Here is the paragraph from Oh-law
10/05/2006: Traditional Labor Conversion to RIR Rule to be Published Tomorrow, 10/06/2006
According to the advance copy of the federal register which the AILA has obtained, the DOL will change the rule such that the traditional (regular) labor certification application may be allowed to be convered to RIR for all those cases which have been pending since March 27, 2005 except those applications the state had already started the recruitment by job order or the BEC has started the recruitment processing by issuing the job order and recruitment instructions. Consequently, if people have already received the recruitment instructions, these cases will not be eligible for the conversion. Additionally, those cases, which the SWA had already started the recruitment process before March 28, 2005 when they ceased their work and transferred the files to the BEC will also be excluded from the conversion opportunity. If the cases had already been completed by the SWAs and forwarded to the Region's Certifying Officers, and then later shipped to the BEC, these cases will also be excluded. The notice does not make it clear, but it is obvious that if the SWA forwarded RIR application to the Regions for the CO's review of eligibility of RIR, which have later been remanded to the SWA by the CO after denying RIR and the cases had been automatically converted to a traditioanl application and pending in BEC for processing as traditional cases under the traditional case queue, these cases are likely to be eligible for conversion and no recruitment has been commenced as a traditional application. For the to-be-released federal notice tomorrow, please stay tuned to this web site.
. Anyways, as we all know there was sea of applications that were submited before april 30th 2001 and most of it were for the illegals which is the main reason we all are in this SHI!$#@ hole. So no matter what we think they will have to go thru all of these and get to ours. There are few non 245(i) cases that pop up on the AJB site every now and then so it is not only 245(i) that are being worked on, we are in a minority prior to April 30th 2001. Looks like it will be another month or two when i can expect my ADVT to be posted( my pd is 4/30/2001). Then the whole process about interviewing etc and it will be March or April as per my GUESTIMATES for me. Hope this helps.