Case Disclosure Data
Current FLC Program Data
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification has begun releasing program disclosure data on
a quarterly basis on their
OFLC Case Disclosure Data page.
Data for program years 2008 and newer can be accessed there.
Archived FLC Program Data
A one to one relationship does not exist between the number of
workers certified by the Department of Labor (DOL) and the number of work visas
issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
DOL Foreign Labor Certification data indicates an interest by U.S. employers
to hire foreign workers; it does not provide direct evidence that these employers
actually hired the workers. For example, DOL typically certifies over three
times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H-1B visas issued by
USCIS.
Archived Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) disclosure data are available for the Permanent,
H-1B and H-2B programs. The data for program years prior to 2008 can be downloaded by following the links
below.
Notice:
Employer-specific case information that appears on
FLCDataCenter.com was provided to ETA by employers who submitted foreign
labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics
survey. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Occupational Employment
Statistics program provides estimates used to assist in setting the wage
levels in the FLC wage library. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
does not provide ETA with the wage rates reported to BLS by individual
businesses. The identity of respondents and the information that they
report to BLS is kept in strict confidence in accordance with Bureau of
Labor Statistics Data Integrity Guidelines and with the Confidentiality
Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2002.