CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Korean Church
BENEFICIARY: Korean Education Pastor
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
Our client is a Korean church in Cleveland, Ohio which was willing to petition for an Education Pastor position for a Korean, second-preference category for the I-140. Our client’s prospective employee has a master’s degree in Divinity. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that this employer can petition him as an Education Pastor. 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 prospective employee’s education, professional and work background, our office determined that he is clearly eligible for EB-2 classification. Our client eventually retained us in October 2015.
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 PERM could be filed at least 60 days from the job posting date or 30 days from the last ad. On October 6, 2015, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained a foreign degree evaluation report, our office filed the job order on January 12, 2016. On April 8, 2016, we filed PERM. Eventually, on July 19, 2016, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Korean beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.