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Live PERM data and free calculators
DOL figures, as of October 5, 2026.
DOL is deciding cases filed
December 2025
Analyst review, the queue nearly every case sits in.
Average to a determination
336 days
Across cases DOL decided recently. An RFI or audit can make one case take longer.
Wage requests pending
49,034
Prevailing wage, the stage before recruitment.
Where's your case? When could it be decided?
Live DOL status, your place in the queue and an estimate. Free, no account.
The queue, oldest first
Every PERM waits in filing-month order. Find your month.
All 21 calculators
Decision times, the wage, I-140 and I-485 queues, priority dates, the green card drawn to scale, and every statutory deadline.
Data fields
Search all programs
One box across PERM, wage requests, LCAs and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1.
By state
An interactive map of filings, approval rates and wages by state.
Wages
Median offered wage by occupation, from what employers committed to pay.
Employers
Every sponsor in DOL's files, ranked, with track records.
Law firms
Who files the most PERM cases, and how fast.
Denial rates
What gets denied, by wage, by year, and by what the form declares.
Case search
Every decided case DOL has published, by employer, job and outcome.
Wage requests
Prevailing wage requests, searchable before the PERM exists.
H-1B LCAs
Labor condition applications as DOL confirms them, by employer and title.
H-2A, H-2B and CW-1
Seasonal farm and non-farm filings as DOL confirms them, by employer.
The queue, day by day
Queue backlog
Every filing month's pending cases, by DOL queue.
Daily activity
How many cases DOL decides each day.
RFI and audits
How often cases leave filing order, and what follows.
Visa bulletin
Every cutoff since October 2014, and whether your date is current.
How every figure is computed: the methodology page.
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