CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Consulting Company in New Jersey
BENEFICIARY: Indian Bioinformaticist
LOCATION: New Jersey
Our client is from India, who is currently working in the United States as a post doctorate researcher under H-1B status. He has a prospective employer who was willing to do an immigration petition for him, second-preference. Our client has a Master’s degree in Science (Plant Genetics). After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his employer can petition her as a Bioinformaticist. Based on our client’s educational, professional and working background, our office determined that he is clearly eligible for EB-2 classification.
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 August 7, 2015, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained foreign degree evaluation report and Prevailing Wage determination, our office filed the job order on October 19, 2015. On February 3, 2016, we filed PERM. Eventually, on June 3, 2016, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Indian beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.