2025 年 11 月 5 日 - OFLC 宣布受政府停摆影响的某些申请处理行动的延期和紧急程序

will have their due dates automatically extended by 33 calendar days, which is the number of calendar days during which OFLC staff who were officially recalled back to work on November 3 were unable to accept and process applications.

any application or other correspondence submitted by mail or commercial delivery service will be considered to have been filed on the date it was postmarked.

a PERM application postmarked on October 1, 2025 will be given a receipt date of October 1, 2025, upon entry into the FLAG system.

Any correspondence sent by email will be deemed to have been received the day it was sent.

Employers do not need to submit a request to extend any submission deadline that fell during the period of October 1, 2025, through November 2, 2025.

OFLC is implementing the following temporary changes to its standard procedures related to applications and documents that were impacted by the cessation of application processing activities from October 1, 2025, through November 2, 2025

if an employer’s recruitment efforts or prevailing wage determination expired between October 1 and November 2, 2025

Emergency filing procedures for H-2A, H-2B, and CW-1 applications which could not be filed between October 1, 2025, and October 31, 2025.

The emergency filing procedures regulations all require employers to demonstrate good and substantial cause for the requests to be accepted.

beginning October 1, OFLC ceased all application processing activities and suspended public access to its Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system and SeasonalJobs.dol.gov registry of H-2A and H-2B temporary job opportunities.

OFLC staff who were officially recalled back to work on November 3

which contained a due date for response by the employer during the period of October 1, 2025, through November 2, 2025

may submit applications electronically using the expired recruitment efforts or prevailing wage determination during the same 33 calendar day period

this guidance only applies to deadlines imposed by OFLC, it does not apply to deadlines for submission of appeals to or deadlines set by the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA).

OFLC does not have the authority to change regulatory deadlines for submissions to BALCA or to alter deadlines set by BALCA.

Employers may receive a warning message from the FLAG system when submitting a PERM application with recruitment that is outside the regulatory 180-day filing window or when using an expired prevailing wage determination.

However, the employer will still be able to complete and submit the application.

a request for reconsideration explaining the circumstances may be submitted to the OFLC Certifying Officer.