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DOL Announces iCERT Enhancements in the H-2A and H-2B Programs

11/13/18 AILA Doc. No. 18111537. Business Immigration, H-2A Agricultural Worker, H-2B Temporary Worker

From the DOL website:

November 13, 2018. The Employment and Training Administration Announces iCERT Enhancements to Improve Customer Service in the H-2A and H-2B Programs

The Employment and Training Administration's Office of Foreign Labor Certification today implemented new enhancements to the iCERT system related to the submission of applications for temporary labor certification under the H-2A and H-2B programs. These enhancements are intended to improve customer service and increase the quality of applications submitted for processing.

These enhancements include data validation checks designed to assist employers in preparing H-2A and H-2B applications according to the required form fields and instructions approved by the Office of Management and Budget. Specifically, employers preparing applications must ensure that each required field of the Form ETA-9142A, H-2A Application for Temporary Employment Certification, and ETA-9142B, H-2B Application for Temporary Employment Certification, is completed before submitting to the National Processing Center for processing. As a reminder, the iCERT system helps employers prepare applications by displaying mandatory fields on the Forms ETA-9142A and 9142B with an asterisk (*), and conditional mandatory fields with a section symbol (§) where the response is conditioned on one or more previous form entries.

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