Category: DOL

On June 24, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced $78,410,000 in grant funds through the National Farmworker Jobs Program.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association recently queried the Department of Labor about difficulties in using the iCERT system, which is causing certain labor condition application cases in “initiated” status not to display online. A common reported problem is receiving an inappropriate warning when entering a prevailing wage source date. The DOL said it is working… Read More

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 10, 2010, that it will not extend the period in which it temporarily accepted H-1B petitions filed with uncertified labor condition applications (LCAs). USCIS explained that due to processing delays associated with the Department of Labor’s (DOL) “iCERT” online filing system, USCIS had responded to requests… Read More

The Department of Labor announced (PDF) on March 12, 2010, a technical change to the filing location address for prevailing wage determination requests in the H-1B, H-1B1 (Chile/Singapore), H-1C, H-2B, E-3 (Australia), and permanent labor certification programs, as well as for prevailing wage determination requests for use in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

After publication of the H-2A final rule addressing temporary agricultural employment in the U.S., the Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification has reopened its H-2A regulations e-mailbox for public inquiries. General queries regarding the H-2A program should be e-mailed to H-2A.Regulations@dol.gov. Case-specific inquiries should be e-mailed to the Chicago National Processing Center e-mailbox,… Read More