What is the Employment Permanent Residence Process?
Most individuals seeking lawful permanent residence—Green Card—in the United States through employment must first be the beneficiary of their employer’s or prospective employer’s Labor Certification Application to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Today, the DOL utilizes an electronic attestation-based Labor Certification system called the Program Electronic Review Management System (PERM). A PERM Labor Certification Application is submitted electronically by one’s employer or prospective employer to attest that the employer has been unable to recruit an able, willing, and qualified U.S. worker (US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident) for the position, skill level, and geographic area for which the employer is seeking permanent resident status on a foreign employee’s behalf. To establish that a U.S. worker is not available, the employer must follow a highly specific set of government-regulated recruitment efforts.
Most individuals seeking lawful permanent residence—Green Card—in the United States through employment must first be the beneficiary of their employer’s or prospective employer’s Labor Certification Application to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Today, the DOL utilizes an electronic attestation-based Labor Certification system called the Program Electronic Review Management System (PERM). A PERM Labor Certification Application is submitted electronically by one’s employer or prospective employer to attest that the employer has been unable to recruit an able, willing, and qualified U.S. worker (US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident) for the position, skill level, and geographic area for which the employer is seeking permanent resident status on a foreign employee’s behalf. To establish that a U.S. worker is not available, the employer must follow a highly specific set of government-regulated recruitment efforts. These recruitment efforts must clearly indicate that the hiring of a
