Updated
How fast the queue is moving
Every PERM decision DOL makes, counted by day.
PERM decisions, day by day
Checked against DOL 3:56 PM ET, Nov 12
Decided on Tuesday, Nov 10
817
+9% vs a typical Tuesday (747)
Wednesday, Nov 11 was Veterans Day, a federal holiday: DOL was closed.
Certified
766
94% of the day
- Denied
- 40
- Withdrawn
- 11
- Last 7 days
- 2,912 14% fewer than the week before (3,402)
- Last 30 days
- 15,143
- A typical weekday
- 719
- Certified, last 30 days
- 94%
| Date | Decided | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | 718 | 682 | 20 | 16 |
| 2026-10-14 | 679 | 636 | 30 | 13 |
| 2026-10-15 | 753 | 702 | 36 | 15 |
| 2026-10-16 | 622 | 585 | 23 | 14 |
| 2026-10-17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-10-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-10-19 | 759 | 695 | 51 | 13 |
| 2026-10-20 | 793 | 755 | 20 | 18 |
| 2026-10-21 | 778 | 704 | 45 | 29 |
| 2026-10-22 | 842 | 782 | 48 | 12 |
| 2026-10-23 | 639 | 618 | 11 | 10 |
| 2026-10-24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-10-25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-10-26 | 792 | 761 | 24 | 7 |
| 2026-10-27 | 751 | 732 | 12 | 7 |
| 2026-10-28 | 695 | 628 | 56 | 11 |
| 2026-10-29 | 717 | 682 | 22 | 13 |
| 2026-10-30 | 581 | 537 | 13 | 31 |
| 2026-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-11-02 | 652 | 603 | 35 | 14 |
| 2026-11-03 | 727 | 687 | 24 | 16 |
| 2026-11-04 | 723 | 670 | 41 | 12 |
| 2026-11-05 | 840 | 802 | 26 | 12 |
| 2026-11-06 | 563 | 540 | 16 | 7 |
| 2026-11-07 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-11-08 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-11-09 | 648 | 627 | 10 | 11 |
| 2026-11-10 | 817 | 766 | 40 | 11 |
| 2026-11-11 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
Counted from DOL's own case status, by the day DOL worked: a change our check saw before 7 AM counts on the day before.
- Per weekday
- 687
- 20 weekdays counted
- Per weekend day
- 2
- 8 weekend days counted
- Cases in the scan
- 448,779
- per-case scan of flag.dol.gov
- Decisions on record
- 1,762,862
- over 6,848 days
Thu, Oct 15, 2026 to Wed, Nov 11, 2026. Weekdays and weekends counted apart: one rate over both understates the weekday pace by about a fifth.
The cases DOL moved, day by day
Pick a day, or a range, and filter every case DOL moved.
What each date gives you
Pick any date back to October 2007 for PERM, October 2019 for LCAs and October 2022 for wage requests. On a date DOL has published, you get every case it decided, with the outcome, wage, worksite, occupation and law firm on each, and on PERM cases filed on DOL's old form, the worker's citizenship, visa and education. On a date newer than its last file, you get what our own daily check saw change, with what each case changed from and to. Search, filter and sort either one, and pick a range to cross both.
A change row is dated when our scan saw it, which can be after DOL made it: a Friday determination read on Monday is a Monday row. A decided row carries DOL's own determination date.
One day. Widen to see a range.
Case number, employer, job title. Occupation and state too on published dates.
Newer than DOL's last file: what our daily check saw change
These dates are newer than DOL's last published file, so what follows is what our daily check saw change. DOL returns five fields on a case that's still moving, so the wage, law firm, worksite and occupation aren't available for these dates.
Why wage, law firm, worksite and occupation are off for these dates
DOL returns five fields on a case that's still moving: the number, the employer, the job title, the filing date and the status. The four below arrive only when the case is published in a quarterly file. Pick a date inside the published range and they switch on, or use the decided case browser.
- Wage DOL returns no wage from the live case lookup. It arrives with the quarterly disclosure file, once the case is decided.
- Law firm DOL names the attorney or agent only at publication, so a case still moving through the queue carries no firm.
- Worksite state The worksite is on the published record. The live lookup returns the employer. It doesn't return where the job is.
- Occupation (SOC) The SOC code is on the published record. The live lookup returns the job title as filed, which is free text.
Showing the first 60 of 1,369 changes observed on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Search, filters and sorting read the whole day, so they switch on once the rest of it has loaded.
| G-100-26029-603256 | PERM | 18KT Jewelry Inc. | Business Analyst | 2026-01-29 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26037-625192 | PERM | 1st Ranking Technologies | Principal Site Reliability Engineer | 2026-02-06 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26035-618016 | PERM | 345 Goldstream Dining Co. | Chef (Japanese Food) | 2026-02-04 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26050-651163 | PERM | 4SCLE 2, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26050-651165 | PERM | 4SCLE 2, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26050-651169 | PERM | 4SCLE 2, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26050-651170 | PERM | 4SCLE 2, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26049-647842 | PERM | 4SCLE, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-18 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26050-652317 | PERM | 4SCLE, Inc | Crew Member | 2026-02-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26030-609324 | PERM | ADP Technology Services, Inc. | Senior Lead Application Developer | 2026-01-30 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26030-610331 | PERM | Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. | Product Design Engineer | 2026-01-30 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26029-601776 | PERM | Aerolab Inc | Jr. Project Engineer | 2026-01-29 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26005-533069 | PERM | AfroHealth, Inc. | Certified Nursing Assistant | 2026-01-05 | ANALYST REVIEW | Denied |
| G-100-26058-670718 | PERM | AIG PC Global Services, Inc. | Analytics Innovation Product Owner, Generative AI | 2026-02-27 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26059-671487 | PERM | Airbus Americas, Inc. | Head of Procurement Operations - Defense and Space | 2026-02-28 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26029-601672 | PERM | ALD ASIAN CUISINE LLC | Baker | 2026-01-29 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-200-26051-655129 | PERM | ALL ABOUT PHO LLC | Cook | 2026-02-20 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-26020-571610 | PERM | Alstom Transport USA Inc. | Traction Test Laboratory Engineer | 2026-01-20 | ANALYST REVIEW | RFI Issued |
| G-100-25353-498550 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-498597 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-498618 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-498764 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-498831 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-498970 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
| G-100-25353-499145 | PERM | Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. | Software Dev Engineer III | 2025-12-19 | ANALYST REVIEW | Certified |
What this record covers, and what's left out
DOL publishes no timestamp of its own. Observations begin Thu, Aug 27, 2026, the day the per-case scan started, and the record can't be extended backwards: nothing before that date was ever observed, so no amount of reading DOL now can recover it. It's a short record that grows each night. It isn't a history.
Prevailing wage and LCA changes join it later than PERM does. Wage requests from Thu, Sep 3, 2026, and LCAs from Thu, Sep 3, 2026. A day before those dates shows no rows for them because none were observed. It doesn't mean DOL was idle.
Two kinds of row are left out of every day, and the count each one costs that day is printed above the table, because it changes with the day the reader picks. A certification whose 180-day I-140 window lapsed is a clock running out. DOL didn’t act on the case. And a single timestamp carrying more than 5,000 changes is a scan catching up on months of history: DOL’s heaviest measured day is under 2,000, and one sweep wrote 94,523 rows at once, so the whole of such a timestamp is dropped.
- Disclosure corpus, through 2026-06-30
- Our daily check of DOL
A week at the floor and a break in the line mean opposite things. More
The break, and October 2025
The quarterly disclosure file ends 2026-06-30 and our daily check of DOL's case status begins 2026-08-27. Drawing those 57 days as zero would invent a second national stoppage that never happened.
October 2025 ended when DOL announced on the 31st that it had resumed application processing.
- Mon 318 a day · 979 days · 36 at zero
- Tue 358 a day · 979 days · 10 at zero
- Wed 380 a day · 978 days · 11 at zero
- Thu 360 a day · 978 days · 25 at zero
- Fri 364 a day · 978 days · 19 at zero
- Sat 12 a day · 978 days · 422 at zero
- Sun 10 a day · 978 days · 507 at zero
A weekday clears about 356 decisions and a weekend day about 11. Weekend work is small but routine: 1,027 of 1,956 Saturdays and Sundays carry at least one determination.
Denied
3.93% in 2026-Q4. Lowest 1.18% (2025-Q1), highest 22.30% (2008-Q3)
Withdrawn by the employer
2.27% in 2026-Q4. Lowest 1.42% (2008-Q2), highest 18.28% (2009-Q3)
Every quarter's figures
| Quarter | Certified | Denied share | Withdrawn share | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-Q4 | 93.8% certified | 3.93% | 2.27% | 20,581 decided |
| 2026-Q3 | 93.6% certified | 4.52% | 1.87% | 19,911 decided |
| 2026-Q2 | 92.8% certified | 3.99% | 3.21% | 52,601 decided |
| 2026-Q1 | 93.3% certified | 2.98% | 3.77% | 41,840 decided |
| 2025-Q4 | 89.5% certified | 2.94% | 7.60% | 18,109 decided |
| 2025-Q3 | 93.4% certified | 2.54% | 4.06% | 45,936 decided |
| 2025-Q2 | 94.6% certified | 1.50% | 3.93% | 42,444 decided |
| 2025-Q1 | 94.4% certified | 1.18% | 4.41% | 34,195 decided |
| 2024-Q4 | 92.0% certified | 1.21% | 6.76% | 24,364 decided |
| 2024-Q3 | 85.8% certified | 5.19% | 9.00% | 20,539 decided |
| 2024-Q2 | 91.3% certified | 4.34% | 4.35% | 38,970 decided |
| 2024-Q1 | 90.3% certified | 3.42% | 6.30% | 28,447 decided |
| 2023-Q4 | 87.2% certified | 4.71% | 8.08% | 26,494 decided |
| 2023-Q3 | 92.8% certified | 4.40% | 2.83% | 30,166 decided |
| 2023-Q2 | 86.7% certified | 4.94% | 8.40% | 29,367 decided |
| 2023-Q1 | 84.6% certified | 6.38% | 9.04% | 30,715 decided |
| 2022-Q4 | 88.2% certified | 5.80% | 6.01% | 25,907 decided |
| 2022-Q3 | 87.1% certified | 5.39% | 7.55% | 21,138 decided |
| 2022-Q2 | 90.2% certified | 4.81% | 4.96% | 25,955 decided |
| 2022-Q1 | 90.1% certified | 4.13% | 5.77% | 29,681 decided |
| 2021-Q4 | 93.7% certified | 2.93% | 3.42% | 27,666 decided |
| 2021-Q3 | 93.2% certified | 3.65% | 3.19% | 30,077 decided |
| 2021-Q2 | 95.7% certified | 1.82% | 2.50% | 42,252 decided |
| 2021-Q1 | 90.3% certified | 5.33% | 4.36% | 18,004 decided |
| 2020-Q4 | 88.8% certified | 6.90% | 4.33% | 17,837 decided |
| 2020-Q3 | 89.8% certified | 6.07% | 4.17% | 22,196 decided |
| 2020-Q2 | 94.6% certified | 2.50% | 2.95% | 36,976 decided |
| 2020-Q1 | 90.0% certified | 4.99% | 5.03% | 16,768 decided |
| 2019-Q4 | 89.6% certified | 5.39% | 4.97% | 17,930 decided |
| 2019-Q3 | 91.8% certified | 5.28% | 2.95% | 24,790 decided |
| 2019-Q2 | 93.8% certified | 4.15% | 2.01% | 36,356 decided |
| 2019-Q1 | 89.8% certified | 6.34% | 3.87% | 23,670 decided |
| 2018-Q4 | 88.8% certified | 6.21% | 4.94% | 17,705 decided |
| 2018-Q3 | 92.5% certified | 4.82% | 2.72% | 38,775 decided |
| 2018-Q2 | 93.4% certified | 4.02% | 2.58% | 39,975 decided |
| 2018-Q1 | 90.2% certified | 5.51% | 4.26% | 22,618 decided |
| 2017-Q4 | 87.8% certified | 7.07% | 5.09% | 18,116 decided |
| 2017-Q3 | 89.5% certified | 5.85% | 4.63% | 19,191 decided |
| 2017-Q2 | 89.4% certified | 7.06% | 3.55% | 28,738 decided |
| 2017-Q1 | 91.1% certified | 5.31% | 3.55% | 24,353 decided |
| 2016-Q4 | 91.0% certified | 5.73% | 3.26% | 24,733 decided |
| 2016-Q3 | 92.3% certified | 4.38% | 3.33% | 30,554 decided |
| 2016-Q2 | 92.5% certified | 4.12% | 3.34% | 34,189 decided |
| 2016-Q1 | 92.5% certified | 3.52% | 3.94% | 34,664 decided |
| 2015-Q4 | 91.1% certified | 4.65% | 4.27% | 26,324 decided |
| 2015-Q3 | 90.4% certified | 5.57% | 3.99% | 27,410 decided |
| 2015-Q2 | 86.2% certified | 8.55% | 5.22% | 20,551 decided |
| 2015-Q1 | 90.6% certified | 4.48% | 4.90% | 22,257 decided |
| 2014-Q4 | 88.2% certified | 5.81% | 6.01% | 18,338 decided |
| 2014-Q3 | 90.0% certified | 3.95% | 6.06% | 17,074 decided |
| 2014-Q2 | 90.3% certified | 5.01% | 4.71% | 23,307 decided |
| 2014-Q1 | 88.7% certified | 6.40% | 4.85% | 19,269 decided |
| 2013-Q4 | 83.4% certified | 7.91% | 8.73% | 10,873 decided |
| 2013-Q3 | 77.9% certified | 12.05% | 10.03% | 9,413 decided |
| 2013-Q2 | 75.7% certified | 15.88% | 8.38% | 8,875 decided |
| 2013-Q1 | 78.8% certified | 15.02% | 6.18% | 11,449 decided |
| 2012-Q4 | 86.1% certified | 9.11% | 4.83% | 14,065 decided |
| 2012-Q3 | 87.7% certified | 8.63% | 3.66% | 23,690 decided |
| 2012-Q2 | 85.5% certified | 9.29% | 5.21% | 20,121 decided |
| 2012-Q1 | 70.6% certified | 21.30% | 8.09% | 10,015 decided |
| 2011-Q4 | 81.0% certified | 14.35% | 4.60% | 11,733 decided |
| 2011-Q3 | 86.0% certified | 8.86% | 5.12% | 13,851 decided |
| 2011-Q2 | 80.9% certified | 14.59% | 4.49% | 15,711 decided |
| 2011-Q1 | 82.0% certified | 14.12% | 3.89% | 20,540 decided |
| 2010-Q4 | 80.2% certified | 16.59% | 3.20% | 22,795 decided |
| 2010-Q3 | 83.6% certified | 12.97% | 3.40% | 18,004 decided |
| 2010-Q2 | 86.6% certified | 10.54% | 2.84% | 23,244 decided |
| 2010-Q1 | 89.3% certified | 8.17% | 2.54% | 25,915 decided |
| 2009-Q4 | 86.0% certified | 8.28% | 5.70% | 13,714 decided |
| 2009-Q3 | 62.8% certified | 18.96% | 18.28% | 4,093 decided |
| 2009-Q2 | 85.4% certified | 9.88% | 4.70% | 17,315 decided |
| 2009-Q1 | 78.7% certified | 13.14% | 8.16% | 11,479 decided |
| 2008-Q4 | 60.5% certified | 22.16% | 17.39% | 5,073 decided |
| 2008-Q3 | 74.6% certified | 22.30% | 3.09% | 9,557 decided |
| 2008-Q2 | 85.9% certified | 12.64% | 1.42% | 17,940 decided |
| 2008-Q1 | 78.0% certified | 18.19% | 3.83% | 17,879 decided |
| 2007-Q4 | 79.1% certified | 15.80% | 5.12% | 15,987 decided |
Both strips share one scale. Each quarter is when DOL decided the cases, whatever quarter they were filed in. The quarters at the ends are partial.
Denial and withdrawal have moved in opposite directions. More
The heaviest and lightest days
Weekdays only: a quietest list full of Sundays says nothing.
Busiest
- Thu, Nov 19, 2015 1,988
- Wed, May 19, 2010 1,856
- Wed, Aug 1, 2018 1,644
- Thu, May 30, 2019 1,616
- Wed, May 13, 2026 1,581
Quietest
- Thu, Jan 1, 2026 0
- Thu, Oct 30, 2025 0
- Wed, Oct 29, 2025 0
- Tue, Oct 28, 2025 0
- Mon, Oct 27, 2025 0
101 weekdays carry no determination at all, so the quietest list is a list of ties: federal holidays, the January 2018 shutdown and the October 2025 stoppage.
Why a zero is a zero
Each of these is a day DOL decided nothing, and none is a gap in the record. The series is counted from the case corpus, so a day with no cases decided produces no row, and that day is read as zero.
Waiting on a case?
Pace alone doesn't place a case in the queue. The decision estimator reads how many filings sit ahead of your month, and processing times carries DOL's own position.
Want the cases themselves?
Every decision counted here is one row in the case browser, and the methodology says how each figure is computed.
FAQs
How many PERM cases does DOL decide a day?
This page's chart is the measured answer, working day by working day, from the per-case status feed. Output is a weekday affair with a strong weekly shape, which is why estimates on this site count business days rather than calendar ones.
Daily decisions through Jun 30, 2026 · Per-case statuses through Nov 12, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Daily decisions: Derived from the disclosure corpus · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly with the files
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Nov 12, 2026 · daily
What each source includes
Daily decisions: Derived from decided cases, so it counts determinations DOL issued, never cases waiting.
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.
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