OMB Reviews DOL's Backlog Plan
Posted Jun 25, 2004
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed its review of the Backlog Reduction Plan of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on June 21, 2004. We reported this intended interim final rule in our April 30, 2004 MurthyBulletin article, DOL: Two More Immigration Regulations Pending at OMB, available on MurthyDotCom. Though the full plan will not be revealed until the regulation is published in the Federal Register, we expect the rule to permit the DOL to open two backlog reduction centers, with one in Dallas and one in Philadelphia. More details are available in our June 18, 2004 article, Labor Certification Update – June 2004, also available on MurthyDotCom.
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At the June 2004 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) conference, officials from the DOL indicated that the DOL's backlog reduction plan will be implemented before PERM. Therefore, we expect that the implementation date of this plan will be less than 120 days from publication of the regulation. We will continue to monitor the progress of this important regulation and provide detailed analysis to MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers once it is published in the Federal Register.