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Beginning January 19, 2001, ETA Regional Offices will no longer accept the currently used Labor Condition Application forms (LCAs). A new H-1B regulation was published December 20, 2000. This regulation changed both the Labor Condition Application form and where it is to be filed.
Effective January 19, 2001, neither the one page ETA 9035 initially published in the Federal Register of December 1994, nor the two page forms (ETA 9035) used by the LCAfax system will be accepted by ETA for processing.
On February 5, 2001, ETA will begin accepting for automated processing the new three page ETA 9035 either by facsimile or by mail sent to the PO Box shown below. This will allow ETA time to process LCAs received prior to January 19, and to retool the system to process the new form. LCAs that must be processed during the period January 19 - February 5 must be submitted on the new three page form, and mailed to the appropriate ETA Regional Office, or may be mailed to a Philadelphia PO Box, where they will be manually reviewed. For expeditious processing, ETA strongly encourages employers and their representatives to wait until after February 5, 2001 before submitting, and to file LCAs by fax.
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