Instructions for ETA Form 9089
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Application for Permanent Employment Certification
ETA Form 9089 - Instructions
U.S. Department of Labor
OMB Approval: 1205-0451
Expiration Date: 03/31/2008
IMPORTANT: Please read these instructions carefully before completing ETA Form 9089 – Application
for Permanent Employment Certification. These instructions contain full explanations of the questions
and attestations that make up Form ETA 9089.
Any employer or alien, or their agent or attorney, who knowingly and willingly furnishes any false
information in the preparation of ETA Form 9089 and any supporting documentation, or aids, abets, or
counsels another to do so is committing a federal offense, punishable by fine or imprisonment up to five
years or both (18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1001). Other penalties apply as well to fraud or misuse of this immigration
document and to perjury with respect to this form (18 U.S.C. §§ 1546, 1621).
Employing or continuing to employ an alien unauthorized to work in the United States is illegal and may
subject the employer to criminal prosecution, civil money penalties, or both.
Privacy Statement Information
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a), you are hereby notified that the
information provided herein is protected under the Privacy Act. The Department of Labor (Department)
maintains a System of Records titled Employer Application and Attestation File for Permanent and Temporary
Alien Workers (DOL/ETA-7) that includes this record.
Under routine uses for this system of records, case files developed in processing labor certification
applications, labor condition applications, or labor attestations may be released as follows: in connection with
appeals of denials before the DOL Office of Administrative Law Judges and Federal courts, records may be
released to the employers that filed such applications, their representatives, to named alien beneficiaries or
their representatives, and to the DOL Offic