{"id":279,"date":"2009-12-16T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-12-16T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:16:40","slug":"perm-processing-times-and-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"PERM Processing Times and Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

PERM labor certification processing remains abysmally slow at the the Department of Labor.\u00a0 The DOL recently touted a6% improvement (11% to 17%) in PERM adjudications without 6 months of filing<\/a>.\u00a0 This means that the DOL is now able to issue a decision (approval or denial) in 17% of cases within 6 months.\u00a0 The vast, vast majority are now taking over two years.\u00a0 The DOL is taking a very hard line and they are second guessing every decision made in the recruitment process.\u00a0 Because the current unemployment rate is hovering around 10%, the DOL has decided that most job openings should be filled by US workers.\u00a0 That is having a very negative impact on foreign workers who are applying for permanent residence.\u00a0 Therefore, we are recommending that all green card hopefuls try to avoid PERM altogether.<\/p>\n

There are 11 common paths to US permanent residency (green card) which do not involve PERM labor certification.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 EB1 Extraordinary Ability<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 EB1 Outstanding Researcher<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 EB1 Executive Transferee<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 EB2 National Interest Waiver<\/a><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 EB3 Schedule A Worker<\/a><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 EB4 Religious Worker<\/a><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 EB4 Violence Against Women Act<\/a><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 EB5 Immigrant Investor<\/a><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Marriage Green Card<\/a><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Political Asylum<\/a><\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 DV Lottery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PERM labor certification processing remains abysmally slow at the the Department of Labor.\u00a0 The DOL recently touted a6% improvement (11% to 17%) in PERM adjudications without 6 months of filing.\u00a0 This means that the DOL is now able to issue a decision (approval or denial) in 17% of cases within 6 months.\u00a0 The vast, vast … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-certification","category-perm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}