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Critical Ideas, Inc.

We hold 2 PERM cases for this sponsor, filed from September 16, 2026 to October 7, 2026. Name as DOL prints it on the application.

DOL hasn't published any of this sponsor's cases yet

A case reaches DOL's quarterly files only once it's decided, so this sponsor has no approval rate, decision time, wage or rank yet. Below are its cases, with DOL's status on each.

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Cases we hold

2

from DOL's live case record

Waiting on a decision

2

all of them

Newest filing

October 7, 2026

oldest September 16, 2026

Where those cases are standing

DOL's own status on each case, counted. Ordered biggest first: these are not steps in a sequence, and a case can reach an audit without an RFI or re-enter after a decision.

ANALYST REVIEW
2100%

A Department of Labor analyst has the application. This is the main queue, and it is where most pending PERM cases sit.

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An email when DOL moves its cases as a group: five or more on or off hold in a day, or a batch decided well above its usual pace.

Fewer than five of its PERM cases are pending as of October 23, 2026, and the census that draws this bar starts at five.

What DOL has done to its cases as a group

Nothing employer-wide since this site's record began on August 27, 2026.

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How long their cases are taking

  1. Every employer

    median of 32,219 decisions in the same 90 days

    301 days

None of their cases were decided in the last 90 days, too few for a median of their own. Filing to decision, over decisions we watched DOL make; withdrawals left out.

Filed today: a new case joins the same line as anyone's, behind 79,592 cases, and would be decided around March 21, 2027 (between March 1, 2027 and April 30, 2027). Estimate another date

All 2 cases

DOL's live record carries the case number, the job title and the status. The wage, the law firm and the worksite state arrive with publication, which is why they are missing here rather than blank. Each number links to its own live status.

DOL live case record, as of October 23, 2026

Its wage requests and LCAs

Filed by Critical Ideas, Inc., newest first. Decided ones carry the wage from DOL's quarterly files.

Wage requests

  • P-100-25239-271804 Software Engineer II $161,637 per year 2025-08-27 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-25122-929410 Senior Economist, Pricing $117,541 per year 2025-05-01 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23261-356078 Software Engineer II, Machine Learning $113,443 per year 2023-09-18 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23234-285529 Lead Consumer Products Manager $150,654 per year 2023-08-22 · DETERMINATION ISSUED
  • P-100-23206-215025 Senior Product Analyst $81,536 per year 2023-07-25 · DETERMINATION ISSUED

All wage requests by this employer

H-1B LCAs

  • I-200-23268-377637 Software Engineer, Machine Learning $162,750 per year 2023-09-25 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-23206-214915 Software Engineer, Machine Learning $162,750 per year 2023-07-25 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-23072-842707 Project Manager - Marketing Ops $80,000 per year 2023-03-13 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-23067-832554 Senior Economist, Pricing $170,900 per year 2023-03-08 · CERTIFIED
  • I-200-23062-821948 Software Engineer $153,000 per year 2023-03-03 · CERTIFIED

All H-1B LCAs by this employer

Source: DOL's own case-status service, flag.dol.gov, where any of these numbers can be looked up. A filing shows there soon after it's made, months before DOL's quarterly files.

What its H-1B LCAs were for

From DOL's quarterly LCA files: 21 LCAs filed by Critical Ideas, Inc., 20 of them certified with the worker breakdown on Form ETA-9035.

New hires and transfers

14 positions for new employment, 4 moving here from another employer.

  • New employment 7a 14 · 70%
  • Change of employer 7e 4 · 20%
  • Continuing 7b 0 · 0%
  • Change in previous employment 7c 0 · 0%
  • Concurrent employment 7d 0 · 0%
  • Amended petition 7f 2 · 10%

Shares of the 20 worker positions requested. These are positions on certified LCAs, not people hired: DOL certifies an LCA before any petition, and many are never used.

What each box on the form means
  • New employment (7a). Starting with a new employer.
  • Change of employer (7e). Moving here from another employer, keeping the visa classification already held.
  • Continuing (7b). Staying with the same employer.
  • Change in previous employment (7c). Same employer, no material change to the job duties.
  • Concurrent employment (7d). Adding this employer while keeping another.
  • Amended petition (7f). Same employer, with a material change to the job duties.

Form ETA-9035, Section B, Item 7, in DOL's words from its LCA record layout. One LCA can tick several boxes.

Wage level it chose

  • Level I 2 · 10%
  • Level II 4 · 20%
  • Level III 5 · 25%
  • Level IV 9 · 45%

Shares of the 20 certified LCAs that named an OES level. The form asks for the level only when the employer set the wage from the OES survey itself; 0 of 20 used another source, such as a DOL wage determination or another survey. Level I is entry, Level IV fully competent.

What it declared on Section H

H-1B-dependent
No
Found a willful violator
No

As answered on its newest LCA, filed September 25, 2023. Declared H-1B-dependent on 0 of 21 LCAs, and a willful violator on 0 of 21. Both are the employer's own answers.

What the two answers mean

H-1B-dependent (20 CFR 655.736(a)): 25 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees in the US and more than 7 H-1B workers; 26 to 50 and more than 12; or 51 or more, with H-1B workers equal to at least 15% of them.

Willful violator (655.736(f)): DOL or the Justice Department found a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact in the five years before the LCA was filed.

Either one adds two promises to the employer's LCAs: not to displace US workers, and to recruit US workers before hiring H-1B workers (655.738, 655.739). They don't apply to an LCA used only for exempt workers, paid at least $60,000 a year or holding a related master's degree (655.737). The rule on eCFR

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Where the queue stands

DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case. Processing times covers the whole of it.

This page is rebuilt periodically, so a status on it can lag DOL by days. The case lookup does not lag: it asks DOL at the moment you ask it.

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 23, 2026 · daily

What this data includes

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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