CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Chinese Restaurant
BENEFICIARY: Chinese
LOCATION: Ohio
Our client is a Chinese restaurant in Ohio. They do have a prospective employee from China and they were willing to petition him for a skilled worker, third-preference petition (I-140). Their prospective employee has more than 2 years of experience as a Chinese cook. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that they can petition him as a Chinese Specialty Cook. Our client eventually retained us on September 29, 2016.
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, 2016, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we got the PW determination, our office filed the job order on January 24, 2017. On June 9, 2017, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on October 25, 2017, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB3 position for the Chinese beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.