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RFI, audits and appeals

Application on hold

APPLICATION ON HOLD

The application is not moving and no determination has been made.

Cases at this stage

1,855

as of August 26, 2026

Typical wait so far

181 days

157 to 198 days across the middle

Employer names

7

largest holds 1,831

Which filing months these come from

A month appearing here means DOL is holding cases from it at this stage today. It does not say how often DOL issues one: that would need the cases it has already released, and a live status shows only where a case stands now.

  1. 2026-01 1,205
  2. 2026-02 393
  3. 2025-12 234
  4. 2025-11 6
  5. 2025-06 4
  6. 2025-07 3
  7. 2025-08 3
  8. 2025-04 2
  9. 2025-05 2
  10. 2025-01 1
  11. 2025-02 1
  12. 2025-03 1

The 250 that have waited longest

Oldest filing first, so the top of this list is the longest anyone has waited at this stage. DOL's live record carries the case number, the employer and the job title; the wage, the law firm and the worksite state arrive only with publication, which is why they are absent rather than blank.

1,605 newer cases at this stage are not listed. There is no page two on purpose: to find one case, ask DOL for it directly through the case lookup, which reads the live record at the moment you ask rather than whenever this page was last built.

DOL live case record, as of August 26, 2026

The other stages

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Sep 1, 2026 · daily