Lost Labor Paperwork - How many days it takes to get duplicate ?

[SPA]

My Labor got approved last month. And my attorney says he has misplaced the Labor Paper work somewhere. He is planning to apply for duplicate.
Does any body has experience how long it takes to get the duplicate ?

 

[Gking1]

Bullshit. DOL will not issue duplicate to your lawyer, it can only issue that to INS.

Ask you lawyer to do more research work. He is just so incompetent, you might be better to pay me to do the job. Just kidding.

 

[Jim Mills]

You can't get a duplicate!!!

DOL is precluded from sending a duplicate original to anyone other than an immigration or consular officer by 20 C.F.R. Sec. 656.30(e) which states:

Certifying Officers shall issue duplicate labor certifications
only upon the written request of a Consular of Immigration
Officer. Certifying Officers shall issue such duplicate labor
certifications only to the Consular or Immigration Officer who
submitted the written request. An alien, employer, or an
employer or Alien’s agent, therefore may petition an
Immigration or Consular Officer to request a duplicate from the
certifying officer.

The attorney needs to have INS ask DOL for the duplicate. Typically, this can take a LONG time (also, INS usuallly issues an RFE for the original even though they have already been told that they need to request it directly from DOL). There's not much to be done at this point but this is a good reason not to misplace the original LC.