General Announcements
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 continue...
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 continue...
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.
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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...
On April 2, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reinstated all forms and instructions associated with the CW-1 Transitional Worker program in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands through October 31, 2021.
Simultaneously, OMB also approved non-substantive changes to the forms...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is making this public service announcement to alert employers and other interested stakeholders that the publishing of application processing times has been transitioned to the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system website. Stakeholders will...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has released a comprehensive set of public disclosure data for the first half of fiscal year 2020 drawn from employer applications requesting prevailing wage determinations and labor certifications for the PERM, H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, H-2A, H-2B, CW-1, and...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has published an updated list of the names of foreign labor recruiters for the H-2B program as required by 20 CFR 655.9(c).
The list contains the name and location of persons or entities identified on Appendix C of the Form ETA-9142B that were hired...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is making this public service announcement to alert employers and other interested stakeholders that the legacy iCERT System will be fully decommissioned on May 1, 2020.
As part of the Department's technology modernization initiative, the Foreign...
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is making this public service announcement to alert employers and other interested stakeholders that the iCERT System Labor Certification Registry, which provides public access to labor certification decisions in the PERM, LCA, H-2A, and H-2B visa...