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PERM For Experts
PERM For Experts is a 3-part telephone seminar featuring Michelle Funk,
Pamela Genise, Sheela Murthy, Devang M. Shah and other speakers to be
announced (Aron Finkelstein, discussion leader). The curriculum is as
follows:
FIRST Phone Session on March 11: ETA-9089 Denials
- Denials based on two types of errors
- DOL errors
- Error on form
- Typographical error (non-substantive)
- Transposing date/s of advertisements
- Transposing wage information: $50,000/year -> $50,000/hour
- Mistake / Omission (substantive)
- Failure to check "yes" to H.8 (Is alternate combination of education /
experience acceptable)
- Failure to include "magic" language ("any suitable combination of
education, training or experience is acceptable")
- Requests for Reconsideration
- DOL error v. Mistake / omission
- How to request reconsideration
- Reconsideration Processing Time/s
- The general processing timeframe for reconsideration requests
- Is expedited processing available for DOL error-based denials?
- Is this available for employer / representative errors (mistakes /
omissions)?
- Withdrawal/s
- When is withdrawal permitted?
- When is withdrawal done?
- Strategies for appropriate timing of withdrawals
SECOND Phone Session on April 1: Drafting a Proper ETA-9089
- Foreign degree equivalencies (3-year Indian degrees)
- Using the "magic" language
- Flexible minimum requirements
- Anticipating business necessity
- Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP)
- Job Zone/s
- Wage issues
- Wage ranges
- Is the SWA reliable
- Using Level I/II/III/IV if worksheet differs
- Does safe harbor exist
- Alternate wage surveys
- PERM regulations/ FAQs: liberal v. conservative
- Is GAL 2-98 still relevant
THIRD Phone Session on May 6: Predictions for the Future
- Using the new form
- Advanced form changes and implementation
- Incorporating "magic" language
- Auditing compliance files
- Close of businesses
- Filing PERM in a bad economy
- Potential for more supervised recruitment
- Second audits requesting resumes
- Potential delays in DOL processing times
- Change/s in circumstances
- Company merger/s
- Position/s open at time of filing but closed at time of audit /
decision
- Unanticipated work location/s v. client-site/s
- Change of work location/s
- When to expect things to begin moving again
Don't wait to register, Tuesday, March 10th is the deadline. For more info,
including speaker bios, detailed curriculum, and
registration information, please see: Online: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/200907.shtm.
Fax form: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/200907.pdf.
Articles
Current Trends In The Adjudication Of Waivers Of The Foreign Residence Requirement Under INA Section 212(e) On The Grounds Of "Exceptional Hardship" To A U.S. Citizen Family Member
Robb Pearson writes "My own recent experience of sudden economic loss and resulting hardship humbled me in ways I could never have
anticipated."
Is There A Duty To Propose Legal Process Outsourcing?
Mark Ross writes "Taking into consideration the debate I reference above from the ACI conference, I wonder if we are closer to reaching that "tipping point" day."
Immigrants Of The Week: Paul Deba Mango and Alan Cumming
Greg Siskind celebrates the achievements of these immigrants.
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News
Neufeld Memo On P-1 Athletes
USCIS Acting Associate Director, Domestic Operations issued a
memo providing USCIS personnel with instructions for applying the
period of authorized stay for P-1 non-immigrant individual athletes.
Classifieds
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Headlines
Our View: Good Time To Keep Illegal Immigration Rates Down
On two separate days during the month of December, the U.S.
Border Patrol made no apprehensions of illegal immigrants
attempting to cross the border from Mexico to the United States.
Eva Longoria Vows to Protect Mexican Immigration
Eva Longoria wants our new president to address immigration and
she’s ready to stand up and fight for her homeland of Mexico.
Should Local Police Add Immigration Beat?
A provision which allows state and local government agencies to
enforce federal immigration laws continues to draw scrutiny.
Myrick Defends Jail Immigration Plan
State and local leaders who implemented a federal program in
Mecklenburg County that identifies jailed illegal immigrants
rushed to its defense Monday after a congressional report
criticized it for targeting minor offenders instead of the
serious criminals it was designed to catch
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Letters
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Dear Editor:
he 03/10/2009 ID was a bonus day for opinions from both sides of
the issues, running the gambit between contemplative, naive,
simplistic and innocently brilliant, my letter excepted of
course. Merrill Clark's letter has a good idea, but it will never
happen. Having been through the last Amnesty, I forsee any sequel
to be a sheer disaster in its administration, even if they pass
good law, which is doubtful. John E. Shorkey's letter is correct
about the ridiculously high hardship standard for cancellation
and points out that the cancellation candidate can get an EAD and
thereby a Social Security Card and Driver's License -great
documents to have - to use now and after they are deported and
return over the fence. Neat trick.Why didn't I think of that? I
don't understand Honza Prchal's letter's proposal to lower
investment visas to $50,000. That sum is just barely more than a
well-equipped SUV, let alone sufficient investment in a business.
Why not just open the doors to all? We know why. Obviously, while
one is entitled to one's opinion, Sergei Sheplov's letter
indicates a lack of understanding of the reality of immigration
law. In my 30 years practicing immigration law, I have seen few
who leave their families behind. And as to the US citizen
children of illegals being "victims", hogwash. They are citizens
by fluke of law, but they are still their parents' children and
the law confers no immigration benefit until age 21. Cornelio
Bolayog, in his zeal to champion the downtrodden, misses the need
for a rule of law. Chia-Li Sung's letter is a beautiful breath of
fresh air in this dismal world of immigration debate, it simply
hits the nail right on the head. Wonderful, yet innocent honesty.
Thank you Chia-Li.
David D. Murray, Esq.
Newport Beach, CA
Dear Editor:
Chia-li Sung's letter (ID/03/10) is so full of venom that my
first impression was that it had reached a new low in the fine
art of anti-immigrant hatred. The letter's blatant anti-Latino
bigotry even manages to make Jim Roberts' letters seem like
immigrant rights advocacy by comparison. But somehow, there seems
to be a familiar note in this letter, a voice dredged up from an
American past that we would all prefer to forget. Then I
realized: The letter sounds almost exactly like the kind of
racist poison that was so common against Chinese immigrants 100
years ago.
Roger Algase, Esq.
New York, NY
Dear Editor:
The letters of David Murray have a problem with the valid,
supported and worthy of consideration opinion of others and has
frequently gone on tirades against letters of various writers,
now including my own (3/10/09 ID). The elitist DM letter is not
the judge of what is "credible" and what is not, but for each
reader to consider. The DM letter calls to: "stop the nonsense"
and asks: "what can be done to make it better?", but offers only
the former with none of the latter, rather than reasoned
comments. How does any of this or the criticism of J.R.
Dieckmann's letter promote rational discussion? It was a R.
Algase letter that first brought up the topic of the elgibility
of BO which my letters then commented on. I don't consider my
letter's promotion of specific immigration solutions to be
"outrageous claims" or "digressing into irrelevant fringe issues"
when my letters support more enforcement, tighter borders, better
visa tracking without waivers, no illegals, lower entry numbers,
or no birthright citizenship for illegals. I am perplexed that
anyone would be so obtuse as to not recognize these as valid,
sincere solutions. And it is the macro solutions that are needed,
not the tedious micro adjustments that do little which is like
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (or inviting too many
on board as in CIR). It is hypocritical for the letter to engage
in such an attack when it has frequently condemned such in this
forum.
Jim Roberts
Dear Editor:
Ms. Chia's letter (03/09/09 ID) is a snub on the entire Latinos'
community and all poor immigrants and Americans in general, and
forgetting that most if not all previous immigrants were not as
rich or educated as Ms. Chia's parents or ancestors coming from
Taiwan to the US. Poor people live in the ghettos, be them white,
Asians, Latinos, African Americans or immigrants etc. As a
reminder, New York city has some messy "Chinatowns" as well,
where newly arrived Chinese immigrants, legally or illegally
trying to make better living and living in cramped "ghettos" like
in Flushing, Brooklyn and elsewhere. It's a shame that some more
established Asian Americans have some snobbish attitudes and
believe in prejudice, nativism, global economy apartheid and
protectionism and calling on enforcing harsh immigration laws
while in fact many of these rich Taiwanese and Chinese Americans
are employing illegal nannies, waiters, cooks etc and know their
good friends employ them as well just like hypocrite Republican
Tancredo and Mitt Romney knew that the sub contractors they hired
to remodel their mansions and landscaping their lawns employed
illegal immigrants as well but they shut their mouth and pretend
nothing happened. It's time for us to call to give these human
beings we call as "illegal" and even "parasites of the society" a
dignity and legal status to enable them to pursue American dreams
and fair shot to climb higher steps in their economy status by
opportunities for them and their children to pursue higher
education, to get better jobs and wages and to open businesses
and yes to buy homes that they can stay without fear of
deportation.
Robert Yang
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