On July 28, 2004, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a series of senior management changes within the department which will take effect on October 1, 2005. The change that will be the most striking for immigration cases is the promotion of the current Foreign Labor Certification Division Chief, William Carlson, to the new position of ETA Region 1 (Boston) Administrator. Mr. Carlson is credited with re-engineering the Foreign Labor Certification program including the implementation of PERM, the shifting of old cases to Backlog Elimination Centers and the streamlining of the old Reduction in Recruitment style labor certifications.

His replacement will be John R. Beverly who currently holds the position of Office of National Programs Administrator. In his current role, Mr. Beverly provides direction to the program offices for Foreign Labor Certification, Seasonal Farm Workers, Older Workers, Native Americans, and Disability and Workforce Programs. Previously, he was the Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Employment Service. He has also held senior analyst positions within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, the Secretary's Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Efficiency, the ILO Washington Branch Office, and the President's Health Care Task Force. He is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., and the Woodrow Wilson School of Domestic and International Affairs at Princeton University.

It is unclear at this time how this change in management will impact current programs. The entire press release can be found at: http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=17074.

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