May 22, 2025. OFLC Announces Implementation of Records Retention Module for Decommissioned Legacy Permanent Online SystemThe Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) will be permanently deleting records from the decommissioned legacy Permanent Online System for which a final determination was made more than five years ago. The legacy Permanent Online System was officially decommissioned on December 1, 2024. Leading up to the decommissioning of the system, OFLC posted a series of announcements to let the public know they must download all necessary records by November 30, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST. Once the legacy Permanent Online System was decommissioned, the records housed in that system were no longer directly available to the public. OFLC does, however, still possess records from the system. Effective July 1, 2025, OFLC will begin deleting records from the legacy Permanent Online System to comply with its records disposition schedule, approved by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). According to OFLC’s NARA records disposition schedule, case records for which a final determination was issued more than five years ago must be permanently deleted. These deletions will occur on a rolling basis as part of routine records management procedures. Employers and their representatives who wish to obtain any records from the legacy Permanent Online System must submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request no later than June 5th, 2025. After this date, affected records will no longer be retrievable. Please note: Once deleted, records cannot be recovered or accessed through any means, including FOIA requests.
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