CASE: I-140 / I-907 (Premium Processing)
ISSUE: Had to get the I-140 Approved to Be Eligible for 3-Yr H-1B Extension
EMPLOYER: Electric Immersion Heater Manufacturer
BENEFICIARY: Indian Management Analyst
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
Our client is a management analyst from India, who is currently working at an electric immersion heater manufacturing company in Cleveland Ohio. The company was willing to do an immigration petition him for a second-preference petition (I-140). He is on his sixth year of H-1B, and to extend it for another three years, he’s had to have an I-140 approval before his current H-1B expires.
Our client has an MBA degree and has worked for this company since April 2012. He has maintained his status as an H-1B visa holder in the United States.
After talking to our client, our firm advised that his potential employer can petition him as a Management Analyst. It is a Job Zone 4 position, which typically does not merit an EB2 finding by the Department of Labor, but we thought the position was complex enough to merit an argument. Based on our client’s educational, professional and working background as an engineer and management analyst, our office determined that it’s still worth a shot for the EB-2 classification.
As mentioned on our previous success story, we filed the PERM labor certification application for our client on June 29, 2012. Two months later, on August 30, 2012, the PERM labor certification was approved. Our client retained us again for the I-140 petition.
We then proceeded with the I-140 Petition filing.
We submitted the “ability to pay” letter for the I-140 petition application. We included the job offer letter, employment verification letters from our client’s previous employers, and other necessary supporting documents.
The I-140 Petition was filed on September 24, 2012 via premium processing. On October 1, 2012, in only seven days, the I-140 EB2 for our Indian client was approved.
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