Announcements
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) released multiple updates to the FLAG system on August 16th providing an improved user experience. These new functions provide users with the ability to receive and respond to notifications quickly through a new messaging center, reassign cases more...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) will implement the new Form ETA-9141, Application for Prevailing Wage Determination, beginning May 3, 2021. As a result, any initiated cases not submitted prior to 6:00 a.m. ET on May 3, 2021 will be deleted and a new application using the new Form...
The Office of Management and Budget approved the Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s (OFLC) revisions to the Form ETA-9141, corresponding appendix, and instructions. The revisions will better align information collection requirements with the Department’s regulations, provide greater clarity to...
On February 12, 2021, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), in collaboration with the Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer, released the following enhancements and new features in the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) System to assist employers or their authorized...
January 22, 2021. OFLC Announces Plan for Reissuing Certain Prevailing Wage Determinations Issued under the Department’s Interim Final Rule of October 8, 2020; Compliance with the District Court’s Modified Order
On January 20, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Purdue...
During the three-day filing window of the H-2B peak filing season, employers filed 5,403 applications in the Foreign Labor Application Gateway System requesting more than 96,888 worker positions with an April 1, 2021, or later, work start date.
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC)...
During the first two days of the H-2B peak filing season, employers filed 5,148 applications in the Foreign Labor Application Gateway System requesting more than 92,803 worker positions with an April 1, 2021, or later, work start date.
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) will...
During the first 24 hours of the H-2B peak filing season, employers filed 4,705 applications in the Foreign Labor Application Gateway System requesting more than 84,028 worker positions with an April 1, 2021, or later, work start date.
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) will...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification has completed the procedures to randomly assign all H-2B applications submitted during the initial three-day filing window, July 3-5, 2020, requesting an October 1, 2020, work start date for the first half of the Fiscal Year 2021 H-2B statutory visa cap.
...On July 1, 2020, FLAG implemented the July 2020 OES wages. As a result, applications on the Form ETA-9035 with prevailing wages from the July 2019 OES wage year must be updated to the July 2020 OES wages prior to submission. Upon submission, an initiated Form ETA-9035 with July 2019 OES wages...