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RFI, audits and appeals

RFI issued

RFI ISSUED

The analyst reviewing the application wants something clarified before deciding it. In DOL's queue language this is a request for information, and it is lighter than an audit: it asks a question rather than calling in the whole recruitment file.

The employer or its attorney answers and the case goes back to the analyst for a determination. Of the ones that have reached a decision, most were certified.

Cases at this stage

1,043

as of August 27, 2026

Typical wait so far

362 days

320 to 423 days across the middle

Employer names

887

largest holds 11

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. 2025-09 385
  2. 2025-08 218
  3. 2025-07 191
  4. 2025-06 109
  5. 2025-11 55
  6. 2025-10 49
  7. 2026-05 14
  8. 2025-05 11
  9. 2025-04 4
  10. 2024-10 2
  11. 2024-05 1
  12. 2025-01 1
  13. 2026-01 1
  14. 2026-07 1
  15. 2026-08 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.

793 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