How to check your PERM status, step by step
- Find your filing date and case number. Your employer or attorney received a confirmation when the ETA Form 9089 was filed; the case number looks like G-100-XXXXX-XXXXXX. The filing date is what determines your place in line.
- See which filing month the DOL is working on. The live dashboard shows the current processing frontier — right now the DOL is adjudicating November 2025 filings and is about 56% of the way through that month.
- Compare your filing date to the frontier. Cases are processed roughly in filing-month order (how DOL ordering works), so the gap between your month and the frontier is your queue position.
- Get a date estimate. The estimate tool projects your decision window from your filing date or case number using the DOL’s measured pace.
- Watch your specific case. Case Watch monitors your case number and emails you when the official DOL status changes, so you don’t have to keep asking your employer.
Who can see the official status
The DOL’s FLAG system only shows PERM case status to the account that filed it — the employer or the law firm. As the beneficiary, you are not a party to the application, so there is no login for you. Most applicants get updates in one of three ways: periodic checks by their attorney, HR updates, or a tracking service like ImmiLane’s Case Watch that watches the public DOL data for their case number.
Wondering what a status like “Analyst Review” actually means? See what each PERM case status means.