The electronic filing system for seasonal guestworker visas will be back online at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, according to an update from the Department of Labor.
The iCERT system crashed Jan. 1 when it was overwhelmed with applications for 97,800 H-2B workers, leaving employers unable to start the process for obtaining foreign labor for the spring season. In an update posted late Jan. 4, the agency warned it was expecting a second “huge surge in user activity” in the first 15 minutes the system is back online and asked non-H-2B users not to attempt to log in until 3 ...
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