After you have actually gotten an appropriate task deal from a U.S. company (if you need a task deal under your potential category of lawful long-term house), getting a U.S. green card is a multistage process. Here, we'll offer an introduction.
Basic Steps to Receiving U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Based Upon Employment
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Lawful Permanent Residence for Spouse and Children of Employee
Basic Steps to Receiving U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Based Upon Employment
In brief, getting a work based permit involves these steps:
- Your prospective company 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 how much cash is typically paid to individuals in tasks like the one you've been offered. The PWD will normally expire within a year or less, so it will be necessary to recruit for employment and submit the PERM labor certification quickly after the PWD is issued.
- Your employer advertises and hires for the job you've been provided and eventually determines (in good faith) that there are no competent U.S. employees offered and ready to take the job.
- Your employer submits a PERM labor accreditation application online, utilizing the electronic USDOL Form 9089.
- You wait the numerous months that the DOL will take to adjudicate the PERM labor certification application, and mail the certified PERM application to your company (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 submits a petition using Form I-140, provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
- After USCIS authorizes the petition, you wait up until a visa is available. It may be immediately offered, if the variety of people who applied in your category in that exact same year is less than the variety of visas readily available