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.
These statuses are read from DOL directly. The FLAG case-status search answers a batch lookup, and we run it against every undecided case every 12 hours and against all of them weekly. 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 the tracker saw it, not when we did, 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.
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Sep 1, 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 Aug 28, 2026 · daily
DOL's status for this case is BALCA Appeals. It was filed June 25, 2024, 799 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 May 18, 2026 · DOL's queue position as of August 28, 2026
DOL showed this status 107 days ago, on May 18, 2026, and it has not been looked at since. A case can move in that time, so if something has changed recently it will show on DOL's own status page before it shows here. flag.dol.gov is the source, and it is the authority.
DOL's file records a decision on this case, and it is back in processing. The quarterly disclosure file shows it denied on September 22, 2025, and the live status page now shows balca appeals. That is a normal sequence rather than a contradiction: a denial can be appealed within 30 days under 20 CFR 656.24(g), which puts the case back in front of the Certifying Officer. The live status is the current one.
Case number
The middle five digits are a date: day 177 of 2024, which is June 25, 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.
Straight from the quarterly disclosure file, which carries fields the live status page does not.
Outcome
Denied
September 22, 2025
Days taken
454
from receipt to determination
Offered wage
$26,645
Nursing Assistants
Worksite state
SC
as filed
Across 14,083 decided cases filed in June 2024, the middle one took 457 days, and half of them landed between 448 and 468. This one took 454, which is 3 days quicker than the middle of its month.
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 27 still open are in analyst review.
| DOL status | Cases |
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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 June 2024 is not the only thing DOL is holding.
Every decided PERM case DOL published for PruittHealth, across FY2024 to FY2026. It describes the employer's filings, not this case.
95.0% of 321 decided cases were certified. That describes what DOL did with this sponsor's past filings and carries no claim about this one. Everything published about PruittHealth.
Filed before this case
0
undecided cases with an earlier filing month
Filed the same month
27
still open alongside it, not in front of it
Behind the work front
16 ahead
DOL is working October 2025, newer than this case
DOL is working October 2025, which is 16 months newer than this case's filing month. So filing order is no longer what this case is waiting on. 27 cases filed in June 2024 are still open, out of 13,985 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.
13,985 cases were filed in June 2024. 13,958 of them have been decided so far, which is 99.8% of the month.
$26,653
$31,200 median
$35,755
| Out of filing order 1 | |
|---|---|
| Determination Issued | 1 |
| Under appeal or review 26 | |
| BALCA Appeals | 22 |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 4 |