Filed July 2025
9,890 applications carry a July 2025 filing date. 9,418 have a decision. 472 were still waiting when the scan last checked.
Anything undecided here is read from DOL’s own case-status search, in batches, every 12 hours. That page is also the authority for any single case. Because it is a sweep rather than a live reading, a case decided between sweeps still counts as waiting here, so these backlog figures run a little high rather than a little low.
Where this month sits
DOL publishes November 2025 as the filing month its analyst review is working as of August 28, 2026, so it has worked past July 2025. Anything still open here is behind the main queue rather than waiting for its turn.
2,869 cases filed before July 2025 were undecided at their last check, so that’s what sits in front of this month, counting only cases DOL still has to decide. Some will have been decided since, so it runs a little high. It isn’t divided into a wait: the timeline calculator gives the envelope, from the spread of cases DOL has actually decided.
Still pending
106 of them are in analyst review, the ordinary queue that moves in filing order. The rest are in queues that take a case out of that order, so their wait doesn’t follow the month.
- Analyst review 106 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
- Out of filing order 194 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
- Under appeal or review 172 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination
| DOL status | Cases |
|---|---|
| Analyst review 106 | |
| Analyst Review | 106 |
| Out of filing order 194 | |
| RFI Issued | 191 |
| Application On Hold | 3 |
| Under appeal or review 172 | |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 170 |
| BALCA Appeals | 2 |
Already decided
9,418 of the 9,890 applications filed in July 2025 have a final determination.
- Certified 8,767
- Withdrawn 407
- Denied 244
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Sep 1, 2026 · daily
Processing times: DOL FLAG (flag.dol.gov/processingtimes) · data through Aug 28, 2026 · daily