Filed September 2025
13,629 applications carry a September 2025 filing date. 12,658 have a decision. 971 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 September 2025. Anything still open here is behind the main queue rather than waiting for its turn.
3,870 cases filed before September 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
566 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 566 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
- Out of filing order 385 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
- Under appeal or review 20 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination
| DOL status | Cases |
|---|---|
| Analyst review 566 | |
| Analyst Review | 566 |
| Out of filing order 385 | |
| RFI Issued | 385 |
| Under appeal or review 20 | |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 20 |
Already decided
12,658 of the 13,629 applications filed in September 2025 have a final determination.
- Certified 11,947
- Withdrawn 517
- 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