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Friday

PERM decisions, October 16, 2026

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Certified

585

8% below a usual Friday (633)

Denied

23

7 more than a usual Friday (16)

Withdrawn

14

3 more than a usual Friday (11)

by the employer

Letters sent

48

an RFI, an audit or a notice to the employer

This day is complete: it ran from 7 AM Eastern to 7 AM the next morning, when DOL's evening work lands.

Which filing dates DOL certified

8 in 10 of the day's certifications were filed between December 15 and December 23, 2025. The busiest filing day was December 22, 2025, with 165.

Certified cases by the month they were filed, with each month's share of the day
Filed in Certified
Nov 2025 20 (3%)
Dec 2025 551 (94%)
8 other months 14 (2%)

The whole span runs from September 6, 2024 to December 31, 2025: a few older cases come back from an RFI or an appeal, and a few newer ones are decided out of order.

The day in one line

For a group chat, with the page's address typed out.

DOL certified 585 PERM cases on Friday, October 16. 8 in 10 were filed between December 15 and December 23, 2025. 23 denied, 14 withdrawn. Every case: permtracker.app/perm-updates/2026-10-16

The cases

Every PERM case DOL moved that day. Pick a status to narrow the list.

743 of 743 PERM cases

Prevailing wage requests

DOL issued 436 wage determinations, 8 in 10 of them on requests filed between July 7 and July 13, 2026, and asked for more on 75. Every wage request DOL moved that day

Per-case statuses through Nov 12, 2026 · Wage request statuses through Nov 12, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.

The sources in full

Per-case statuses: flag.dol.gov/recaptcha/caseStatus (DOL, direct) · data through Nov 12, 2026 · daily

Wage request statuses: flag.dol.gov case status (DOL, direct) · data through Nov 12, 2026 · daily

What each source includes

Per-case statuses: Every PERM case DOL indexes, pending included. No wage, law firm or worksite: DOL reveals those only when a case is published.

Wage request statuses: Live status of prevailing wage requests, pending included. The wage itself isn't here. It arrives with the quarterly file.

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