On February 19, 2016, the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) announced that it would begin “disclosing case processing information [for H2B applications] through [the] iCERT System … which will be updated at least weekly.”¹ The OFLC made this decision based upon “significant delays” at the OFLC Chicago National Processing Center in late 2015-early 2016 due both to an influx of H2B applications and technical network problems with the iCERT system.

On June 6, 2016, AILA published a list of all of the H2B processing time updates published on iCERT as of that date [link].²

To stay up to date with the latest case processing information for H2B applications at the Chicago National Processing Center, you may go to https://icert.doleta.gov.

See the most recent update (June 6, 2016) [PDF version].

1. Quote from the news release: To help employers better understand the current processing timeframes for H-2B applications at the Chicago NPC, the OFLC is disclosing case processing information through its iCERT System at https://icert.doleta.gov, which will be updated at least weekly.
2. AILA Doc. No. 16022505 (Jun. 6, 2015)