01/21/2010 - iCert Portal Now Online for Prevailing Wage Determination Request Submission
The Department of Labor's iCert Portal, online since last summer for Labor Condition Application submissions in connection with H-1Bs, H-1B1s, and E-3s, has now been modified to accept Prevailing Wage Determination requests.
Since January 1 of this year, all of these requests are handled centrally at the Federal Department of Labor's office in Washington, D.C. rather than at individual State Department of Labor Offices.
While the intent was always for the process to be handled via electronic submission, the iCert system was not immediately ready to accept submissions online. Consequently, requests had to be submitted by mail for the last 20 days.
After a 24-hour outage in the iCert system to install the capability, the iCert Prevailing Wage submission system is now online.
This will hopefully speed up use of the new centralized system, and at least make determinations consistent.
Employers utilizing the H-1B, H-1B1, H-2B, E-3, and PERM programs, as well as sponsored foreign national employees.