB-2 Green Card](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-vs-niw): A PERM needs an employer, recruitment and a prevailing wage. A national interest waiver needs none of them and a harder argument. What each route requires.
- [Was My PERM Received? How to Check Without a Receipt](https://permtracker.app/guides/check-perm-received-without-receipt): No receipt, no case number, nobody answering. How to tell whether DOL has your PERM from its own index and the employer search, and what each result means.
- [How Accurate Are PERM Approval Estimates?](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-accurate-are-perm-estimates): PERM estimators disagree by months on the same case. What an estimate can and can't know, and how close ours lands on real DOL decisions.
- [Compute every PERM deadline from one date](https://permtracker.app/guides/compute-every-perm-deadline): Enter the prevailing wage determination date and your recruitment dates to get every dependent PERM deadline, including the cap hand arithmetic misses.
- [Explore PERM Wages by Occupation and State](https://permtracker.app/guides/explore-perm-wages): The offered wage on every certified PERM case, filtered by occupation, state and year, and why a single median will mislead you.
- [Find a Case Number You Were Never Given](https://permtracker.app/guides/find-a-dol-case-number-by-employer): Search the employer, the job title and the filing month across PERM, wage requests and H-1B LCAs, and get the DOL case number nobody sent you.
- [How DOL Sets a Prevailing Wage](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-dol-sets-a-prevailing-wage): The OEWS survey, wage levels 1 to 4, the occupation code and the area, and how long a determination lasts. What actually sets the number.
- [How DOL Works Through the PERM Queue](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-the-perm-queue-works): PERM cases are decided roughly in filing-month order. What DOL's published frontier means, how much the employer initial is worth, and where it stops.
- [How the Visa Bulletin Works](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-the-visa-bulletin-works): Priority dates, final action versus dates for filing, retrogression, and what C and U mean. Per-country limits in plain terms, and what it cannot say.
- [How to Look Up an Immigration Law Firm's PERM Record](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-law-firm): Search any firm that files PERM cases, read its volume and approval rate honestly, and see the one thing this record cannot tell you.
- [Look Up a PERM Case by Its Number](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-perm-case-by-number): Paste a G- or A- case number and get DOL's current status, the queue in front of it, an estimate with its real error, and an email when it moves.
- [How to Look Up a Sponsoring Employer's PERM Record](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-sponsor): Search a sponsor by name, read what the filings and approval rate actually mean, and see the wage requests and LCAs filed before the PERM.
- [How to Look Up an H-1B LCA by Case Number](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-an-lca-by-number): Paste an I-200 or I-203 number and see what DOL says about a labor condition application, pending ones included, plus how to find it by employer.
- [What Does PERM Application On Hold Mean?](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-application-on-hold-meaning): DOL changed your PERM status to Application On Hold and explained nothing. What the status means, how many cases sit in it, and what happens next.
- [PERM Case Number Format: What Each Part Means](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-case-number-format): What a DOL case number is made of, why some start with G and others with A or P, and what the digits in the middle actually encode.
- [Read the Denial and Audit Rates Without Over-Reading Them](https://permtracker.app/guides/read-the-denial-and-audit-rates): How to read the measured PERM denial rates and the review stage counts here, what the cohort sizes mean, and what neither one can tell you.
- [How to Read Your Priority Date History](https://permtracker.app/guides/read-your-priority-date-history): Put an employment-based priority date against 84 visa bulletins, read which way the cutoff moved, and get an email when it moves again.
- [Which Data Page Answers Which Question](https://permtracker.app/guides/the-data-pages-and-what-each-answers): A map of the data pages on this site, one line each, with an honest note on what the whole set can't tell you.
- [The PERM deadlines that actually matter](https://permtracker.app/guides/the-perm-deadlines-that-matter): Four dates fix a PERM case: the wage determination expiry, the 30 to 180 day recruitment window, the quiet period, and the 180 days after certification.
- [How to Track a Prevailing Wage Request by Case Number](https://permtracker.app/guides/track-a-prevailing-wage-request): Paste a P- number and see the Department of Labor's current status for a prevailing wage request, pending ones included, plus the wage once it's issued.
- [Track a Case Without Making an Account](https://permtracker.app/guides/tracking-a-case-without-an-account): Everything here works with no sign-in: the lookup for all three DOL programs, the searches, the data pages, and the email alerts.
- [Waiting on an Employer-Sponsored Green Card](https://permtracker.app/guides/waiting-on-your-green-card): The whole employment green card from the applicant's side: what each federal filing is, how long it takes now, and how to check yours yourself.
- [What an H-1B Labor Condition Application Is](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-an-lca-is): The ETA-9035, what the employer attests to, the seven business day target, and why certified does not mean the H-1B is approved.
- [What Each PERM Case Status Means](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-perm-case-statuses-mean): DOL shows a PERM case one line of capitals and explains none of it. Analyst review, RFI, audit, certified, denied and the rest, and what follows each.
- [See Where Your Filing Month Sits](https://permtracker.app/guides/where-your-filing-month-sits): Three pages answer three different questions about the PERM queue: where DOL is working, how fast it moves, and what it decided today.
- [How to Find Your PERM, PWD or LCA Case Number](https://permtracker.app/guides/find-your-dol-case-number): Your lawyer filed it and you don't have the number. What each DOL prefix means, and how to find your PERM, PWD or LCA case number from the employer's name.
- [How to Check Your PERM Case Status (Yes, You Can Do It Yourself)](https://permtracker.app/guides/check-perm-case-status): You don't need a law firm login to see where a PERM case stands. Where to find your case number, what each DOL status means, and what it can't show you.
- [The Three 180-Day Clocks in a PERM Case](https://permtracker.app/guides/three-180-day-clocks): A certified PERM lasts 180 days. An approved I-140 turns withdrawal-proof at 180. A pending I-485 gains portability at 180. Three rules, three clocks.
- [How to Read the PERM Data](https://permtracker.app/guides/reading-the-perm-data): A working guide to the live DOL figures, the data pages and the calculators: what each number means, where it comes from, and which answers your question.
- [The Ultimate PERM Guide for 2026](https://permtracker.app/guides/ultimate-perm-guide-2026): PERM labor certification end to end: what happens at each of the five stages, how long each takes, what draws an audit, and the deadlines that end a case.
- [Getting Started with PERM Tracker](https://permtracker.app/guides/getting-started): PERM Tracker has two halves: look up any PERM, PWD or LCA case number with no account, or sign in to manage a caseload. This guide covers both.
- [How to Track Every PERM Deadline](https://permtracker.app/guides/tracking-perm-deadlines): Use PERM Tracker's deadline engine to stay on top of every critical date in your PERM cases, from PWD expiration to I-140 filing windows.
- [Manual vs Automated PERM Tracking](https://permtracker.app/guides/manual-vs-automated-tracking): An honest comparison of spreadsheet-based manual tracking versus purpose-built PERM tracking tools. Pros, cons, and when each approach makes sense.
- [The Complete 2026 PERM Filing Guide](https://permtracker.app/guides/complete-perm-filing-guide): A comprehensive, step-by-step reference guide for the entire PERM labor certification process, from prevailing wage through I-140 filing.
- [Setting Up Recruitment Tracking](https://permtracker.app/guides/recruitment-tracking): How to track PERM recruitment activities, manage checklists, and stay compliant using PERM Tracker's built-in recruitment tools.
- [PERM Recruitment Requirements Checklist](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-recruitment-checklist): Every PERM recruitment requirement under 20 CFR 656.17, with the timing math that sets when each step is actually due and what a DOL audit asks for.

## Changelog

- [Corrections](https://permtracker.app/changelog/corrections): Every time this site published something wrong about its data, its process or the rules: what it said, what was true, and what changed.
- [Check any case number, and every dataset from its source](https://permtracker.app/changelog/case-status-and-first-party-data): Per-case DOL status with email alerts, the review-stage funnel, daily decision activity, a pending queue census, and 84 months of visa bulletin history.
- [Every case, every sponsor, and a hero that says something](https://permtracker.app/changelog/every-case-every-sponsor): Case-level search arrives, the entity pages go from 250 rows to all 16,210, and every chart gets a table view and filters worth using.
- [Law firms, denial rates, and the whole wage ladder](https://permtracker.app/changelog/law-firms-and-denial-rates): Three additions from the same DOL files: who files the most PERM cases, what gets denied, and wages at five percentiles instead of one.
- [Live DOL Data, Calculators, and a Faster Site](https://permtracker.app/changelog/live-data-and-two-doors): The public data surface arrives: live queue position, six calculators, a methodology page, and one navigation for all of it. Plus a faster first load.
- [The whole field, three ways: states, wages and sponsors](https://permtracker.app/changelog/the-whole-field-three-ways): Three new pages cut DOL's disclosure files by place, pay and sponsor: an interactive state map, wages by occupation, and the biggest sponsors.
- [March 2026: Enhanced Timeline, Smarter AI & UX Polish](https://permtracker.app/changelog/march-2026-timeline-and-ux): The timeline view now shows every PERM date range and milestone at a glance, with a more reliable AI chat and dozens of UX improvements.
- [January 2026: Visual Refresh & New Features](https://permtracker.app/changelog/january-2026-visual-refresh): A major visual overhaul with SVG illustrations, new animations, and improved mobile experience, plus new features for better case management.
- [Launch: PERM Tracker 2.0](https://permtracker.app/changelog/launch-perm-tracker-2): Introducing PERM Tracker 2.0, a complete rebuild with daily case tracking, automated deadlines, recruitment management, and an AI-powered assistant.

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