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.
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: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting is not in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases, not the queue.