CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Cosmetic Products Manufacturer
BENEFICIARY: Korean Cosmetic Product Plant Manager
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
Our client is currently working as a Cosmetic Product Plant Manager and his current employer as willing to petition him for a second-preference petition (I-140). Our client has a Bachelor of Science degree and has more than 5 years of experience as a Production Director. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his employer can petition him as a Cosmetic Product Plant Manager. Second preference petitions for Koreans are current, which means that if a PERM Labor Certification for a second preference position gets approved, the I-140 and I-485 could be filed simultaneously. Based on our client’s education and work background, our office determined that he is eligible for EB-2 classification for his I-140 petition. Our client eventually retained us on August 24, 2020.
Prior to filing PERM, our firm prepared the prevailing wage request, job order, advertisements, internal job posting, recruitment report, and all other steps which are important pre-PERM filing. Take note that the PERM application could be filed at least 60 days from the job posting date or 30 days from the last ad. Within a week from our retention, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained the foreign degree evaluation report, our office filed the job order on February 11, 2021. On April 19, 2021, we filed PERM.
Eventually, on August 31, 2021, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Korean beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140, I-485 green card application, and I-765 simultaneously.