The first half of September added the context around a case: what the bulletin is likely to do, who is laying people off, what a job has to pay, and which rules are about to change.
The visa bulletin, computed from its own history
The visa bulletin page shows what every earlier bulletin for the coming month did, category by category, beside USCIS's count of the people waiting ahead of each cutoff. It doesn't forecast. The day a bulletin lands, the page leads with what that bulletin did. The family-sponsored charts have their own page (family bulletin), and the year's spillover from unused family numbers is read from the State Department's own annual limits sheet and Table V.
Layoff notices
Layoffs lists the WARN notices California, New York, Texas and Washington publish, linked to the employer's page wherever the company also sponsors PERM cases. Texas refuses scripts, so its file is loaded by hand; the page says so.
What a job has to pay
Wage levels asks DOL's own wage search for the four levels of any occupation in any area, the OEWS figures DOL draws on for a prevailing wage determination.
Rules, with their dates
Policy changes lists the Federal Register documents and OFLC announcements that touch these programs, each with its effective date, its comment window, the printed first page and the document's own DATES paragraph. A timeline shows what is open for comment and what takes effect next.
Smaller additions
- The glossary and the status dictionary define every term and every status DOL uses, with the rule each one comes from.
- Debarments now separates a bar in force, a bar that ended and a bar ordered for a future date. One employer had been shown as "ended" 52 days before its bar began.
- Badges put DOL's published figures in a README or a web page.
- Every email links to its own way out: subscriber mail to the preference page, account mail to Settings.
- Corrections lists everything this site published that was wrong, what was true, and what changed.
