dol
zbcx123,
Yes, the main reason is due to a major backlog in NON-RIR labor certs due to an amnesty granted to a large group of illegal aliens. I believe it is called the LIFE amnesty. These people were given a deadline of April 30, 2001 to apply for their labor certs, and a lot did causing a big backlog for anyone in NON-RIRs with PDs after May 1st, 2001. Apparantly the bigl backlog follows me to DOL as all of these people go through DOL as well. I believe DOL has seperate NON-RIR and RIR queues so it shouldn't have a big impact to most of you who are RIR. At any rate I also believe the DOL is better equipped to clear the backlog than the State agency, so I think the worst is over. Given the horror shows with RIR in the IT field, I am still probably better off it the slow line.
massDBA