Updates from Department of Labor

The Department of Labor (”DOL”) has provided some updates on their operations and processing during the annual AILA conference.

DOL Priorities

DOL is working on (1) increasing the amount of supervised recruitment from the Atlanta National Processing Center by October 1, 2009; (2) centralizing the processing of all prevailing wage determinations; and (3) centralizing all help desk functions in the national Office of Foreign Labor certifications in Washington, DC by January 1, 2010.

PERM under iCERT Portal Delayed

The PERM section of the new iCert portal will take longer to complete than anticipated and will not be deployed until after September 2009.  Exact deployment date could not be provided.

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