PERM Audits from Atlanta. A new backlog?

[fernandocherrera]

Fellows,

We all had a sigh of relief when we saw the new labor certification process (PERM) and were promised that it will be much faster and smooth. Thankfully they have kept their promise, for the most part, except for the cases that get audited.

The cases that are 'randomly audited' have been pending for months and months, some cases have been pending for over an year and there have been no response from DoL what so ever. I understand that a year does not sound bad especially to those folks who had their labor approved through the old process but these days the labor is getting approved within 50-60 days (average). It appears that the DOL (Atlanta Processing Center at least) does not bother to look at the documents once the audit has been replied to.

I have heard of cases where the lawyers have retreated the application in the audit and filed a new application (a gamble) hoping that it does not get audit this time around. But not sure how that turned out.

Atlanta seems to be taking forever to get through their applications.

Updates:
If any of you has a PERM going through audit, feel free to use this thread as a place where all the Perm Auditees come and show their support. As of now we are gathering people here to estimate how many people are out there suffering the delays caused by Perm Audit.

[martinez714]

I'm stuck in the Atlanta PERM too.......

Audit from Atlanta DOL increased in the last quarter of 2007 because they are working on several other things, but after Oct 07, they haven't cleared several audit cases.