[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 123 (Monday, June 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27877-27878]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12023]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Change of Physical Mailing Address
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the
Department of Labor (DOL) is issuing this notice to announce that the
Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) is changing the mailing
address for its temporary programs, currently submitted to addresses in
Chicago, IL August 29, 2025.
DATES: The new address announced in this notice is effective on August
29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The new centralized mailing address: U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Foreign Labor
Certification, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5311, Washington, DC
20210. This address will be used both to receive documentary evidence
for applications and to receive payments for H-2A certification
invoices.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Pasternak, Administrator, Office
of Foreign Labor Certification, Employment and Training Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5311,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 693-8200 (this is not a toll-free
number). For persons with a hearing or speech disability who need
assistance to use the telephone system, please dial 711 to access
telecommunications relay services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Secretary of Labor (Secretary) has unique responsibilities
under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which is delegated to
OFLC through ETA, to provide employers with timely access to a
qualified workforce while protecting the wages and working conditions
of U.S. and foreign workers in their employment. OFLC receives
applications from employers seeking permission to employ foreign
workers on both a temporary and permanent basis and evaluates each
application for compliance with the relevant statutory and regulatory
requirements. Although the vast majority of OFLC applications
requesting temporary labor certification are submitted and processed
electronically, some employers submit applications, supplemental
information, and remittances for fees assessed as a condition of
granting H-2A labor certification through the United States Postal
Service or commercial parcel delivery services (collectively ``physical
mail'').
Physical mail submitted to OFLC related to its temporary programs,
including the H-2A temporary agricultural program, H-2B temporary non-
agricultural program, CW-1 program for workers employed in the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, D-1 program for
performing longshore work at U.S. ports, and labor condition
applications (LCA) or labor attestations for the E-3, H-1B, and H-1B1
visa classifications, is currently addressed to the National Processing
Center (NPC) located in Chicago, IL. Specifically, physical mail for
documents related to these temporary programs, when applicable, is
currently addressed to the NPC's mailing address at: U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Foreign Labor
Certification, Chicago National Processing Center, 11 W Quincy Court,
Chicago, Illinois 60604. Physical mail associated with H-2A
certification invoice payments is addressed and mailed to Chicago
National Processing Center, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, U.S.
Department of Labor, P.O. Box A3804, Chicago, IL 60690-A3804.
OFLC's expanded use of technology has allowed for the electronic
filing and processing of employer applications within the Foreign Labor
Application Gateway (FLAG) System (https://flag.dol.gov/) as well as
electronic communications with employers and their authorized attorneys
or agents, as applicable, throughout the application process. Full
implementation of the
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FLAG System has significantly eliminated the need for physical
processing centers and the frequency with which employers and their
authorized attorneys or agents, as applicable, need to send physical
mail in connection with the aforementioned temporary programs. The
benefits associated with the FLAG system modernization initiative have
allowed OFLC to consolidate all incoming physical mail into a single
physical location. Accordingly, this Notice informs the public about a
change of mailing address for physical mail currently sent to the NPC
located in Chicago, IL.
New Mailing Address
Effective August 29, 2025, any physical mail sent to the NPC in
Chicago must be submitted to the following new centralized mailing
address: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room N-5311, Washington, DC 20210. This address will be used
both to receive documentary evidence for applications and to receive
payments for H-2A certification invoices.
The correct new mailing address above must be used as of August 29,
2025. Any United States Postal Service mail addressed to the Chicago,
IL NPC's prior mailing addresses will be forwarded by the U.S. Postal
Service for a limited period of time, but OFLC will not consider such
forwarded mail timely if the mail is postmarked after September 19,
2025. Courier services and other courier mail or parcel delivery
services will no longer have the ability to deliver physical mail to
the Chicago, IL NPC's former mailing addresses as of August 29, 2025
and OFLC will no longer have staff physically present at the prior
address or access to the building. Failure to send mail to the new
centralized mail receipt location identified in this Notice may result
in processing delays and possibly denials if the information and
documentation submitted by mail is not delivered as instructed and
within the timeframe directed by OFLC.
Authority: 20 CFR 655.101(a), 655.2(a); 655.401; 655.501,
655.705(a).
Susan Frazier,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Labor.
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