A case number gets you the status in plain English, what the queue in front of it looks like, and the employer's own record. It will not get you a decision date, and the page says why.
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DOL's status for this case is BALCA Appeals. It was filed August 26, 2024, 737 days ago. DOL has already moved past this filing month, so filing order is not what it is waiting on.
DOL showed this status on August 26, 2026 · DOL's queue position as of August 28, 2026
Case number
The middle five digits are a date: day 239 of 2024, which is August 26, 2024. DOL publishes no key for the prefix, so this page does not put a meaning on it.
The record
Under appeal
BALCA Appeals
Estimate
A BALCA appeal is a different forum entirely, not a slow PERM decision. Nothing in the filing-month data can date it.
Cases at this stage have been pending a measured average of 714 days since filing.
Every figure here is a count over the per-case snapshot. None of them is a date, and none of them is a rate this case will move at.
The case is with the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals. BALCA can affirm the denial, direct the Certifying Officer to grant the certification, or order a hearing.
Who acts: BALCA decides. All parties get 30 days to file a brief or decline to.
352 cases are in this status right now, across every filing month. That is a measure of how common the state is, and nothing more. It is not how likely this case is to leave it or where it goes next: the feed has only been observing status changes since August 2026, and weeks of transitions cannot honestly price the odds of one.
Analyst review is the ordinary queue and it moves in filing order. Everything else takes a case out of that order, which is the honest answer to “DOL passed my month and I still have nothing”.
0 of the 97 still open are in analyst review.
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A month is not slow or fast on its own. Two either side is enough to see whether this one is ordinary, and August 2024 is not the only thing DOL is holding.
Every decided PERM case DOL published for Accordion Partners, LLC, across FY2024 to FY2026. It describes the employer's filings, not this case.
A clean record over 6 cases is worth knowing and it is not a rate. At this volume one denial would move the figure by tens of percentage points, so the counts are here and the percentage is not. Everything published about Accordion Partners, LLC.
Filed before this case
0
undecided cases with an earlier filing month
Filed the same month
97
still open alongside it, not in front of it
Behind the work front
14 ahead
DOL is working October 2025, newer than this case
DOL is working October 2025, which is 14 months newer than this case's filing month. So filing order is no longer what this case is waiting on. 97 cases filed in August 2024 are still open, out of 12,795 filed that month.
A case that stays open past its month is usually in one of the queues that takes it out of filing order: a request for information, an audit, supervised recruitment, or an appeal. The split below shows which of those the rest of the month is sitting in.
12,795 cases were filed in August 2024. 12,698 of them have been decided so far, which is 99.2% of the month.
| Out of filing order 17 | |
|---|---|
| NORD Issued | 16 |
| Determination Issued | 1 |
| Under appeal or review 80 | |
| BALCA Appeals | 69 |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 9 |
| Denied - BALCA Dismissed | 1 |
| Request For Review | 1 |