Updated October 18, 2026

Check a PERM case

Its status in plain English, where it sits in DOL's queue, an estimated decision date, and an email when it changes. Wage request, LCA, H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 numbers work too.

FAQs

Where do I find my PERM case number?

On the ETA-9089 filing receipt, and on any status notice DOL sent the employer. Current ones look like G-100-26125-868956; cases filed in 2022 and 2023 use a shorter form like A-23043-00641, and both work here. The employer's attorney has it if you don't.

Is this DOL's official status?

Close to it, and the chain is worth stating. These statuses come from DOL's own case-status search, which we sweep against every pending case twice a day and against the full corpus daily, and every 5 minutes on weekdays (every half hour otherwise) for a case someone has an alert on. DOL publishes no documented API for it, so this is the same endpoint their search page uses rather than a supported one. It is a sweep, not a live reading: a case decided since the last sweep will show at DOL first, and DOL is the authority for any single case.

Is the decision date on this page a prediction for my case?

It's an estimate, labeled as one, and the label is doing real work. The window comes from a named model over this case's own filing month, read at the percentile its current stage implies: a case at RFI reads its month's p90, not the median, because the audited tail is measured. It is checkable arithmetic over DOL's decided cases, and it is not a promise about any single case.

Why won't you tell me my odds of being certified?

A single odds figure would read as precision the data cannot support. The measured denial factors are not independent, so blending them into one score hides which one is doing the work. The denial-rate pages publish the measured rates separately and refuse the blend on purpose. What is real, and shown, is the employer's published record across its own decided cases.

My case isn't here. Is something wrong?

Almost certainly not. If we do not already hold your number, we ask DOL's case system for it and record what comes back, so a recent filing usually turns up. A wrong digit is worth ruling out first, because it still makes a well-formed number. Cases filed before mid-2023 are not in the per-case data. DOL's published decision files start at fiscal year 2024. A wrong digit in the serial is also worth ruling out, since it still makes a well-formed case number.

What does my case number actually mean?

The current format encodes its own filing date. In G-100-26125-868956, the 26 is the year and the 125 is the day of that year, so it decodes to May 5, 2026. Measured against 20,000 cases in DOL's records, that decoded date matches exactly 89% of the time and is a day or two off otherwise. The older three-part format, like A-23043-00641, does not: the same reading lands 13% of the time, so this page refuses to decode one rather than guess a filing month.

Do you store the case number I type in?

No. It goes into the page's address so you can bookmark or share the result, and it's stripped out of analytics before anything is sent. Nothing is written down and nothing goes to a third party.

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 18, 2026 · daily

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Processing times: DOL FLAG (flag.dol.gov/processingtimes) · data through Oct 5, 2026 · daily

What each source includes

Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.

Processing times: DOL's published queue position and average determination time. DOL's own figure, not ours.

Cite this page

Read from DOL's own case-status search, every case daily. DOL is the authority. More

These statuses are read from DOL directly. The FLAG case-status search answers a batch lookup, and we run it against every case once a day, against every undecided case at least twice a day (three times on weekdays), and against cases with an alert on them every 5 minutes on weekdays (every half hour at night and at weekends). DOL publishes no documented API for this, so it is the same endpoint their own search page uses rather than a supported one. The date shown on each case is when our check saw it, and it is a snapshot rather than a live feed. DOL is the authority for any case and this page is never a substitute for the determination letter. Check it yourself at flag.dol.gov.

The rules behind these numbers

Check a PERM case

Its status in plain English, where it sits in DOL's queue, an estimated decision date, and an email when it changes. Wage request, LCA, H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 numbers work too.

Check a PERM case

Its status in plain English, where it sits in DOL's queue, an estimated decision date, and an email when it changes. Wage request, LCA, H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 numbers work too.

FAQs

Where do I find my PERM case number?

Is this DOL's official status?

Is the decision date on this page a prediction for my case?

Why won't you tell me my odds of being certified?

My case isn't here. Is something wrong?

What does my case number actually mean?

Do you store the case number I type in?

No. It goes into the page's address so you can bookmark or share the result, and it's stripped out of analytics before anything is sent. Nothing is written down and nothing goes to a third party.

Check a PERM case

FAQs

The rules behind these numbers

Check a PERM case

What a case number gets you here

FAQs

The rules behind these numbers

What a case number gets you here