CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Children’s Mental Health and Child Welfare Agency
BENEFICIARY: Taiwanese Outpatient Services Clinician
LOCATION: Columbus, OH
Our client is a comprehensive children’s mental health and child welfare agency which was willing to petition for an Outpatient Services Clinician position for a second-preference petition (I-140). Our client’s employee has a master’s degree in Social Administration and is currently working for them under H-1B status. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that this employer can petition her as an Outpatient Services Clinician. Second preference petitions for Taiwanese people 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 educational, professional and working backgrounds, our office determined that she is clearly eligible for EB-2 classification for her I-140 petition. Our client eventually retained us on November 2, 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 November 8, 2016, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained determined prevailing wage, our office filed the job order on February 16, 2017. On July 14, 2017, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on December 4, 2017, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Taiwanese beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.