News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC We previously posted here about unconfirmed reports of a possible change to the way the U.S. Department of State determines immigrant visa availability under the statutory system of preference categories and per-country...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC According to a news item posted online on September 3, 2015 by the National Law Review, there may soon be a change to the way the U.S. Department of State determines immigrant visa availability under the statutory system...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC The U.S. Department of State’s instructions for the 2016 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2016) are now available. Entries for the DV-2016 program must be submitted electronically between October 1 and November 3,...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC The U.S. Department of State’s instructions for the 2015 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2015) are now available. Entries for the DV-2015 program must be submitted electronically between October 1 and November 2,...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC In January the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it would make copies of various documents submitted to it by employers available to the public in a searchable Labor Certification Registry (LCR). These include...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced that it will make copies of H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, H-2A, H-2B, and PERM labor certification documents, as submitted by employers, available to the general public through its iCERT...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC – September 20, 2012 Employers who wish to permanently hire foreign workers through a labor certification-based process must conduct a test of the labor market to ensure that there are not sufficient U.S. workers able,...
News Release from Jewell & Associates, PC – September 19, 2012 Employers and business immigration law practitioners are familiar with the challenge presented by labor market test timelines in the labor certification (LC) process. In a previous blog post we noted...
As we have noted in previous posts, employers wishing to file labor certifications on behalf of their employees must follow strict recruiting guidelines set by the Department of Labor. This includes the performance of three of ten optional recruitment steps. One of these optional recruitment steps is the use of a private employment firm or placement agency, which can be documented by material “sufficient to demonstrate that recruitment has been conducted.” See 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e)(1)(ii)(F). The regulation gives two examples of such material: Copies of contracts between the employer and the firm, and copies of advertisements placed.
