Tag: Employment-based green card
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I-140 Lawyer Guide
Form I-140 sits at the center of most employment-based green card strategies. If you handle it well, you lock in a priority date, establish the correct category, and set up a clean path to the final step. If you handle it poorly, you can trigger a Request for Evidence (RFE), a denial, or a timing…
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EB-2 NIW Lawyer: National Interest Waiver Guide
Many employment-based green card cases depend on an employer sponsor. The EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) is different. It can let you pursue permanent residence without a job offer and without the PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) labor certification process, if you can prove your work merits a waiver and the evidence supports it. An…
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PERM Lawyer: Labor Certification Steps and Recruitment Rules
If your employer is sponsoring you for an employment-based green card, the first real step is often the PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) process. PERM is the U.S. Department of Labor’s labor certification system. It is designed to confirm that there are no able, willing, qualified, and available U.S. workers for the role at the…