The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department or DOL) proposes to amend its regulations relating to the permanent employment of aliens in the United States. The proposed amendments would permit employers to request that any labor certification application for permanent employment filed on or before July 26, 2000, and which has not been sent to the regional certifying officer, be processed as a reduction in recruitment request, provided recruitment has not been conducted pursuant to the permanent labor certification regulations. ETA anticipates that the proposed amendment would reduce the backlog of labor certification applications for permanent employment in State Employment Security Agencies (SESA). This measure to reduce backlogs would result in a variety of desirable benefits, a reduction in processing time for both new applications and those applications currently in the queue, would facilitate the development and implementation of a new, more efficient system for processing labor certification applications for permanent employment in the United States, and would reduce government resources necessary to process applications for alien employment certification.
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