PERM processing times: DOL analyst review holds at January 2026
As of October 21, 2026, DOL PERM analyst review is working on January 2026 filings, audit review on December 2025, and reconsideration on May 2026. The average PERM decision took 336 days in August 2026, and no queue moved since the prior release.
Current DOL queues
Each queue shows the filing month of the cases DOL is working on now. Analyst review is handling January 2026 filings, audit review is at December 2025, and reconsideration requests are at May 2026. None of these queues moved since the October 5, 2026 release.
Decision time and prevailing wage
DOL reported an average PERM decision time of 336 days for decisions in August 2026, unchanged from the prior release. For PERM prevailing wage requests, DOL is processing June 2026 filings as of September 30, 2026. The pending count held at 49,034.
Source: DOL FLAG processing times. PermTimes writes these updates automatically from public government data and publishes them only when every number matches the source.
Information, not legal advice.