Filed February 2026

Where this month sits

DOL publishes November 2025 as the filing month its analyst review is working as of August 28, 2026. February 2026 is 3 months ahead of that, so DOL hasn’t reached it yet.

43,806 cases filed before February 2026 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

4,809 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 4,809 the ordinary queue, worked in filing order
• Out of filing order 393 an information request, an audit, supervised recruitment or a hold takes a case off the ordinary queue
• Under appeal or review 1 cases that went to appeal after an adverse determination

Already decided

187 of the 5,390 applications filed in February 2026 have a final determination. 185 of those are withdrawals, which an employer files rather than DOL issuing a determination. 2 are certifications or denials.