Immigration News  |
| Changes in immigration that impact your life. |
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| Staffing company charged with violating H-1B program |
| March 25, 2008 |
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| An investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division found that 156 H-1B guest workers from the Philippines, brought into the U.S. by Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. (APMI) to be employed primarily as physical therapists in hospitals and other medical facilities in the New York metropolitan area, are owed almost $3 million in back wages. |
| DOL ETA Announces Planned Changes in Non-Electronic Filing Locations |
| March 10, 2008 |
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| The DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) recently announced administrative changes in the locations where future non-electronic applications must be filed under the permanent foreign labor certification program and temporary foreign labor certification programs administered by the ETA’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC). The Atlanta National Processing Center (NPC) will receive all applications for permanent labor certification under the Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) System, and the Chicago NPC will receive all applications for temporary labor certification under the programs as identified below. These new addresses will be effective June 1, 2008 and starting June 16, 2008 applications filed at a wrong location will be returned to the applicant. |
| Backlog Eliminated in Permanent Labor Certification Program |
| October 02, 2007 |
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| The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that the permanent foreign labor certification program's backlog has been eliminated, with nearly 99 percent of cases completed and the remainder awaiting responses from employers. For almost three years, more than 300 workers in two processing centers reviewed approximately 363,000 pending labor applications, a backlog created as a result of legislative changes in 1997 and 2000. |
| DOL revises PERM FAQ; Clarifies position on multiple filing of LCAs |
| December 21, 2005 |
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| U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has posted its revised response addressing the issue whether it is permissible for an employer to have more than one labor certification application (LCA) actively in process for the same alien for the same job opportunity at any given time. |
| DOL amends PERM FAQ; Removes response on multiple filing of LCAs |
| August 25, 2005 |
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| The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) removed its response related to multiple filing of LCAs from its FAQ, retracting its earlier response that under PERM an employer cannot have more than one LCA in process for the same alien at any given time. |
| DOL answers more questions on PERM |
| August 11, 2005 |
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| The U.S. Department of Labor has posted more FAQs on its website addressing situations such as multiple applications for the same alien, withdrawal of a PERM application if the employer has difficulty withdrawing electronically, how to make corrections in a filed application, and explaining the status indicators that appear on the DOL website. |
| DOL issues Prevailing Wage determination guidance |
| March 09, 2005 |
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| The guidance provides a step-by-step procedure for selecting the appropriate wage level for prevailing wage purposes and is designed to ensure consistency in the prevailing wage determination process. |
| DOL announces mailing addresses for PERM applications |
| February 09, 2005 |
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| The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a notice to announce the mailing addresses for employers that choose to file applications by mail under the new permanent foreign labor certification program (PERM). |
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