# PERM Tracker

> PERM Tracker (permtracker.app) is a free web app for the US Department of Labor PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) labor certification process, for both the person waiting on a case and the attorney managing one. Without an account: look a case up by NUMBER across every DOL program - PERM (G-), prevailing wage request (P-), labor condition application for H-1B, H-1B1 or E-3 (I-200 to I-203) and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 (H-300/H-400/C-500) - for its live DOL status and a stage-aware decision estimate (with email alerts on changes); or, with no case number at all, find it by employer name, law firm, worksite state or occupation. Use timeline calculators for every green-card stage (PWD, PERM, I-140, I-485), and browse DOL's own disclosure and queue data as searchable datasets. With a free account: case-management software that computes every interdependent PERM deadline per case.

PERM Tracker at permtracker.app, run by PERM Tracker LLC in Florida: a free site that reads the Department of Labor's own case records for PERM, prevailing wage, H-1B LCA, H-2A and H-2B filings, with a free deadline app for immigration attorneys.

Last updated: October 25, 2026.

Every figure on this site is measured from a named federal source and carries the window it was measured over. Nothing is modelled. Where the data cannot support a number, the site says so rather than estimating one: there is no per-case denial-risk score, and processing-time estimates are withheld for filing cohorts too young to measure.

## Current figures

- DOL is issuing PERM determinations for cases filed in January 2026 (as of 2026-10-05, from DOL's FLAG processing-times page).
- Average calendar days from filing to determination: 336 (DOL's own published average for August 2026).
- Decided PERM cases in the current disclosure window: 373,939, unioned and de-duplicated by case number from PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q3.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2025_Q4.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_New_Form_FY2024_Q4.xlsx, PERM_Disclosure_Data_FY2024_Q4.xlsx.
- Overall PERM denial rate across that window: 3.2% of 355,130 decided cases. Withdrawals are counted as neither approvals nor denials.
- Median offered annual wage on certified PERM cases: $103,272.

These refresh when DOL publishes. Cite the date alongside the number.

## Data and calculators

- [Case status lookup (PERM, prevailing wage and LCA)](https://permtracker.app/perm-case-status): Check a case number for its live DOL status, its place in the queue, and a stage-aware decision estimate. Takes every DOL program on the same case-number counter: PERM (G-), prevailing wage requests (P-), labor condition applications for H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 workers (I-200 to I-203), and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 applications (H-300-, H-400-, C-500-). Works for PENDING cases, not just decided ones, because it asks DOL directly rather than reading the quarterly files. Free, no account, and it emails when the status changes. No case number? Search by employer name instead.
- [USCIS receipt numbers decoded](https://permtracker.app/uscis-case-status): Decode a USCIS receipt number (three letters and ten digits, like EAC2190123456): the office behind the prefix and the conventional reading of the digits, with links to USCIS's own Case Status Online and Emma for the status itself. USCIS's record of the I-140 or I-485, distinct from the DOL PERM lookup.
- [Data overview](https://permtracker.app/tools): Where DOL's PERM queue stands right now, with every calculator and dataset one click away.
- [PERM queue backlog](https://permtracker.app/perm-queue): Every filing month's pending census: how many cases are undecided, in which DOL queue, and how far each month has progressed.
- [DOL debarment lists](https://permtracker.app/debarments): Every employer, attorney and agent barred from PERM, H-1B, H-2A or H-2B filings, with the period and the violation as DOL published them.
- [PERM employers with cases on hold, at RFI or under appeal](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers/under-review): Every employer with PERM cases outside DOL's normal queue (on hold, at RFI or NORD, or under the employer's own appeal), by count and share, with the date each hold began and the days DOL moved an employer's cases in bulk.
- [PERM RFIs, audits and appeals](https://permtracker.app/perm-rfi-audit): How many pending cases sit in a request for information, an audit or an appeal, and the measured funnel of how RFIs resolve.
- [PERM daily decision activity](https://permtracker.app/perm-decision-activity): Decisions per working day, the outcome mix, and the weekly shape of DOL's output.
- [PERM processing times](https://permtracker.app/perm-processing-times): Which filing month DOL is currently deciding, the average days to a determination, and how the queue frontier has moved. Read live from DOL's FLAG system.
- [PERM denial rates](https://permtracker.app/perm-denial-risk): Measured denial rates by ETA-9089 answer, offered wage band, occupation, state and fiscal year. Group rates only: there is deliberately no per-case risk score.
- [PERM salaries by occupation](https://permtracker.app/perm-wages): Median offered annual wage for every occupation in the disclosure window, with filing volume and approval rate. These are wages employers committed to in a federal filing, not survey estimates.
- [PERM employers](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers): Every company that filed a PERM case, ranked by volume, with approval rate and median processing days.
- [PERM law firms](https://permtracker.app/perm-attorneys): Every law firm filing PERM cases, with volume, approval rate and median processing days.
- [PERM filings by state](https://permtracker.app/perm-by-state): Filing volume, approval rate and wages by worksite state, on a map and in a table.
- [PERM case search](https://permtracker.app/perm-cases): Every PERM case: DOL's published files, plus every pending and newly decided case from DOL's case-status service, read daily, searchable by employer, job title and filing month.
- [PWD case search](https://permtracker.app/pwd-cases): Find a prevailing wage request (ETA-9141) by employer, job title and filing month, with the case number, filing date and DOL's current status. Read daily from DOL's case-status service.
- [LCA case search](https://permtracker.app/lca-cases): Find an H-1B labor condition application (ETA-9035) by employer, job title and filing month, with the case number, filing date and DOL's current status. Read daily from DOL's case-status service.
- [H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 case search](https://permtracker.app/seasonal-cases): Find an H-2A application (ETA-9142A, H-300- numbers) or job order (ETA-790A, JO-A-300-), an H-2B application (ETA-9142B, H-400-), a CW-1 application (ETA-9142C, C-500-) or an H-2B or CW-1 prevailing wage request (P-400-, P-500-) by employer, job title and filing month, with DOL's current status. Read daily from DOL's case-status service, pending included; no wage or worker count.
- [Search every DOL program at once](https://permtracker.app/case-search): One employer, law firm, worksite state or occupation searched across PERM, prevailing wage requests, H-1B LCAs and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 filings together. DOL runs them all off one case-number counter but publishes them separately, so an employer's record is normally split across several searches; this returns them together, each result labelled with the program it came from.
- [PERM calculators](https://permtracker.app/calculators): Every calculator in one place, with what each one answers.
- [PERM decision estimator](https://permtracker.app/tools/perm-timeline-calculator): Reads a filing month against where DOL's queue actually is, and withholds an estimate when the cohort is too young to measure.
- [PERM deadline calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/perm-deadline-calculator): The ETA-9089 filing window, recruitment timing and the quiet period, per 20 CFR 656.17, and whether the prevailing wage expiration still limits them (recruitment begun before the determination). Copies every date as text, saves them as a calendar file with reminders, or carries them into a saved case.
- [Prevailing wage determination calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/pwd-calculator): PWD queue position and expiration under the OEWS wage-year rule.
- [Priority date and visa bulletin history](https://permtracker.app/tools/priority-date-calculator): Whether a priority date is current, and which way the cutoff has been moving across stored visa bulletins. Cutoffs move backwards as well as forwards.
- [I-140 queue estimator](https://permtracker.app/tools/i140-calculator): USCIS I-140 volumes and outcomes by petition subtype.
- [Green card timeline](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-timeline): The employment-based stages end to end, with what governs each one.
- [PERM salary explorer](https://permtracker.app/tools/salary-explorer): What sponsorship actually pays, by occupation, state and year, from the wage committed to on each certified filing. Not a survey estimate: every figure came off a federal form.
- [H-1B salary explorer](https://permtracker.app/lca-wages): The wage attested on certified H-1B LCAs, by occupation, worksite state and year, annualised from the unit each filing quoted: median, average and percentiles over the filings you select, from DOL's own disclosure files.
- [Top H-1B employers by year and state](https://permtracker.app/h1b-employers): The 100 busiest H-1B employers each fiscal year, nationally and in each state, ranked two ways: certified LCAs from DOL's disclosure files (FY2020 on, by worksite) and approvals from USCIS's H-1B Employer Data Hub (FY2009 on, by the petitioner's address), with positions, median yearly wage and each employer's full record.
- [Policy changes on the record](https://permtracker.app/policy-changes): Every Federal Register rule, proposed rule and notice from USCIS, DHS, State and DOL's ETA that matches PERM, prevailing wage, H-1B, I-140, adjustment of status, the visa bulletin or EB-5, with the Register's own abstract and a link to the document. No summaries, no predictions.
- [Compare two employers](https://permtracker.app/perm-employers/compare): Two PERM sponsors side by side from DOL's own files: filings, certification and denial counts with their interval, median days, median wage, what is pending now, and the occupations and states each files for.
- [Compare my offer](https://permtracker.app/tools/compare-my-offer): Where an offered salary sits among certified H-1B LCAs and PERM offers for the same occupation and state, as a percentile. The offer is placed in the browser and never sent to the site.
- [Every case status, explained](https://permtracker.app/perm-case-statuses): What each DOL FLAG status means for a PERM, a prevailing wage request or an H-1B LCA (analyst review, RFI issued, on hold, appeals, certified, expired), with the regulation that defines it or a note that none does, and today's count.
- [The visa bulletin by category and country](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin/categories): One page per employment-based bulletin line (EB-1 to EB-5, Other Workers, the EB-5 set-asides) for India, China, Mexico, the Philippines and the rest of the world: both charts this month, the final action cutoff a fiscal year at a time, and USCIS's own counts behind the line. No forecast.
- [Family-sponsored cutoff history](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin/family): Every family-sponsored cutoff (F1, F2A, F2B, F3, F4) from the visa bulletin archive by country: the latest final action and dates-for-filing cutoffs, how far each moved, and every retrogression. No queue position, because USCIS publishes no family inventory.
- [Layoff notices against sponsors](https://permtracker.app/layoffs): WARN Act layoff and closing notices as 47 states and DC publish them, matched by name to the employers in DOL's PERM record, each linked to the state's own file.
- [Open data](https://permtracker.app/open-data): Two datasets as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0: every visa bulletin cutoff (employment and family, final action and dates for filing, by category and country) back to June 2005, every one since October 2014, and every reading of DOL's PERM and prevailing wage processing-times page we've kept.
- [API and MCP server](https://permtracker.app/developers): A free JSON API (permtracker.app/v1, keys from Settings) and an MCP server (permtracker.app/mcp, no key needed) with six read-only tools: look up a PERM, prevailing wage, H-1B LCA or H-2A/H-2B case by number, estimate a PERM decision date, DOL's queues, the visa bulletin, and employer, law firm and occupation records.
- [Browser extension](https://permtracker.app/extension): A free Chrome extension that shows the employer's PERM green card and H-1B record from DOL's files on a job posting (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Handshake, Wellfound, and any page with JobPosting structured data on a click). It sends only the employer's name.
- [Badges](https://permtracker.app/badges): Embeddable SVG badges of DOL's own published figures, and every calculator, estimate and chart plus the case lookup as an iframe for other sites, with the HTML to copy.
- [The guide for the person waiting, in Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Vietnamese](https://permtracker.app/zh): Checking a case, where DOL's queue is, the steps after PERM, EB-3 Other Workers and this month's cutoffs, in five languages: /zh, /es, /pt-br, /ko and /vi. Figures and DOL's status words stay as DOL prints them.
- [Estimate scorecard](https://permtracker.app/estimate-scorecard): How close the decision-date estimates land: a nightly backtest that rebuilds DOL's queue on a past day and grades thousands of real decisions, a random sample of pending cases recorded every morning before the outcome and graded after, and the hand-recorded worked examples. Never edited.
- [Glossary](https://permtracker.app/glossary): Every term of the employment-based green card defined in plain words with the regulation it comes from (PERM, PWD, priority date, cutoff, retrogression, RFI, audit, BALCA, portability), each linked to the page where it meets real data.
- [RFI response deadline](https://permtracker.app/tools/rfi-deadline): The last day to answer a PERM request for information, counted from the date on DOL's letter under 20 CFR 656.20(a)(2), with the calendar around it.
- [Prevailing wage determination validity](https://permtracker.app/tools/pwd-validity): When a prevailing wage determination expires under 20 CFR 656.40(c), including the OEWS wage-year rule, and the recruitment or filing that must start inside it.
- [H-1B six-year limit and the 365-day rule](https://permtracker.app/tools/h1b-six-year-limit): When H-1B status maxes out, and the last day to file a PERM so one-year extensions stay available under AC21 section 106(a). Dates with citations, no prediction.
- [H-1B prevailing wage sources](https://permtracker.app/lca-wage-sources): Where H-1B prevailing wages come from, by fiscal year: DOL's OES data, private salary surveys (publishers and survey names) or union contracts, and the employers that use surveys most, from DOL's LCA files.
- [EAD automatic extension calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/ead-extension): Whether a work permit was automatically extended by its renewal, and to when: nothing for renewals received on or after October 30, 2025 (8 CFR 274a.13(e)), up to 540 days before that under 274a.13(d).
- [Green card sponsor finder](https://permtracker.app/sponsor-finder): Employers that file PERM cases for a job, typed in plain words: each employer's filings, approval rate, median offered wage and typical time to a decision for that job and state, filtered and sorted by any of them, and by industry, cases waiting with DOL now, H-1B transfers and likely cap-exempt status. Each links to its full record.
- [PERM by the numbers](https://permtracker.app/perm-by-the-numbers): The PERM totals DOL's own case records add up to and DOL doesn't publish, counted each night from its case-status search: cases waiting by stage and filing month, holds by employer with the day each began, decisions per day, new filings by week, job and employer, employers new to PERM, RFIs issued per week, wage requests waiting, and every reading of DOL's processing-times page.
- [PERM recruitment: ads, steps and timing](https://permtracker.app/perm-recruitment): Where PERM employers recruit and how long before filing, from DOL's Form 9089 Section H over every decided case filed on the current form: the Sunday ads and the newspapers by state, the additional steps, the notice of filing, and the days from each step to filing.
- [Top OPT and CPT employers](https://permtracker.app/opt-employers): ICE's own top-200 lists of employers of F-1 students on OPT, STEM OPT and CPT, for every year ICE published one, as ICE printed them.
- [H-1B lottery odds calculator](https://permtracker.app/tools/h1b-lottery-odds-calculator): The OEWS wage level an H-1B offer meets for its occupation and work areas, read live from DOL's wage search, the level 8 CFR 214.2(h)(8)(iii)(A)(4) assigns, and DHS's estimated chance of selection at that level.
- [Priority date retention and I-485 portability](https://permtracker.app/tools/priority-date-retention): From an I-140 approval date: when an employer's withdrawal stops revoking it, when a pending I-485 becomes portable under INA 204(j), and whether the priority date is kept.
- [Prevailing wage levels](https://permtracker.app/tools/wage-levels): DOL's four OEWS prevailing wage levels for any occupation in any metro or non-metro area, read live from the OFLC wage search with the series year each figure belongs to.
- [Green card government fees](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-fees): USCIS filing fees for the employment-based green card, from Form G-1055 with its edition date: I-140 and the asylum program fee tier, premium processing, I-485, I-765 and I-131 per person.
- [I-140 filing trends](https://permtracker.app/tools/i140-trends): USCIS I-140 receipts, approvals and denials over time by petition subtype, with the quarter each figure was published for.
- [I-485 queue position](https://permtracker.app/tools/i485-queue-position): Where an adjustment-of-status filing sits against USCIS's published pending inventory, by category and country of chargeability.
- [The green card line: people ahead of a priority date](https://permtracker.app/tools/green-card-line): Everyone ahead of a priority date in EB-2, EB-3 and EB-3 Other Workers by country: approved I-140s waiting (USCIS's count, spread by the measured PERM time), pending I-140s, and current I-485s, with families counted from DHS and years at State's FY2024 Table V pace. A range, checked against USCIS's I-485 counts where both exist.
- [EB-2 vs EB-3 for one priority date](https://permtracker.app/tools/eb2-vs-eb3): EB-2 and EB-3 side by side for one country and priority date: this month's final action and dates-for-filing cutoffs, and the people ahead in each line as a range. Names one line as shorter only when the ranges don't overlap, and compares people, not waits.
- [Which employment green card category fits](https://permtracker.app/tools/which-green-card): A few questions (sponsor, the job's minimum requirement, the person's qualifications, five statements) matched against 8 CFR 204.5's definitions and USCIS's national interest waiver test: which of EB-1A, EB-1B, EB-1C, EB-2, the EB-2 waiver, EB-3 and EB-3 Other Workers could apply, and what each needs. Information, not legal advice.
- [H-1B lottery odds by year](https://permtracker.app/h1b-lottery-odds): USCIS's H-1B cap registration and selection counts for FY2021 to FY2026, the share selected each year, and DHS's own estimate (90 FR 60864) of a beneficiary's chance at each OEWS wage level under the weighted lottery that began with FY2027. Labelled as an estimate; no FY2027 count is published yet.
- [PERM by worksite city](https://permtracker.app/perm-cities): Every worksite city with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016 (DOL's closed-year and current files), with the approval rate, the median certified wage, decisions by year, and the employers, occupations, industries and countries of citizenship behind them. One page per city.
- [PERM by industry](https://permtracker.app/perm-industries): Every industry by the NAICS code the employer entered on the form, with 20 or more PERM decisions since FY2016, titled from the Census Bureau's NAICS lists: approval rate, median wage, top sponsors, jobs, cities and countries of citizenship. One page per six-digit code.
- [PERM by the worker's country of citizenship](https://permtracker.app/perm-countries): Each country's PERM decisions by fiscal year from FY2008, and its sponsors, jobs, cities, industries, education and visa at filing from FY2016. From DOL's old-form files; the form in use since mid-2023 doesn't publish citizenship.
- [The NVC immigrant visa waiting list](https://permtracker.app/nvc-waiting-list): The State Department's yearly count of immigrant visa applicants waiting at the National Visa Center, by family and employment category, reconciled report against report. Consular cases only, families included; adjustments at USCIS are not in it.
- [Immigrant visas issued abroad, by month](https://permtracker.app/visa-issuances): Every immigrant visa State's consulates issued each month since March 2017, by employment and family category, by country of chargeability and by consulate, from State's own tables, each month checked against State's grand total. Consular issuances only: a green card granted inside the US isn't in it.
- [Green card timelines](https://permtracker.app/green-card-timelines): How long the I-140, I-485, work permit and green card took for the people who report them: the PERM dates checked against DOL's record, everything after self-reported and labelled as such.
- [USCIS processing times, the median, by form](https://permtracker.app/uscis-processing-times): The median months USCIS took to decide every form last quarter, from its quarterly performance workbook, beside receipts, completions and pending, and the historical medians back to FY2016. A different number from USCIS's processing-times page, and both are shown. DACA is Form I-821D there; its pending count, and its work permit's, include first-time requests USCIS accepts but doesn't process.
- [The I-485 by USCIS field office](https://permtracker.app/i485-by-field-office): Employment-based I-485 applications received, approved, denied and pending at every USCIS field office and service center per quarter, the busiest offices, and quarters of work at each office's pace. From USCIS's quarterly count; withheld cells stay withheld.
- [Approved I-140s awaiting a visa number](https://permtracker.app/i140-awaiting-visa): USCIS's quarterly count of approved I-140, I-360 and I-526 petitions waiting for a visa number, by preference and country of birth, with the movement since the previous count and I-140 receipts by fiscal year for India and the top five countries.
- [USCIS RFE rates for H-1B, L-1, O-1 and other work visas](https://permtracker.app/uscis-rfe-rates): How often USCIS sent a request for evidence before deciding an I-129 petition, per month and visa (H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, Blanket L, O, P, R-1, TN, H-2A, H-2B) since FY2015, with how many of those were approved, from USCIS's quarterly request-for-evidence files checked against their own totals. USCIS publishes no RFE counts for the I-140 or the I-485.
- [The next visa bulletin](https://permtracker.app/visa-bulletin): What every earlier bulletin for the coming month did, per employment category and country, beside USCIS's count of I-485 applications ahead of each cutoff. Measured from the archive, not predicted, and it rolls forward when the next bulletin lands.
- [Methodology](https://permtracker.app/methodology): Where every figure on this site comes from, how it is computed, and what it cannot tell you.

## Product

- [Home](https://permtracker.app/): What the product does, for the person waiting and the person managing cases
- [About](https://permtracker.app/about): Who runs PERM Tracker (an immigration attorney), since when, and what it is not
- [Press](https://permtracker.app/press): What DOL's records on this site can tell a reporter, how to credit PERM Tracker, and the press contact
- [Reviews](https://permtracker.app/reviews): Every review left by someone outside the team, newest first, with the average rating
- [For attorneys](https://permtracker.app/for-attorneys): The case-management side - every deadline computed per case, reminders, calendar sync
- [FAQ](https://permtracker.app/faq): Questions about PERM and about this site
- [Email preferences](https://permtracker.app/email-preferences): See and stop everything the site emails an address
- [Sign Up](https://permtracker.app/signup): Create a free account
- [Contact](https://permtracker.app/contact): Get in touch

## Content Hub

- [Blog posts](https://permtracker.app/blog): Data notes, explainers and practice notes on PERM, written from the Labor Department's own records.
- [Guides](https://permtracker.app/guides): Plain-English guides to a PERM case, from the case number to the green card, grouped by different stages.
- [Changelog](https://permtracker.app/changelog): Product updates and new features, plus the corrections log: every published claim this site got wrong, with what it said, what was true and what changed.

## Blog posts

- [PERM client status updates without the email load](https://permtracker.app/blog/client-status-updates-without-the-email-load) (updated October 17, 2026): How a firm can let PERM clients read DOL's status for themselves: a free case lookup, an email when DOL moves the case, and a checker for the firm's site.
- [Docketwise alternatives for firms that file PERM](https://permtracker.app/blog/docketwise-alternatives-for-perm) (updated October 17, 2026): What Docketwise and its alternatives say they do for PERM labor certification, with prices read from each vendor's own page on October 16, 2026.
- [Four immigration practice tools compared on price, forms and PERM](https://permtracker.app/blog/docketwise-vs-inszoom-lollylaw-eimmigration) (updated October 17, 2026): Four immigration practice tools compared from their own pages: price, who each is for, the forms, and what each says about PERM, read October 16, 2026.
- [Free immigration case management software in 2026](https://permtracker.app/blog/free-immigration-case-management-software) (updated October 17, 2026): What immigration practice software is free in 2026: trial lengths, nonprofit discounts, the free government lookups, and a free PERM app, read October 16.
- [H-1B and PERM sponsors that filed layoff notices this month](https://permtracker.app/blog/h1b-sponsors-layoff-notices-october-2026) (updated October 25, 2026): Layoff notices filed in October 2026 by employers with H-1B or PERM filings at DOL, as four states published them, beside each employer's DOL record.
- [Immigration law software pricing in 2026, vendor by vendor](https://permtracker.app/blog/immigration-software-pricing-2026) (updated October 17, 2026): Per-user prices for Docketwise, MyCase, Clio, eImmigration, CampLegal, LegistAI, CaseTracker and more, from each vendor's own page on October 16, 2026.
- [OPT fee proposal: what it would charge, and when comments close](https://permtracker.app/blog/opt-fee-proposal-2026) (updated October 17, 2026): DHS has proposed a $70,000 fee for a student's first OPT and $30,000 for later OPT. What the proposal says, who would pay, and why nothing is in force.
- [PERM attorney fees: why the employer has to pay them](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-attorney-fees-employer-must-pay) (updated October 17, 2026): Under 20 C.F.R. § 656.12(b) the employer pays for the labor certification, its attorney's fees included. What that covers and what counts as payment.
- [The PERM queue in mid-October, in five numbers](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-queue-october-2026) (updated October 17, 2026): How fast DOL is deciding PERM cases, where its queue stands, how many cases are on hold and at which employers, and how many new cases arrived in October.
- [DOL's proposed PERM rule: what it covers and where it stands](https://permtracker.app/blog/proposed-perm-rule-rin-1205-ac29) (updated October 17, 2026): What DOL's pending PERM proposal says it will change, where it sits in review as of October 16, 2026, and why nothing changes until a final rule.
- [Rule changes since summer that touch a green card or H-1B case](https://permtracker.app/blog/rule-changes-since-august-2026) (updated October 17, 2026): Every DHS and DOL action since August 2026 that touches a pending green card or H-1B case, marked in force, proposed with its comment deadline, or blocked.
- [What to ask a software vendor about your clients' data](https://permtracker.app/blog/vendor-data-security-questions) (updated October 17, 2026): Questions to put to an immigration software vendor before client files go in: hosting, audit reports, access, exports and breach notice.
- [Data note: the 1,854 PERM cases on hold, and who holds them](https://permtracker.app/blog/data-note-application-on-hold-september-2026) (updated September 8, 2026): The first of a series of short notes on what this site's record shows. September 2026: 1,854 cases at APPLICATION ON HOLD, 1,831 of them one employer's.
- [How PERM wage data gets published](https://permtracker.app/blog/how-perm-wage-data-is-published) (updated September 3, 2026): DOL publishes the wage on decided PERM cases in quarterly files. What the offered wage is, why it's a floor set by the process, and what it leaves out.
- [What an employer's PERM record shows](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-an-employers-perm-record-shows) (updated October 25, 2026): Volume, approval rate, wages and law firms, drawn from DOL's own files. What each figure means, and what none of it says about one individual case.
- [What DOL actually publishes about PERM](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-dol-publishes-about-perm) (updated October 11, 2026): The Department of Labor puts out PERM data in three places: quarterly files, a case status system and a processing times page. What each one leaves out.
- [What a law firm's PERM volume tells you](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-law-firm-volume-tells-you) (updated October 11, 2026): Every PERM filing names the firm that made it. What volume and approval rates in DOL's files can tell you, and what they cannot.
- [What to do while your PERM is pending](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-to-do-while-you-wait) (updated September 26, 2026): What's worth checking while a PERM sits with DOL, how often, what's genuinely out of your hands, and what actually signals a problem.
- [Why PERM cases are denied or audited](https://permtracker.app/blog/why-perm-cases-are-denied) (updated October 25, 2026): The measured denial rates by wage, occupation and what the form declares, what an audit is, how an RFI differs, and why we refuse to blend them.
- [Is your employer still filing PERM? What DOL's live record shows](https://permtracker.app/blog/is-my-company-still-filing-perm) (updated October 17, 2026): How to check whether Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google or any employer is still filing PERM green card cases, from DOL's live record and published files.
- [My PERM got audited. Is that bad?](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-audit-what-it-means) (updated August 28, 2026): An audit is a request for proof, not a decision. What the letter asks for, how it differs from an RFI, and what it costs in time.
- [Which companies sponsor the most green cards?](https://permtracker.app/blog/companies-sponsoring-most-green-cards) (updated September 3, 2026): The employers filing the most PERM cases right now, from DOL's own files. Microsoft leads, but half the top ten isn’t tech at all.
- [PERM salary data: what sponsored jobs actually pay](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-salary-data-by-occupation) (updated September 3, 2026): Median offered wages by occupation from DOL's PERM files: committed figures, not survey estimates. Software Developers at $139k, and the other half.
- [Best immigration case management tools in 2026](https://permtracker.app/blog/best-immigration-case-management-tools) (updated October 17, 2026): The main immigration case management tools in 2026, compared on price, on what each says about PERM, and on the kind of practice each suits.
- [PERM processing times in 2026: what to expect](https://permtracker.app/blog/perm-processing-times-2026) (updated October 6, 2026): How long PERM takes in 2026, from DOL's own published figures: the filing month under review, the average days to a decision, and what adds months.
- [5 PERM audit triggers and how to avoid them](https://permtracker.app/blog/common-perm-audit-triggers) (updated September 3, 2026): Learn the most frequent reasons PERM applications get audited by the DOL and practical strategies to minimize your audit risk.
- [What is PERM labor certification?](https://permtracker.app/blog/what-is-perm-labor-certification) (updated October 16, 2026): The PERM labor certification process end to end: filing requirements, processing times, the pitfalls that trigger audits, and what to check before filing.

## Guides

- [Why DOL's average wait isn't your wait](https://permtracker.app/guides/dol-average-vs-your-wait) (updated October 17, 2026): DOL's average days, the month DOL is working, and your case's own estimate are three different numbers. What each measures and which one fits your case.
- [EAD renewals no longer extend automatically: file early](https://permtracker.app/guides/ead-renewal-no-automatic-extension) (updated October 17, 2026): A renewal filed on or after October 30, 2025 doesn't extend your EAD, and a final rule kept that on October 14, 2026. Who it hits, and when to file.
- [EB-2 India forecasts: how close the guesses have come](https://permtracker.app/guides/eb2-india-forecasts-how-close) (updated October 17, 2026): Nobody publishes EB-2 India's future cutoffs. Where the line stands today, how it has moved, and how far a steady-pace estimate missed on past bulletins.
- [My employer was suspended from PERM: what happens at each stage](https://permtracker.app/guides/employer-suspended-from-perm) (updated October 17, 2026): A PERM suspension, stage by stage: unfiled, on hold, certified, at the I-140 or at the I-485. The live count of held cases, and what DOL hasn't said.
- [ETA 9089 expiration date and the I-140 deadline](https://permtracker.app/guides/eta-9089-expiration-and-i140-deadline) (updated October 17, 2026): A certified PERM expires unless an I-140 is filed by the date DOL prints: 180 calendar days under 20 C.F.R. § 656.30(b)(1). Why sources differ by a day.
- [Can you file PERM after the prevailing wage expires?](https://permtracker.app/guides/file-perm-after-prevailing-wage-expires) (updated October 17, 2026): Yes, when the first recruitment step began inside the determination's validity period. The rule, the two Board decisions, and how to check your dates.
- [Find your LCA without the case number](https://permtracker.app/guides/find-your-lca-without-the-number) (updated October 17, 2026): Your employer filed an H-1B LCA and didn't send the number. How to find it by company name, pending ones included, and what DOL's record shows.
- [Green card sponsors for your job, from DOL's own record](https://permtracker.app/guides/green-card-sponsors-for-your-job) (updated October 18, 2026): Which employers file PERM green card cases for your occupation, from DOL's decided cases, and how to check which of them are still filing today.
- [The H-1B 60-day grace period: in force today, proposed to end](https://permtracker.app/guides/h1b-60-day-grace-period-proposal) (updated October 17, 2026): The up-to-60-day grace period in 8 CFR 214.1(l)(2) still applies. DHS has proposed removing it, with comments due November 10, 2026. What would change.
- [H-1B past six years with a PERM pending: the 365-day rule](https://permtracker.app/guides/h1b-six-year-limit-with-perm-pending) (updated October 17, 2026): A PERM or I-140 filed 365 days earlier allows one-year H-1B extensions past six years. An approved I-140 and a backlogged date allow three. Worked dates.
- [How long PERM recruitment stays valid, and what restarts it](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-long-perm-recruitment-stays-valid) (updated October 17, 2026): PERM recruitment supports a filing from 30 days after the last mandatory step to 180 days after the first, under 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e), on real dates.
- [Can a former employer revoke your I-140? The 180-day line](https://permtracker.app/guides/i140-revoked-before-after-180-days) (updated October 17, 2026): A withdrawal revokes an approved I-140 only inside 180 days. After that it stays approved, and the priority date is kept except for four reasons.
- [The I-485 inventory, month by month: how many are ahead of you](https://permtracker.app/guides/i485-inventory-month-by-month) (updated October 17, 2026): USCIS counts every pending employment-based I-485 by priority date each month. What the inventory counts, what it leaves out, and how to read your place.
- [OPT employers that also file PERM for green cards](https://permtracker.app/guides/opt-to-green-card-employers) (updated October 17, 2026): The biggest employers of students on OPT, set beside their PERM green card filings in DOL's record, and how to check one before you accept an offer.
- [The PERM audit file: what goes in it and how long to keep it](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-audit-file-index) (updated October 17, 2026): What a PERM audit file holds, why 20 C.F.R. § 656.10(f) keeps it five years, the 30-day audit clock, and an index to copy into every case.
- [Answering a PERM audit: the 30-day clock and what to send](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-audit-response) (updated October 17, 2026): A PERM audit letter gives an employer 30 days from its date under 20 C.F.R. § 656.20, plus one extension of up to 30. What to send and what lateness costs.
- [Business necessity in PERM: when it's needed and how DOL tests it](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-business-necessity) (updated October 17, 2026): When a PERM job requirement needs business necessity under 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(h), the two-part test, and the places the rule checks a requirement.
- [PERM certified: what happens next, and the date that matters](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-certified-what-next) (updated October 17, 2026): Your PERM was certified. The I-140 deadline DOL printed, what your priority date is, what the visa bulletin decides, and what to ask the attorney.
- [PERM employer questionnaire: what to ask before the wage request](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-employer-questionnaire) (updated October 17, 2026): What to collect from a PERM employer before the wage request: duties, requirements, worksite, wage, recruitment habits and layoffs, with a questionnaire.
- [The PERM filing window, worked on real dates](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-filing-window-worked-example) (updated October 17, 2026): How to work out a PERM filing window from your recruitment dates: the day it opens, the day it closes, and what changes if recruitment began before a PWD.
- [The PERM layoff rule for employers: what counts and what to do](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-layoff-rule-for-employers) (updated October 25, 2026): What counts as a layoff under 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(k), the six months before filing, which laid-off workers to notify and consider, and what to keep.
- [PERM notice of filing: the rules, the dates and a sample notice](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-notice-of-filing-sample) (updated October 17, 2026): What 20 C.F.R. § 656.10(d) asks of a PERM notice of filing: 10 business days, the contents, in-house media and the timing, with a sample notice to adapt.
- [PERM recruitment failed: what it means for your H-1B clock](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-recruitment-failed-h1b-clock) (updated October 17, 2026): A failed labor market test means a qualified U.S. worker applied, so no PERM is filed from that recruitment. What happens next, and the H-1B arithmetic.
- [PERM recruitment report: what DOL requires, with a sample](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-recruitment-report-sample) (updated October 17, 2026): What 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(g)(1) requires in a PERM recruitment report, a sample report to adapt with the rule beside each part, and a checklist.
- [Sunday ads and additional recruitment steps for PERM](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-sunday-ads-additional-recruitment-steps) (updated October 17, 2026): The job order, the two Sunday ads and the three additional steps 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) requires for a professional PERM, with the timing rule for each.
- [Your priority date is current but your PERM isn't approved yet](https://permtracker.app/guides/priority-date-current-perm-pending) (updated October 17, 2026): A current visa bulletin date can't be used until the PERM is certified and the I-140 is filed. What can be filed now, what can't, and how to get ready.
- [Your priority date retrogressed after you filed: what happens now](https://permtracker.app/guides/priority-date-retrogressed-after-filing) (updated October 17, 2026): The visa bulletin moved back after your I-485 went in. The application stays pending, and your work permit and travel document continue. What changes.
- [Is your salary high enough for PERM or H-1B? The wage levels](https://permtracker.app/guides/salary-high-enough-perm-h1b) (updated October 17, 2026): DOL sets four prevailing wage levels for every job and area. What each level is, how to read your offer against them, and what DOL has proposed to change.
- [Special handling for university teachers: the 18-month clock](https://permtracker.app/guides/special-handling-university-teachers) (updated October 17, 2026): Under 20 C.F.R. § 656.18, a college or university can use its own competitive search for a teacher. What to document and the 18-month limit.
- [USCIS silent updates: what they are and what they mean](https://permtracker.app/guides/uscis-silent-updates) (updated October 17, 2026): What a USCIS silent update is, where it shows up, what USCIS says can cause one, and why no tracker can read the codes from a receipt number.
- [When does the visa bulletin come out?](https://permtracker.app/guides/when-does-the-visa-bulletin-come-out) (updated October 17, 2026): The State Department announces no release date for the visa bulletin. When past bulletins were out, from the archive's records, and what USCIS does next.
- [H-2A case status: what each status means and when DOL decides](https://permtracker.app/guides/h2a-case-status-and-timing) (updated October 7, 2026): What an H-300 or JO-A-300 status means, the 30-day rule for DOL's decision, and how close DOL actually runs to it, measured from its own files.
- [H-2B and CW-1 case status: what it means and when DOL decides](https://permtracker.app/guides/h2b-and-cw1-case-status-and-timing) (updated October 7, 2026): What an H-400, C-500, P-400 or P-500 status means, when DOL usually decides, and the two places DOL's live status says less than its own files.
- [EB-3 Other Workers: the separate line inside EB-3](https://permtracker.app/guides/eb3-other-workers) (updated September 26, 2026): Other Workers is EB-3 for jobs needing under two years of training. It has its own cutoff, a 10,000 cap, and 57,743 approved petitions waiting in Jun 2026.
- [Approved I-140, no visa number: the EB-2 India wait](https://permtracker.app/guides/approved-i140-no-visa-number-eb2-india) (updated September 26, 2026): What no visa number means, how many approved EB-2 India petitions are waiting (356,360 as of Jun 2026), and why no years figure is a date.
- [EAD and advance parole timelines while an I-485 is pending](https://permtracker.app/guides/ead-and-advance-parole-timelines) (updated October 16, 2026): How long USCIS is taking on the I-765 work permit and I-131 advance parole document, from its quarterly file, and what pending means for work and travel.
- [Which field office is fastest for an employment-based I-485](https://permtracker.app/guides/fastest-field-office-eb-i485) (updated September 22, 2026): USCIS's quarterly file lists employment-based I-485s received, approved, denied and pending per field office. Which hold the least backlog per approval.
- [I-485 vs I-485J: what Supplement J is](https://permtracker.app/guides/i485-vs-i485j-supplement-j) (updated September 22, 2026): Supplement J is the job-offer confirmation or portability request that rides on an employment-based I-485. What a 485J approval means, and what it doesn't.
- [Median vs 80%: the two USCIS processing times](https://permtracker.app/guides/uscis-processing-times-median-vs-80-percent) (updated September 26, 2026): USCIS publishes two processing times for one form: a quarterly-file median and the time to finish 80% of cases. Why they differ and which one to read.
- [How to read a USCIS receipt number](https://permtracker.app/guides/uscis-receipt-number) (updated September 22, 2026): What the 13 characters on a USCIS notice mean, which three-letter prefixes USCIS names, where the number sits on Form I-797, and what it can't tell you.
- [What Emma told you, and which form it meant](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-emma-told-you) (updated September 22, 2026): USCIS's virtual assistant and its live agents quote dates without naming forms. How to work out which of your receipt numbers an approval belonged to.
- [EB-2 vs EB-3 on a PERM: what sets the category](https://permtracker.app/guides/eb2-vs-eb3-perm) (updated October 17, 2026): The same PERM can lead to an EB-2 or an EB-3 I-140, and the job's requirements decide which. Both India lines this month, and what a downgrade needs.
- [Employer layoffs and your PERM: the rules that actually apply](https://permtracker.app/guides/employer-layoffs-and-your-perm) (updated October 25, 2026): Your sponsor announced layoffs. What applies at each stage: the six-month layoff rule, a pending case, the I-140's 180 days, the H-1B grace period.
- [My employer stopped filing PERMs: how to read the record](https://permtracker.app/guides/employer-stopped-filing-perms) (updated September 8, 2026): The sponsor's PERM filings dried up. How to read an employer's record, the ordinary reasons a filer goes quiet, and what it means for a case already filed.
- [The I-693 medical exam: when, who, and how long it lasts](https://permtracker.app/guides/i693-medical-exam) (updated September 8, 2026): The immigration medical exam every adjustment applicant needs: who can do it, when, the 2023 validity rule, and where USCIS lists civil surgeons.
- [Appealing a PERM denial: reconsideration and BALCA review](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-appeal-reconsideration-balca) (updated October 17, 2026): The three appeal steps on a denied PERM: reconsideration, the request for review and BALCA, their 30-day windows, and how each has ended so far.
- [PERM denied: what to do in the first 30 days](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-denied-what-happens-next) (updated October 17, 2026): A PERM denial starts two 30-day windows the day it's issued. What to do first, reconsideration or BALCA review or a refile, and what each one can use.
- [The PERM to green card document checklist, stage by stage](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-document-checklist) (updated September 8, 2026): Every document the employer and the worker will be asked for, from the wage request to the I-485, with the rule behind each and which are kept, not filed.
- [PERM status NORD issued: what is known, and what isn't](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-nord-issued-meaning) (updated September 8, 2026): NORD ISSUED is one of the rarest PERM statuses and DOL publishes no definition of it. What the record shows about the cases carrying it, and what to do.
- [PERM status says RFI issued: what it means and what to do](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-rfi-issued-what-to-do) (updated October 21, 2026): Your PERM moved to RFI ISSUED. What DOL is asking for, where the deadline comes from, what the measured outcomes look like, and what you can do about it.
- [PERM vs NIW: which route to an EB-2 green card](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-vs-niw) (updated September 8, 2026): A PERM needs an employer, recruitment and a prevailing wage. A national interest waiver needs none of them and a harder argument. What each route requires.
- [Was my PERM received? How to check without a receipt](https://permtracker.app/guides/check-perm-received-without-receipt) (updated October 11, 2026): No receipt, no case number, nobody answering. How to tell whether DOL has your PERM from its own index and the employer search, and what each result means.
- [How accurate are PERM approval estimates?](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-accurate-are-perm-estimates) (updated October 11, 2026): PERM estimators disagree by months on the same case. What an estimate can and can't know, and how close ours lands on real DOL decisions.
- [Compute every PERM deadline from one date](https://permtracker.app/guides/compute-every-perm-deadline) (updated October 17, 2026): Enter the prevailing wage determination date and your recruitment dates to get every dependent PERM deadline, including the cap hand arithmetic misses.
- [Explore PERM wages by occupation and state](https://permtracker.app/guides/explore-perm-wages) (updated September 3, 2026): The offered wage on every certified PERM case, filtered by occupation, state and year, and why a single median will mislead you.
- [Find a case number you were never given](https://permtracker.app/guides/find-a-dol-case-number-by-employer) (updated September 26, 2026): Search the employer, the job title and the filing month across PERM, wage requests and H-1B LCAs, and get the DOL case number nobody sent you.
- [How DOL sets a prevailing wage](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-dol-sets-a-prevailing-wage) (updated October 11, 2026): The OEWS survey, wage levels 1 to 4, the occupation code and the area, and how long a determination lasts. What actually sets the number.
- [How DOL works through the PERM queue](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-the-perm-queue-works) (updated October 17, 2026): PERM cases are decided roughly in filing-month order. What DOL's published frontier means, how much the employer initial is worth, and where it stops.
- [How the visa bulletin works](https://permtracker.app/guides/how-the-visa-bulletin-works) (updated October 21, 2026): Priority dates, final action versus dates for filing, retrogression, and what C and U mean. Per-country limits in plain terms, and what it cannot say.
- [How to look up an immigration law firm's PERM record](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-law-firm) (updated September 26, 2026): Search any firm that files PERM cases, read its volume and approval rate honestly, and see the one thing this record cannot tell you.
- [Look up a PERM case by its number](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-perm-case-by-number) (updated September 26, 2026): Paste a G- or A- case number and get DOL's current status, the queue in front of it, an estimate with its real error, and an email when it moves.
- [How to look up a sponsoring employer's PERM record](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-a-sponsor) (updated October 11, 2026): Search a sponsor by name, read what the filings and approval rate actually mean, and see the wage requests and LCAs filed before the PERM.
- [How to look up an H-1B LCA by case number](https://permtracker.app/guides/look-up-an-lca-by-number) (updated October 11, 2026): Paste an I-200 or I-203 number and see what DOL says about a labor condition application, pending ones included, plus how to find it by employer.
- [What does PERM application on hold mean?](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-application-on-hold-meaning) (updated October 11, 2026): DOL changed your PERM status to Application On Hold and explained nothing. What the status means, how many cases sit in it, and what happens next.
- [PERM case number format: what each part means](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-case-number-format) (updated September 7, 2026): What a DOL case number is made of, why some start with G and others with A or P, and what the digits in the middle actually encode.
- [Read the denial and audit rates without over-reading them](https://permtracker.app/guides/read-the-denial-and-audit-rates) (updated October 25, 2026): How to read the measured PERM denial rates and the review stage counts here, what the cohort sizes mean, and what neither one can tell you.
- [How to read your priority date history](https://permtracker.app/guides/read-your-priority-date-history) (updated October 21, 2026): Put an employment-based priority date against every visa bulletin since 2014, see which way the cutoff moved, and get an email when it moves.
- [Which data page answers which question](https://permtracker.app/guides/the-data-pages-and-what-each-answers) (updated September 26, 2026): A map of the data pages on this site, one line each, with an honest note on what the whole set can't tell you.
- [The PERM deadlines that actually matter](https://permtracker.app/guides/the-perm-deadlines-that-matter) (updated October 16, 2026): Four dates fix a PERM case: the wage determination expiry, the 30 to 180 day recruitment window, the quiet period, and the 180 days after certification.
- [How to track a prevailing wage request by case number](https://permtracker.app/guides/track-a-prevailing-wage-request) (updated October 21, 2026): Paste a P- number and see the Department of Labor's current status for a prevailing wage request, pending ones included, plus the wage once it's issued.
- [Track a case without making an account](https://permtracker.app/guides/tracking-a-case-without-an-account) (updated September 26, 2026): Everything here works with no sign-in: the lookup for all three DOL programs, the searches, the data pages, and the email alerts.
- [Waiting on an employer-sponsored green card](https://permtracker.app/guides/waiting-on-your-green-card) (updated September 26, 2026): The whole employment green card from the applicant's side: what each federal filing is, how long it takes now, and how to check yours yourself.
- [What an H-1B labor condition application is](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-an-lca-is) (updated September 3, 2026): The ETA-9035, what the employer attests to, the seven business day target, and why certified does not mean the H-1B is approved.
- [What each PERM case status means](https://permtracker.app/guides/what-perm-case-statuses-mean) (updated September 26, 2026): DOL shows a PERM case one line of capitals and explains none of it. Analyst review, RFI, audit, certified, denied and the rest, and what follows each.
- [See where your filing month sits](https://permtracker.app/guides/where-your-filing-month-sits) (updated October 17, 2026): Three pages answer three different questions about the PERM queue: where DOL is working, how fast it moves, and what it decided today.
- [How to find your PERM, PWD or LCA case number](https://permtracker.app/guides/find-your-dol-case-number) (updated September 3, 2026): Your lawyer filed it and you don't have the number. What each DOL prefix means, and how to find your PERM, PWD or LCA case number from the employer's name.
- [How to check your PERM case status (yes, you can do it yourself)](https://permtracker.app/guides/check-perm-case-status) (updated October 17, 2026): You don't need a law firm login to see where a PERM case stands. Where to find your case number, what each DOL status means, and what it can't show you.
- [Changing jobs after an I-140 approval: three dates decide it](https://permtracker.app/guides/three-180-day-clocks) (updated October 17, 2026): Can you change jobs once the I-140 is approved? Three 180-day dates decide what you keep: the certification, the I-140 approval, and the I-485 receipt.
- [How to read the PERM data](https://permtracker.app/guides/reading-the-perm-data) (updated September 26, 2026): A working guide to the live DOL figures, the data pages and the calculators: what each number means, where it comes from, and which answers your question.
- [The ultimate PERM guide for 2026](https://permtracker.app/guides/ultimate-perm-guide-2026) (updated October 16, 2026): PERM labor certification end to end: what happens at each of the five stages, how long each takes, what draws an audit, and the deadlines that end a case.
- [Getting started with PERM Tracker](https://permtracker.app/guides/getting-started) (updated October 21, 2026): PERM Tracker has two halves: look up any PERM, PWD or LCA case number with no account, or sign in to manage a caseload. This guide covers both.
- [How to track every PERM deadline](https://permtracker.app/guides/tracking-perm-deadlines) (updated October 16, 2026): Use PERM Tracker's deadline engine to stay on top of every critical date in your PERM cases, from PWD expiration to I-140 filing windows.
- [Manual vs automated PERM tracking](https://permtracker.app/guides/manual-vs-automated-tracking) (updated October 1, 2026): An honest comparison of spreadsheet-based manual tracking versus purpose-built PERM tracking tools. Pros, cons, and when each approach makes sense.
- [The complete 2026 PERM filing guide](https://permtracker.app/guides/complete-perm-filing-guide) (updated October 16, 2026): A comprehensive, step-by-step reference guide for the entire PERM labor certification process, from prevailing wage through I-140 filing.
- [Setting up recruitment tracking](https://permtracker.app/guides/recruitment-tracking) (updated August 22, 2026): How to track PERM recruitment activities, manage checklists, and stay compliant using PERM Tracker's built-in recruitment tools.
- [PERM recruitment requirements checklist](https://permtracker.app/guides/perm-recruitment-checklist) (updated October 16, 2026): Every PERM recruitment requirement under 20 CFR 656.17, with the timing math that sets when each step is actually due and what a DOL audit asks for.

## Changelog

- [Corrections](https://permtracker.app/changelog/corrections) (updated October 16, 2026): Every time this site published something wrong about its data, its process or the rules: what it said, what was true, and what changed.
- [Alerts within minutes, measured estimates, and H-1B rankings](https://permtracker.app/changelog/alerts-in-minutes-and-measured-estimates) (updated October 9, 2026): Watched cases checked every 5 minutes, estimate ranges measured nightly, a date for wage requests and RFIs, and the top H-1B employers by year and state.
- [One page per employer, across every program](https://permtracker.app/changelog/one-page-per-employer) (updated October 6, 2026): Employer pages join PERM, H-1B, wage requests and seasonal visas under one name, plus a sponsor finder and occupation and city pages with federal data.
- [Open data, a free API, and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1](https://permtracker.app/changelog/open-data-api-and-seasonal-visas) (updated October 3, 2026): Early October: two datasets under CC BY, a free API and MCP server, every H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 case DOL publishes, and records reaching back to 2005.
- [USCIS's own numbers, following an employer, and one email a day](https://permtracker.app/changelog/uscis-data-and-following-employers) (updated September 26, 2026): Late September: USCIS's quarterly figures by form and office, alerts when DOL moves an employer's cases, a graded scorecard, and guides in five languages.
- [The next bulletin, layoff notices, wage levels and the rules as published](https://permtracker.app/changelog/september-bulletin-layoffs-and-rules) (updated September 16, 2026): Early September: what each bulletin month has done before, WARN notices from four states, DOL's four wage levels, and federal rules with their dates.
- [Check any case number, and every dataset from its source](https://permtracker.app/changelog/case-status-and-first-party-data) (updated August 28, 2026): Per-case DOL status with email alerts, the review-stage funnel, daily decision activity, a pending queue census, and 84 months of visa bulletin history.
- [Every case, every sponsor, and pages that say something](https://permtracker.app/changelog/every-case-every-sponsor) (updated August 25, 2026): Case-level search arrives, the entity pages go from 250 rows to all 16,210, and every chart gets a table view and filters worth using.
- [Law firms, denial rates, and the whole wage ladder](https://permtracker.app/changelog/law-firms-and-denial-rates) (updated August 24, 2026): Three additions from the same DOL files: who files the most PERM cases, what gets denied, and wages at five percentiles instead of one.
- [Live DOL data, calculators and a faster site](https://permtracker.app/changelog/live-data-and-two-doors) (updated August 24, 2026): The public data surface arrives: live queue position, six calculators, a methodology page, and one navigation for all of it. Plus a faster first load.
- [The whole field, three ways: states, wages and sponsors](https://permtracker.app/changelog/the-whole-field-three-ways) (updated August 24, 2026): Three new pages cut DOL's disclosure files by place, pay and sponsor: an interactive state map, wages by occupation, and the biggest sponsors.
- [March 2026: a fuller timeline, a steadier assistant and smaller fixes](https://permtracker.app/changelog/march-2026-timeline-and-ux) (updated August 22, 2026): The timeline view now shows every PERM date range and milestone at a glance, with a more reliable AI chat and many smaller fixes.
- [January 2026: a visual refresh and new features](https://permtracker.app/changelog/january-2026-visual-refresh) (updated August 22, 2026): A visual overhaul with drawn illustrations, new animations and a better layout on phones, plus new case-management features.
- [Launch: PERM Tracker 2.0](https://permtracker.app/changelog/launch-perm-tracker-2) (updated August 22, 2026): Introducing PERM Tracker 2.0, a complete rebuild with daily case tracking, automated deadlines, recruitment management, and an AI assistant.

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