18 months remaining

[arihant]

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/

I found this on the DOL's website above.

Foreign Labor Certification
Backlog will be eliminated 9/30/2007
There is a statement in bold below this which says "18 Months Remaining". I am unable to post this jpg in the forum.

I read through the text below it briefly and did not find any more interesting info.

Found this strange that they are advertising the fact that 18 months remain while they do not seem to have completed even data entry in over a year as evidenced by the fact that several of us are still waiting on the 45 day letters.

[logiclife]

The Backlog centers should be ashamed of themselves. They make the state DMVs look like an efficient government departments.

18 more months!!! And they congratulate themselves?

You know, there is a saying "If you have infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters for an infinite amount of time, eventually they would come up with the exact creation of Shakespeare".

[apnair2002]

The Backlog centers should be ashamed of themselves. They make the state DMVs look like an efficient government departments.

18 more months!!! And they congratulate themselves?

You know, there is a saying "If you have infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters for an infinite amount of time, eventually they would come up with the exact creation of Shakespeare".

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/

I hope they are sincere in meeting the 18 month timeline. That would have to mean the certifications are bound to come one after another starting in 2-3 months max.

[H1B-GC]

Well, i feel its more of a Policy decision.If they really want to do something fast they will do it anyhow.The best example is how this woman from canada i guess,who got US citizenship in 2 days,yes its right '2 days' so she can represent US in the ongoing Winter Olympics at Turin.

Even CA state used to abjudicate Labor cases in 1 Months Time back until 2000.Later on 0 approval cases from then on.Surprising??

[logiclife]

California used to finish the labor cert in 7-8 months even in 2004, 2005, just before BECs started.

I got my state labor approved and then it went to the San Francisco office in Dec 2004 and got it approved in June 2005. I am glad it didnt go to backlog center coz they were just starting up at the time.

Backlog centers have worsened the problem by slowing things down even further and now you even lost transparency. They are like "Trust us, we are the elite backlog centers...how could WE do anything wrong".

[v2neha]

Very true - unfortunately my case that was received at SFO regional office in July'04 got transferred to PBEC in Oct'04. It is still rotting there! I read somewhere that BECs were supposed to follow adjudication process of CA SWAs and Regional offices due to their proven efficiency compared to other states. Wish they did - clearly they didn't

[diesel]

Now they are saying 17 months (until 9/30/2007)

Is a year 10 months? What kind of math is this? :confused:

[diesel]

Now they are saying 17 months (until 9/30/2007)

Is a year 10 months? What kind of math is this? :confused:

OK.. now they changed it to 19 months. :)

[logiclife]

Now we know the efficiency reasons behind backlog centers.

9 + 10 = ?????????

Any surprise why many of us didnt get 45 day letters? Imaigine how the number 45 was derieved?

[black_logs]

They have special love for 45 days. recently they have come with 45 days expiry days for the labor, How insane a dept. can be , this is a perfect example !!!!!

I wonder why they didn't write
9+10 = 45

[mjdup]

Quite obvious why the jobs get outsourced. Great !

[Xipe Totec]

California used to finish the labor cert in 7-8 months even in 2004, 2005, just before BECs started.

I got my state labor approved and then it went to the San Francisco office in Dec 2004 and got it approved in June 2005. I am glad it didnt go to backlog center coz they were just starting up at the time.


Hmmm, then how come my labor filed in 2002, approved by SWA in 2003 was still pending when BECs were created (and then went to Philly to rot further)?

So no -- California DOL sucked big time (at least for cases filed from California, it was somewhat faster for Washington, Arizona, etc.)

[arihant]

Checked DOL website yesterday (4/30) and today (5/01) to see what the front page would say. Sure enough - the image changed from "18 Months Remaining" yesterday to "17 Months Remaining" today!

Web gurus, can you guys make sense of the following lines? I grabbed them from the DOL's website source. Can you tell if this being manually changed or some script is doing it automatically:

<h3 style="color: #990000">Foreign Labor Certification</h3>

<!-- script will be here? -->
<p style="font-weight: bold">Backlog will be eliminated 9/30/2007<br />

<!-- start script -->
<img src="images/17MonthsRemaining.jpg" width="270" height="46" alt="17 Months Remaining" border="0" /></p>

<!-- img src="images/19MonthsRemaining.jpg" width="270" height="46" alt="19 Months Remaining" border="0" /></p -->

[GCBy3000]

From view source it is difficult to find whether it is manually or automatically updated. But from this site it is easier to identify becos the person who updated this did leave a mark. The previous image is commented out and the new one is inserted. So this is manual update. Everymonth someone will go to this page and update it.

[EternityInLimbo]

Well, i feel its more of a Policy decision.If they really want to do something fast they will do it anyhow.The best example is how this woman from canada i guess,who got US citizenship in 2 days,yes its right '2 days' so she can represent US in the ongoing Winter Olympics at Turin.

Even CA state used to abjudicate Labor cases in 1 Months Time back until 2000.Later on 0 approval cases from then on.Surprising??

Absolutely it's a policy decision: not only in terms of prioritization of activities but in terms of resource allocation. DOL insists they have enough resources to meet their goals. They have to report how well they're doing on their annual federal scorecard, and if they set their objectives low enough, they get an "A"... that is, if activities serving non-voters were even being tracked as one of their objectives.

One of the clerks at my immigrations law firm said the word was, DOL was prioritizing getting cases into the Permanent Backlog System, as opposed to allocating staff/resources into completing reviews. Don't know if this is old news posted elsewhere or consistent with what others have heard, but if this is the case, it would explain why approvals have been few and far between.

[arihant]

Additional Resources to Eliminate Backlog by Sep 2007

The DOL reports that they are "scaling up" resources dedicated to the elimination of backlog cases. Their stated deadline for eliminating the backlog is September 30, 2007. Based on what we at the Murthy Law Firm are experiencing, they are going to have to really increase their efforts, particularly in Pennsylvania, to meet this goal. They note that the work at the BPCs cannot be compared to the PERM case processing, since backlog cases receive full review, whereas the PERM cases are based upon attestations and primarily are technology-driven.