Filed August 2025
9,677 applications carry an August 2025 filing date. 9,148 have a decision. 529 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 August 2025. Anything still open here is behind the main queue rather than waiting for its turn.
3,341 cases filed before August 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
264 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 264 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
- Out of filing order 221 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
- Under appeal or review 44 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination
| DOL status | Cases |
|---|---|
| Analyst review 264 | |
| Analyst Review | 264 |
| Out of filing order 221 | |
| RFI Issued | 218 |
| Application On Hold | 3 |
| Under appeal or review 44 | |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 43 |
| BALCA Appeals | 1 |
Already decided
9,148 of the 9,677 applications filed in August 2025 have a final determination.
- Certified 8,507
- Withdrawn 447
- Denied 194
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