The first thing to do when applying for an employment-based immigrant visa for a foreign national worker is to complete the "Program Electronic Review Management" process. The DOL states that the average time to process a PERM application is nine months. We estimate that the PERM procedure will take at least nine months to complete in 2023, as it did in many cases in 2022.
@https://lifestyleug.com/current-perm-processing-time/