Posts Tagged ‘Labor Department’

Issuance of Prevailing Wage Requests Resumed

August 26th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

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. 


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PERM Regular Processing Time is Current – February 2011

February 9th, 2011 Tushar Mathur

U.S. Labor Department’s iCERT Portal posted the following PERM processing times as for 02/04/2011

Regular PERM cases are processed through this month – Feb. 2011

Analyst Reviews (Regular Cases): February 2011
Audits: January 2009
Standard Appeals: June 2008
Govt Error Appeals: Current


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Visa for Nurses

September 25th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

Looking at the huge shortage of the nurses in the United States today, this has gone up to 117,000 for the case of unfilled vacancies for registered and qualified nurses, at different hospitals and nursing homes across the United States.

As a resolution to the above mentioned problem on the 11th of Feb in 2009. A new act was introduced in the house known as the Nurse Relief Act HR 1001. The crux of this new Act is that a new category of visas, the W – Visa category would be introduced which would only be for the nurses from all over the world to come over to the United States.

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