Posts Tagged ‘Department Of Labor’

Issuance of Prevailing Wage Requests Resumed

The U.S. Department of Labor has resumed issuance of Prevailing Wage Determination (PWD) after a few weeks of suspension of the service.  PWD is required in all PERM foreign labor application cases and is also used in other non-immigrant visa petitions such as H-1Bs and H-2Bs.  Recently, the service was suspended by the Labor Department temporarily in order for the agency to meet the requirements of a federal court order to process thousands of H-2B PWDs. 


BALCA Sets Standard on PERM Employee Referral Program

Since the foreign labor certification application process was converted into an online system in March of 2005, there have been many uncertainties about the requirements of the new system called PERM.  Over the last five years, some of these requirements have been clarified by the Department of Labor; some others had to be explained by the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) on appeal.   Recently, BALCA resolved an important PERM requirement in regards to the use of employee referral program as a recruiting step.

 

Generally speaking, a U.S.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | Intro to Getting a Green Card Through Employment

This will be the first of several blog posts covering employment-based immigrant visas—the route to a green card through employment. Only 140,000 immigrant visas are made available per year for immigrants, along with their spouses and children, who wish to immigrate based on their job skills. On top of that, there is a quota that limits every country to seven percent of the available green cards every year. (There is no quota for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens.) And, several categories (known as “preferences”) of employment-based immigrant visa petitions require that the sponsoring employer file a labor certification application with the U.S.

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Immigration Attorney for the US

There are a lot of immigration attorney services available for people looking forward to immigrate to the United States. They serve both corporate and individual customers.

If you have been keeping a track of the updates from the USCIS and the Department of Labor, you ought to know that they come up with different regulations very frequently. I do understand that it’s very tough for a layman to understand them fully and correctly, thus the solution to all that is the immigration attorney services. When you are a client with one of these immigration attorney services, you can be confident about their knowledge of the latest rules that would apply to your case and they would also ensure that your filing has been done properly and correctly, and also the paperwork are in order.

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