“The Workplace of Overseas Labor Certification (OFLC) reminds employers and different stakeholders that the submitting window to submit an H-2B Utility for Momentary Employment Certification (Type ETA-9142B and appendices) requesting work begin dates of April 1, 2025, or later, will open on January 1, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. Jap Time.Â
Following OFLC’s customary working procedures, H-2B functions requesting an April 1, 2025, work begin date will likely be denied if they’re filed earlier than January 1, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. Jap Time.Â
OFLC will randomly order for processing all H-2B functions requesting a piece begin date of April 1, 2024, which might be filed through the preliminary three calendar days (January 1-3, 2024) utilizing the randomization procedures revealed within the Federal Register on March 4, 2019.
If OFLC identifies a number of functions that seem to have been filed for a similar job alternative, OFLC will challenge a Discover of Deficiency. If a number of filings are submitted through the three-day submitting window, all functions will obtain a Discover of Deficiency requesting that the employer exhibit that the job alternatives should not the identical. Employers that fail to ascertain a bona fide want for every software will obtain a non-acceptance denial for every software.
IMPORTANT REMINDER:Â Employers are reminded that Overseas Labor Utility Gateway (FLAG) System consumer accounts are solely for the usage of the person for whom they had been created. Sharing the identical consumer account is forbidden and is grounds for terminating FLAG entry. Passwords or some other authentication mechanism ought to by no means be shared or saved in anyplace simply accessible. If saved, a password might not be saved in a clear-text or readable format.”
