The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has advised the American Immigration Lawyers Association that DOL has responded to roughly 75% of the RIR conversion request emails. For these cases, DOL has either provided prevailing wage information or rejected the RIR conversion request. For the rejected cases, there will be no rebuttal process for the RIR conversion opportunity. These cases may still be eligible for RIR processing; however, the employer runs the risk that the case may begin supervised recruitment before the RIR request is submitted to DOL. DOL will notify the public as soon as possible when it has responded to all the RIR request emails.

In addition, DOL continues to send out resumes received from job orders where the job order activity was initiated by the DOL before the RIR conversion email was received. Resumes are being sent as part of the processing of the RIR conversion request emails. The resumes are being sent to the attorney of record.

The DOL also indicated that it is reviewing cases where they receive an email concerning incorrect case types on their Backlog Public Disclosure System (PDS) and updating their system as appropriate. DOL is not advising attorneys or employers when these corrections are made, but instead suggests that attorneys check the PDS after a couple of weeks to determine if the change has been completed.

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