DOL processing times: PERM and prevailing wage
The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification publishes processing times for PERM and prevailing wage requests about once a month. The table shows each queue's current month and how it changed since DOL's previous update.
| DOL queue | Working on cases filed in | Last update |
|---|---|---|
| PERM analyst review | January 2026 | January 2026 |
| PERM audit review | December 2025 | December 2025 |
| Reconsideration requests | May 2026 | May 2026 |
| Prevailing wage (PERM) | June 2026 | June 2026 |
| Average days to decide (August 2026) | 303 | 336 |
How to read these numbers
Each month is the filing month of the cases DOL is working on now. Earlier cases may still be finishing, so a case filed slightly before the month shown can still be pending. The average-days figure covers PERM cases decided in the most recent full month.
DOL updates PERM and prevailing wage times at the end of the first work week of each month. PermTimes stores every update, so the comparison column shows how far each queue moved.
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