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01/14/2004: Congress to Reconvene on 01/20/04 and Senate to Act on DOL 2004 Appropriation Bill on 01/20/2004
· The 2004 appropriation bill that contains the DOL has yet to be enacted into law by the Congress. Congress was adjourned and is scheduled to reconvene on January 20, 2004. When the Senate returns, it is scheduled to act on the Senate closure vote to end conference report the first day. As we reported earlier, the DOL's PERM program and backlog reduction centers initiatives depend on the 2004 appropriation for the Department. Please stay tuned for the development of the appropriation bills.
 
Ginnu,

Does that mean that DOL is not able to publish PERM regulations because Congress and Senate didn't approve it yet?

logicators
 
Update..........

Senate Approved Omnibus Budget Appropriation Bill and On its Way to President for Signature

The Senate "today" approved the budget appropriation bill which the immigrant community has a stake in with reference to the timeline of the PERM new labor certification launch. The President is expected to sign the bill quickly. The availability of the appropriation will allow the Department of Labor initiate rule making process of the PERM regulation. Once the rule is forwarded to OMB for their review from 30 days to 90 days, the DOL will be able to publish the PERM regulation with the 120-day lead time. The employers will be able to use this 120-day lead time to engage in the recruitment campaign following the standards and requirements for recruiment under the PERM regulation, and will be able to file the applications as soon as the DOL start accepting the PERM applications after 120 days of publishing of the rule. At that point, the DOL will cease to taking any new cases of the current labor certification application including RIR or regular cases.

For the budget news, please click here.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0104/012204cdpm1.htm
 
Update:

01/24/2004: President Signed Into Law Budget Appropriation Bill

The President signed the Omnibus Appropriation Act bill yesterday, which includes the funding for the U.S. Department of Labor. Now the Foreign Labor Certification Division of ETA, U.S. Department of Labor should be ready to initiate forwarding the PERM rule to the OMB for review.


Source: http://www.immigration-law.com/
 
Hi usnycus

is the only for the PREM program or it will include the backlog center budget too ? and would you have any news about those centers and when they will be operating ?

thanks in advance
 
Where can I find the proposed PERM regulation?

While everybody is anxious about when PERM will take effect, what are the differences between RIR and PERM for new filers, besides response time from DOL?

I'd appreciate it if anyone can point me to the substance of the PERM regulation.
 
PERM Regulation

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor is proposing to amend its regulations governing the filing and processing of labor certification applications for the permanent employment of aliens in the United States to implement a new system for filing and processing such applications. The proposed rule would also amend the regulations governing the employer's wage obligation under the H-1B program. The new system would require
employers to conduct recruitment before filing their applications
directly with an ETA application processing center on application forms designed for automated screening and processing. State Workforce Agencies (SWA's) would provide prevailing wage determinations to employers. Employers would be required to place a job order with the SWA which would be processed the same as any other job order placed by employers. SWA's would no longer be the intake point for submission of applications and would not be involved in processing the applications as they are now in the present system. The combination of prefiling
recruitment, automated processing of applications, and elimination of the role of the SWA's in the processing of applications will yield a large reduction in the average time needed to process labor certification applications and are expected to eliminate the need to periodically institute special, resource intensive efforts to reduce backlogs which have been a recurring problem.

For details: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=02-10570-filed
 
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