I was just down in Washington for AILA’s Spring Seminar, where government officials speak about the current state of affairs in their agencies. The DOL’s representatives released their current “processing time” report for labor certification applications filed through the PERM system, and while the results aren’t pretty, at least we know which cases are outside the Department’s “normal” processing time.
The Department of Labor representatives reported that cases with initial filing dates during July 2008 are currently being worked on, and approved if there is no audit.
For cases in which an audit request was sent (including many where audit requests were mailed in September to November of 2007), cases with initial filing dates in August of 2007 are being worked on.
For cases requesting reconsideration or appeal, initial filing dates of June 2007 are being worked on.
Note that the Department’s report cannot be used to predict when a case filed today will be decided, it can only be used to see where they are in reducing their new backlog.
Tags: labor certification, PERM
It is interesting that while there was a lot of hue and cry about supervised recruitment, AILA is silent when DOL announces such dates which obviously shows lack of progress.
It took DOL so much time to move to September ‘07. And all this because of the FDBL nonsense. Meanwhile newly audited cases continue to trickle in – raising the question – what is the FIFO DOL talks about. This looks more like First In Last Out….