After you have actually received a deal from a U.S. company (if you require a job deal under your prospective category of lawful long-term residence), getting a U.S. permit is a multistage process. Here, we'll provide an overview.
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Basic Steps to Receiving U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Based Upon Employment
In short, requesting an employment based green card includes these actions:
- Your potential employer requests what's called a fundamental wage decision (PWD) from the U.S. Department of Labor, using the online FLAG system. The PWD is the Department of Labor's official ruling regarding just how much money is typically paid to people in tasks like the one you have actually been provided. The PWD will typically expire within a year or less, so it will be very important to recruit for employment and file the PERM labor certification soon after the PWD is issued.
- Your company advertises and recruits for employment the task you have actually been offered and ultimately determines (in great faith) that there are no certified U.S. workers readily available and going to take the job.
- Your company files a PERM labor certification application online, utilizing the electronic USDOL Form 9089.
- You wait the numerous months that the DOL will take to adjudicate the PERM labor accreditation application, and mail the licensed PERM application to your employer (this time frame can extend as much as a year if the DOL chooses your PERM application for audit).
- Within 180 days of the PERM labor accreditation approval, your company prepares and files a petition using Form I-140, issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
- After USCIS approves the petition, you wait up until a visa is available. It may be immediately offered, if the number of people who applied in your category in that same year is less than the number of visas offered