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Prevailing Wage Request Delays Under iCert Form 9141 System
February 04th, 2010 | Category: Articles, DOL, H-1B, News, PERM
Effective January 1, 2010, the Department of Labor (DOL) centralized all prevailing wage determinations needed in connection with certain programs – PERM, H-1B, H-2B and E-3. All prevailing wage requests now must be submitted to DOL for processing and not to the state workforce agencies, as it was done before.
Because DOL was not ready to accept electronic submissions on January 1, it announced that it would accept paper prevailing wage submissions until the iCert system is modified to accept prevailing wage requests on Form 9141. As a result, many prevailing wage requests from early this year were submitted via mail. On or about January 15, 2010, DOL launched the online prevailing wage request form and is now accepting online submissions.
Prevailing Wage Determinations Currently Take Three to Four Weeks
Unfortunately, delays in the processing of the prevailing wage requests are widely reported. In many instances, paper request forms submitted before January 15th took one or two weeks to be entered into the system and confirmed as submitted. We are seeing that it currently takes between three and four weeks for DOL to provide prevailing wage determinations.
In communications related to the new system, DOL has indicated that prevailing wage determinations may take up to 60 days. This is in a sharp contrast to the pre-January 1, 2010 system where state workforce agencies were often able to provide prevailing wage determinations within 1-2 days.
We hope that DOL is experiencing adjustment issues to the new system and once system glitches are ironed out, DOL will staff the prevailing wage determination bureau properly so that determinations can be issued promptly. To avoid delays in H-1B petitions associated with prevailing wage determinations, our office uses alternative prevailing wage surveys. However, for PERM labor certification applications, the new prevailing wage determination system adds one to two months of additional PERM preparation time.
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