PERM PROCESS RESUMES

By CROW -

In What if a federal agency shut down and no one noticed? Strange as it seems, that is exactly what happened with the Department of Labor for almost nine months. The DOL had an issue with a contract for workers to staff their Atlanta PERM processing center and as a result, had virtually no staff for almost nine months. The curious thing is that no one really noticed that the lights were out. What does that say about DOL efficiency? They shut down for most of a year and no one really noticed because they are so slow anyway.

With their contractor problem resolved, at least for the present, they have resumed processing PERM cases. As of March 31, 2009, the DOL reported the following processing backlogs:

Final reviews:  cases filed in August, 2008
Audits:  audit files submitted in September, 2007
Appeals: appeals filed in June 2007

The DOL's new iCert Portal is now scheduled to go on-line September 1, 2009 - assuming there are no further delays. We do not yet have any idea as to how, if at all, this new software will impact PERM processing.

We are now seeing a steady stream of approvals coming into our office. Hopefully, this trend will continue until they are once again current with their processing.

Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 14, 2009 at 9:28 PM

    can somebody tell how long it will take to reply for audit cases. we filed in 2007 nov and we had in audit in 2008 we already submitted documents for audit but we are still waiting for our labor.. we dont know how long they will take to review our case why they are taking so long cos our dis status my wife is suffering she cant work.. and she is so frustrated dat now we are waiting whn all this things will get over n we will have our eads.. somebody have information regarding this perm.. pls post ur comment

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