CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Dental Group in Cleveland, OH
BENEFICIARY: Indian Endodontist
Our client is from India, who is currently working in the United States as an associate endodontist under her OPT. Her current employer is willing to do an immigration petition for her, second-preference. Our client has a dentistry degree in India which is evaluated as an equivalent degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery degree the United States. She also has a license to practice dentistry in the state of Ohio and has 2 years of residency training in endodontics. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that her employer can petition her as an associate endodontist. Based on our client’s educational, professional and working backgrounds, our office determined that she 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 23, 2017, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained Prevailing Wage determination, our office filed the job order on November 1, 2017. On February 6, 2018, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on June 11, 2018, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Indian beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.