Updated
Filed October 2025
96% decided
1,553 of the 1,616 applications filed in October 2025 have a decision.
- 1,440 certified
- 14 denied
- 99 withdrawn by the employer
- 26 in DOL's line
- 37 on hold, at an RFI or on appeal
- In DOL's line
- 26
- analyst review, worked in filing order
- Outside the line
- 37
- on hold, at an RFI or on appeal
- DOL's queue has passed this month
- 26
- still in line, decided as DOL gets to them
This is a sweep, not a live reading, so a case decided between sweeps still counts as waiting here: the backlog figures run a little high rather than a little low.
Where these come from
Anything undecided here is read from DOL’s own case-status search, in batches: every case daily, and the undecided ones at least twice a day. That page is also the authority for any single case.
October 2025: DOL shut the filing system
1,616 applications carry an October 2025 filing date in the per-case scan, against 13,629 in September and 15,034 in November. That’s a real event at DOL rather than a hole in the scan.
In an announcement dated 5 November 2025, DOL wrote that “due to the government shutdown, beginning October 1, OFLC ceased all application processing activities and suspended public access to its Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system”.
October holds mailed applications DOL backdated to their postmark. More
October isn’t empty because paper kept moving. DOL says employers who couldn’t file electronically posted their applications, that OFLC entered those by hand once FLAG was back, and that each one “will be considered to have been filed on the date it was postmarked”. So a good part of the 1,616 is mail, backdated into a month when the portal was shut.
How this was checked
DOL’s announcement adds that employers “were unable to prepare and submit requests for prevailing wage determinations or labor certifications using the FLAG system… between October 1, 2025, through October 31, 2025”. It extended affected response deadlines by 33 calendar days, the span during which staff, “officially recalled back to work on November 3”, could not accept or process applications.
Our own counts land on those dates without being fitted to them. The last ordinary day of determinations is 30 September; there are two in the 30 days that follow; the filing system reopens on 31 October, the day DOL announced the resumption; and ordinary volume returns on 3 November, the day DOL says staff came back.
The collapse also appears in DOL’s own quarterly disclosure release, which is first-party and built from separate records: DOL issued 21 PERM determinations in the whole of October 2025, against 14,239 in September and 8,890 in November. Nineteen of the 21 landed on 31 October. That release holds decided cases only, while the 1,616 above is from the per-case scan, which holds every application whether or not it has been decided.
One observation rather than a finding: OFLC’s filing portal carries the 31 October resumption notice and nothing announcing the stoppage. Its announcements run from 16 May 2025 straight to 31 October. The explanation above is on www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/news, a different DOL host, which refuses automated clients, so the text quoted here was read from an Internet Archive capture of that page.
DOL’s announcement of 5 November 2025, archived OFLC’s resumption notice of 31 October 2025
Where this month sits
DOL publishes December 2025 as the filing month its analyst review is working as of October 5, 2026, so it has worked past October 2025. Anything still open here is behind the main queue rather than waiting for its turn.
3,785 cases filed before October 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.
Filed in October 2025?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it
Every status, pending and decided, and the October 2025 cases themselves
Still pending
26 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 26 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
- Out of filing order 16 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
- Under appeal or review 21 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination
| DOL status | Cases |
|---|---|
| Analyst review 26 | |
| Analyst Review | 26 |
| Out of filing order 16 | |
| RFI Issued | 16 |
| Under appeal or review 21 | |
| Reconsideration Appeals | 21 |
Already decided
1,553 of the 1,616 applications filed in October 2025 have a final determination.
- Certified 1,440
- Withdrawn 99
- Denied 14
Who filed in October 2025
1,547 of the 1,616 October 2025 filings aren't in DOL's published files yet: 63 still waiting, 1,484 decided since the last file. DOL's case-status service gives the employer, job title and status. Everything else arrives when DOL publishes the case.
Newer than DOL's published files
Live from DOL's case-status service
1,547 live cases were filed in October 2025: 63 still waiting, 1,484 decided since DOL's last published file. Wage, law firm, state and decision date arrive when DOL publishes the case.
| Case | Status | Employer | Job title | Filed | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G-300-25305-355744 | Certified | St. Olaf College | Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-300-25305-355514 | RFI Issued | Paul Smith's College | Associate Professor - Chemistry | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-300-25304-352856 | Certified | The University of Vermont | Lecturer | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-18 |
| G-200-26132-899910 | Certified | GW ENTERPRISES LLC | Food Preparation Worker | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-28 |
| G-200-26131-894082 | Certified | LISA KANT | NANNY | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-29 |
| G-200-26128-888850 | Certified | HONORATA APOLONIO SCHALL | Caregiver | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-10-13 |
| G-200-26128-888120 | Certified | DNVB INC. | Customer Service Quality Lead | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-26128-887992 | Certified | ADELAIDA FIEL BROWN | Caregiver | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-10-13 |
| G-200-26127-881652 | Certified | FOREVER CHEVRON 2021, INC. | Night Shift Manager | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-26125-871361 | Certified | FJORD CRANE SERVICE, LLC | Installation Specialist & Rigger | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-26119-850329 | Certified | JL RESIDENTIAL CARE, INC. | Caregiver | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25305-356343 | Analyst Review | John Paul And Doug Adult Family Home, LLC | Lead Residents Assistants | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25305-356327 | Analyst Review | AV NAIL SPA SUGAR HOUSE LLC | Nail Technician / Nail Tech Assistant | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25305-356314 | Certified | House of Noodle LLC | Thai Restaurant Supervisor | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-356307 | Certified | AV NAIL SPA SUGAR HOUSE LLC | Nail Technician / Nail Tech Assistant | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-356287 | Certified | AV NAIL SPA SUGAR HOUSE LLC | Nail Technician / Nail Tech Assistant | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-356265 | Certified | AV NAIL SPA SUGAR HOUSE LLC | Janitor | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-10-05 |
| G-200-25305-356243 | Certified | John Paul And Doug Adult Family Home, LLC | Lead Residents Assistants | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-10-05 |
| G-200-25305-356220 | Certified | SAIDA, LLP | Food Preparation Worker | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-356211 | Certified | Quantum Business Solutions LLC | Accounting Associate | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-356166 | Certified | MT NAILS SPA LLC | Nail Technician / Nail Tech Assistant | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-10-05 |
| G-200-25305-355852 | RFI Issued | Rodriguez Quality Cleaning | Housekeeping Cleaner | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25305-355760 | Certified | TSLA Distribution, LLC | Customer Service Supervisor | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25305-355714 | Certified | Stoughton Trailers, LLC | Assembler | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355709 | Certified | Stoughton Trailers, LLC | Assembler | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355708 | Certified | Stoughton Trailers, LLC | Assembler | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355706 | Certified | Stoughton Trailers, LLC | Assembler | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355705 | Certified | Stoughton Trailers, LLC | Assembler | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355507 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355504 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355501 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355499 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355496 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355488 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355485 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-22 |
| G-200-25305-355480 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-02 |
| G-200-25305-355477 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-02 |
| G-200-25305-355469 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-02 |
| G-200-25305-355465 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355462 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355455 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355451 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355449 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
| G-200-25305-355444 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-355440 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-355435 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-355431 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-355424 | Certified | Patriot Farmer Solutions Inc. | Agricultural Equipment Operator | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-08-31 |
| G-200-25305-354899 | RFI Issued | PARK CHO DENTAL PARTNERSHIP | DENTAL ASSISTANTS | Filed 2025-10-31 | |
| G-200-25304-353997 | Certified | GRSee Consulting Inc | Technical Customer Service Representative | Filed 2025-10-31 | Seen decided 2026-09-01 |
All 1,547 live October 2025 filings, pending and decided, newest first. DOL doesn't decide a month in filing order, so decisions won't follow this list.
Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Oct 18, 2026 · daily
Processing times: DOL FLAG (flag.dol.gov/processingtimes) · data through Oct 5, 2026 · daily
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
What each source 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.
Processing times: DOL's published queue position and average determination time. DOL's own figure, not ours.
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.