Filed December 2025
14,889 applications carry a December 2025 filing date. 506 have a decision. 14,383 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. December 2025 is 1 month ahead of that, so DOL hasn’t reached it yet.
18,295 cases filed before December 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
14,149 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 14,149 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
- Out of filing order 234 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
- Under appeal or review 0 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination
| DOL status | Cases |
|---|---|
| Analyst review 14,149 | |
| Analyst Review | 14,149 |
| Out of filing order 234 | |
| Application On Hold | 234 |
Already decided
506 of the 14,889 applications filed in December 2025 have a final determination. 501 of those are withdrawals, which an employer files rather than DOL issuing a determination. 5 are certifications or denials.
- Withdrawn 501
- Certified 4
- Denied 1
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