*For the centralized backlog processing, the DOL hired a contractor in 2003 to develop the model processing program, which was tested afterwards by the contractor in Maryland under the name of Centralized Processing Center in the form of a Pilot Program. The Pilot Program was completed and closed at the end of calendar year 2003. Apparently, based on the program, the DOL created the two Backlog Processing Centers in Dallas and Philadelphia. The implementation and operation of the program are currently handled by another contractor named EXCEED Corporation in Maryland.
*Review of the Training Manual which was developed by the DOL in 2003 through the first contractor named TMS may shed some lights on the operation and management of the backlog reduction works at the two Backlog Processing Centers in Dallas and Philadelphia. The Manual even includes large number of form letters which the agency was recommended to use from the beginning of processing to the final determination of each application. People may find that the first letters which the lawyers or employers currently receive from the two Backlog Processing Centers more or less resemble the form letters in the Training Manual. We post this publication because people currently remain in the darkness and are frustrated for not knowing what is happening in the two centers. People are reminded that the DOL official who led the Pilot Program last year has been appointed as the Director of National Processing Centers for the PERM program. To read the complete training manual book please click
here.
Source: Immigration-law.com