Updated
PERM by the worker's country of citizenship
Every country with 20 or more PERM decisions on DOL's old form, FY2016 to FY2024, with each country's yearly record back to FY2008.
Countries with a page
161
The ten busiest hold
81%
of 959,493 decisions
All 161 countries
All 161 countries
| India | 488,591 | 97.9% | $110,745 |
| China | 100,349 | 97.1% | $111,000 |
| South Korea | 39,494 | 91.4% | $45,000 |
| Mexico | 36,397 | 86.0% | $45,344 |
| Canada | 30,182 | 95.6% | $121,243 |
| Philippines | 21,477 | 87.9% | $41,600 |
| Vietnam | 18,775 | 85.8% | $24,960 |
| Brazil | 18,069 | 90.5% | $62,941 |
| Pakistan | 10,405 | 90.9% | $72,343 |
| Nepal | 10,020 | 95.4% | $67,424 |
| Taiwan | 9,492 | 95.8% | $95,555 |
| Venezuela | 9,258 | 82.9% | $56,722 |
| United Kingdom | 9,224 | 93.8% | $120,000 |
| Bangladesh | 8,083 | 80.5% | $34,320 |
| Colombia | 6,767 | 87.7% | $50,566 |
| France | 6,740 | 95.1% | $117,500 |
| Turkey | 5,765 | 94.1% | $79,141 |
| Russia | 5,638 | 95.3% | $105,851 |
| Iran | 5,423 | 92.7% | $75,000 |
| Japan | 4,963 | 93.2% | $72,706 |
| Australia | 4,822 | 96.8% | $130,062 |
| Italy | 4,766 | 92.5% | $93,787 |
| Germany | 4,672 | 95.3% | $114,400 |
| Ukraine | 4,283 | 94.7% | $100,000 |
| South Africa | 4,217 | 83.3% | $55,000 |
| Nigeria | 4,210 | 90.3% | $85,415 |
| Poland | 3,967 | 91.6% | $56,534 |
| Spain | 3,741 | 93.8% | $98,738 |
| Thailand | 3,416 | 92.1% | $35,992 |
| Israel | 3,391 | 95.4% | $122,678 |
| El Salvador | 3,241 | 79.8% | $35,194 |
| Argentina | 2,891 | 92.2% | $90,000 |
| Ireland | 2,375 | 94.2% | $107,950 |
| Egypt | 2,282 | 93.8% | $101,837 |
| Zimbabwe | 2,161 | 85.5% | $41,558 |
| Malaysia | 1,917 | 94.8% | $93,395 |
| Jamaica | 1,829 | 83.3% | $49,800 |
| Peru | 1,781 | 89.4% | $73,187 |
| Singapore | 1,751 | 97.0% | $120,750 |
| Ecuador | 1,718 | 82.1% | $51,292 |
| Ghana | 1,686 | 78.7% | $68,000 |
| Sri Lanka | 1,634 | 93.5% | $80,000 |
| Romania | 1,632 | 93.3% | $91,711 |
| Jordan | 1,630 | 93.1% | $93,800 |
| Lebanon | 1,586 | 92.1% | $90,000 |
| Hong Kong | 1,528 | 92.9% | $80,000 |
| Chile | 1,424 | 93.4% | $100,942 |
| Honduras | 1,378 | 78.3% | $46,213 |
| Guatemala | 1,375 | 83.5% | $34,019 |
| Indonesia | 1,339 | 94.5% | $86,921 |
DOL printed the worker's citizenship, education and visa on its old form, and the last cases filed on it were decided in FY2024. The form in use since mid-2023 doesn't carry them. So these pages describe FY2008 to FY2023 (years) and FY2016 to FY2024 (everything else).
Case data through Jun 30, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
What this data includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
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