Vice President JD Vance announced the move on Thursday (October 8), accusing companies of using foreign-worker programmes at ...

The US administration has suspended eight major technology companies from the employment-based green card process, leaving ...

The Perm Labor Certification process can be described as various pieces of a puzzle being identified and carefully positioned, with the end goal of forming a full picture in the smoothest and most ...

Sophie Alcorn, attorney, author and founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley, California, is an award-winning Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State ...

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that ...

As we discussed in a recent post, equal pay transparency (EPT) laws are on the rise across the country. While complex in their own right, EPT laws introduce new risks and challenges for employers ...

Employers are now experiencing 13-month processing times for PERM applications (form ETA 9089), which is the first stage of most employer-sponsored green card processes. Is it because the Department ...

The US Department of Labor is planning to update the process employers use to sponsor foreign workers for employment-based green cards, marking the first major review of the Permanent Labor ...

PERM Program Changes—Well-Intended but Potential for Problems DOL issued proposed revisions back in 2020, and after the required notice and comment period during which the DOL accepted comments from ...

A new bipartisan bill introduced in the US House of Representatives seeks to create an optional premium-processing programme for employment-based green card labour certifications, potentially allowing ...

The PERM process doesn't forgive careless errors. A single misstep in your foreign labor certification advertising can derail months of planning, push back hiring timelines, and force you to restart ...

The update explains DOL’s 336-day August average and summarizes a pending proposal for optional 30-day Form ETA-9089 processing. NY, UNITED STATES, September 2 ...