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BALCA appeals

BALCA APPEALS

The case is before the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals, a panel of administrative law judges sitting outside the office that denied it. The Board reviews the record the decision was made on, plus the request for review and any briefs, and everyone gets 30 days to file a statement of position.

The Board affirms the denial, directs the certifying officer to grant the certification, or orders a hearing. The regulation lists those three and nothing else.

Cases at this stage

351

as of August 27, 2026

Typical wait so far

686 days

460 to 743 days across the middle

Employer names

167

largest holds 76

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. 2024-08 69
  2. 2024-10 55
  3. 2024-09 51
  4. 2025-01 46
  5. 2024-12 43
  6. 2024-06 22
  7. 2024-05 15
  8. 2023-06 11
  9. 2024-07 10
  10. 2024-11 8
  11. 2025-02 4
  12. 2025-03 3
  13. 2025-04 2
  14. 2025-05 2
  15. 2025-06 2
  16. 2025-07 2
  17. 2023-07 1
  18. 2023-10 1

4 further months hold smaller numbers. The oldest is 2023-06.

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.

101 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 27, 2026

The other stages

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