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Editor's Comments to PERM Rule: Joel Stewart has updated comments that appeared in the first edition. These comments offer a historical perspective to the Rule.
FAQ's: Fact, Fiction or Law?: The FAQ's will appear in their entirety with an index to the corresponding section of the Rule and an article about whether, in the wake of Health America, DOL Operating Instructions now have the weight of law.
SWA Practice: A portion of the PERM BOOK II will include a report on each of the State Workforce Agencies, including assistance in preparing applications for Prevailing Wage Determinations and placement of 30-Day Job Orders. Every state and jurisdiction will be included, with examples of SWA Forms, names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mails of contact personnel, and practical tips for practitioners.
Roadmaps and Checklists: A special section called "Roadmaps and Checklists" serves as a complete how-to PERM Guide for practitioners and includes caveats and practice tips for everything in PERM.
BALCA Review: Systematic BALCA Case Summaries will be provided for each and every BALCA Case issued for PERM, including comparisons of PERM issues with similar pre-PERM BALCA decisions.
PERM BALCA DESKBOOK: A new PERM BALCA Deskbook will be launched as part of the PERM BOOK II. The Deskbook serves as an important tool for the now-developing PERM caselaw from BALCA.
Prevailing Wage Collection: The PERM BOOK II includes a separate section with a detailed and comprehensive treatment of all Prevailing Wage procedures, forms, rules, FAQ's, worksheets and practice tips.
Federal Litigation Guide: A new how-to section guides practitioners through Federal Court Litigation with sample pleadings, explanation of rules, and practice tips.
Immediate Access to All PERM Materials: The PERM BOOK II includes an extensive an exhausitve body of materials, including the PERM Regulation, the FAQ's, Stakeholder Reports, Commentaries on Liaison Meetings, Federal Register Announcements, Regulations for BALCA Hearing Procedures (29 CFR 18), Appendix A for Professional Recruitment, Full SOC in Alphabetical and Numerical Orders, DOL Addresses and Jurisdictions, State Work Force Agency Forms for Prevailing Wage and 30-Day Job Orders, Form 9089 Old and New, North America Industry Classification System Database (NAICS), Stratifying Occupational Units by Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) by the National Center for O*NET Development Employment Security Commission, SVP Excerpts from "The Handbook for Analyzing Jobs," Background on Development of Appendix A for Professional Recruitment Occupations from Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2005 OES Wage Data, Articles by Writers (See List Below):
Joel Stewart practices exclusively in the area of immigration law. Mr. Stewart specialized in Romance and Slavic Linguistics before receiving a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Russian. He is Past President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is a nationally recognized authority on employment-based immigration matters as well as a popular speaker at immigration seminars for national and local bar associations throughout the United States. Mr. Stewart is the editor of The Perm Book, the definitive authority on the subject of PERM processing of labor certifications, and the editor/author of The Perm Quarterly, a professional journal that compiles and develops updated information on PERM for attorneys and employers. Mr. Stewart has been writing the BALCA Case Summaries for AILA and Immigration Law Today since 1987 and authors official AILA articles and publications such as the Visa Processing Guide for Procedures at U.S. Consulates and Embassies in Brazil and Portugal. Mr. Stewart writes weekly newspaper columns for the Brazilian Times and the Brazilian Paper and presents a weekly radio program in Portuguese on Radio Brazil. In addition to supervising an exchange program for foreign law students to work and study in the U.S., Mr. Stewart has also lectured at the University of Law in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and heads the immigration committee for the Dade County Bar Association in Miami, Florida.
Chris Allen is a managing attorney and co-founder of Ellis Porter with over fifteen years of experience practicing immigration law. Prior to forming Ellis Porter, Mr. Allen managed a successful immigration practice specializing in corporate immigration law, and also directed the immigration department for one of the largest law firms in Michigan. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”) and has served as the Department of Labor Liaison for the Michigan AILA Chapter. He also previously served several years as the Michigan AILA Chapter Treasurer. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan International Law Committee and the Oakland County Bar Association Immigration Law Committee. Mr. Allen is also an Adjunct Professor at Oakland University, where he teaches Immigration Law for the Legal Assistant Program. He has been named to The Best Lawyers in America list since 2006, in recognition of his expertise in immigration law."
Davis C. Bae is the founder and managing attorney of The Bae Law Group. Mr. Bae's practice focuses on comprehensive immigration planning for multinational and fast growth corporations. He has established corporate immigration policies, consulted on mergers and acquisitions, and developed recruiting plans for companies throughout the United States. In addition, Mr. Bae actively promotes employer interests through advocacy efforts before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, and Congress. Mr. Bae regularly speaks to professional associations and companies on a variety of immigration issues including corporate changes, human resources, legal advocacy, foreign recruitment, and employee retention. He has published numerous articles addressing a variety of business immigration topics. Mr. Bae is also an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. His achievements have been recognized by government agencies, lawyers associations and business organizations. Mr. Bae was born in Busan, South Korea and immigrated to the United States in 1971.
Susan L. Brady is an associate attorney with Tindall & Foster, PC in Houston, TX. Ms. Brady received a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and History from Loyola University in New Orleans, a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (with focus on Brazilian history) from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and a law degree from the University of Houston in 2005. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and proficient in French. While a law student, Ms. Brady was a Senior Articles Editor for the Houston Journal of International Law and she published “Female Troubles”: The Plight of Foreign Household Workers Pursuing Lawful Permanent Residency through Employment-Based Immigration. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is a frequent speaker at immigration conferences. Her practice is concentrated in the areas of employment- and family-based immigration.
J. Ira Burkemper is an associate attorney with the global immigration law firm, Fragomen, DelRey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, resident in its Irvine, CA office. He is a graduate of Tufts University (B.A., 1985); Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (M.I.M.,1987) and University of Southern California (J.D., 1994). Mr. Burkemper was admitted to the California State Bar in 1994 and the U.S. District Court, Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in 1995. Mr. Burkemper is a also a member of the Orange County Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He is fluent in German.
Susan J. Cohen is founder and chairman of Mintz Levin's immigration section and a member of Mintz Levin's Boston office. Susan is actively involved in AILA and has chaired and co-chaired a wide range of national AILA committees. Susan serves as Vice Chair of the immigration subcommittee of the ABA's section of International Law and Practice and publishes the ABA's electronic immigration and nationality committee newsletter. Susan serves as the ABA's liaison to the Department of Labor on immigration-related issues. She is a past chair of the immigration committee of the International Section of the Boston Bar Association. Susan is a frequent panelist at AILA, ABA, and other immigration-related conferences and contributor to AILA, ABA, and other immigration-related publications. She also was involved in contributing to the USCIS regulations implementing the Immigration Act of 1990, to the Department of Labor regulations implementing changes to the H-1B visa category as a result of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998, and to the Department of Labor PERM labor certification regulations issued in 2004.
Christina LaBrie as an associate in the legal practice group at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP. Prior to joining Fragomen, Christina practiced immigration law with several law firms in New York. Her experience covers the universe of immigration practice, from asylum and deportation cases to complex business immigration matters. Christina received a B.A. in Political Science with high honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996. In 2000, she obtained her J.D. degree from NYU School of Law. Christina has served as Secretary of the New York City Bar Association's Immigration Committee and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She has published numerous articles with various immigration-related publications and organizations.
David Lazaar is a paralegal with Wildes & Weinberg, PC, in New York City, a position he has held for nearly 20 years. Mr. Lazaar specializes in labor certification processing and its impact on nonimmigrant visa immigration status. Prior to his current position, he worked with the New York State Department of Labor for ten years, where he specialized in Labor Certification processing. He has lectured at the Manhattan Paralegal Association and served on the faculty of the Practising Law Institute where he authored an article on labor certifications. He holds a bachelor's degree from The City College of New York.
Katherine Lopez Ley is a senior associate attorney with The Bae Law Group. Her practice focuses on labor certifications and related immigrant petitions, but encompasses both employment-based and family-based lawful permanent residence as well as K visas and naturalization applications. Ms. Lopez Ley is a graduate of The College of Idaho (previously Albertson College of Idaho) and received her J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Margaret McCormick has practiced exclusively in the field of U.S. immigration law, particularly business immigration since 1978. She was the national President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (1997-98) and served as President of the American Immigration Law Foundation (1999-2003). Since 1986, she has been an adjunct professor of immigration law at Loyola University School of Law. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Federal Bar Association (Chicago Chapter) and the national American Refugee Committee. She has testified in the U.S. Senate on problems with processing and has appeared as an immigration law expert in U.S. court proceedings. She has served on immigration and citizenship councils for the city of Chicago and has chaired many immigration law committees and programs. Ms. McCormick is included in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers with a rating of AV by the Martindale-Hubbel Law Directory, has been listed in Woodward/White's Best Lawyers in America since 1992, is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network Advisory Board and was recently named a SuperLawyer in Illinois. She is a graduate of De Paul University Law School and Loyola University in Chicago (Mundelein College).
Cyrus D. Mehta is the founder and managing attorney of Cyrus D. Mehta & Associates, PLLC (CDMA). He represents corporations and individuals from around the world in a various immigration matters. Based on 16 years of experience in immigration law, he is able to comprehend all kinds of problems and provide effective, ethical and strategic solutions to his clients. Mr. Mehta continues to be included in Chambers USA 2007, International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2007 and receive an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. He is also a fellow of the Academy of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), who have been recognized internationally in the field of business immigration, and are committed to the highest standards of professionalism. Mr. Mehta was the Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association (2003-2007). He is also the former Chair (2000-2003) of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the same Association. He was also a Trustee of the Association's City Bar Justice Center, which organizes attorneys' pro bono activities in New York City (2001-2007). He has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of Volunteers of Legal Services, Inc. Between 2004 and 2006, Mr. Mehta was the Chairman of the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF).
Lori S. Melton has practiced exclusively in the area of immigration law since 1998. Most recently, she was a senior associate with Littler Global before joining Fragomen's Phoenix, AZ office in 2008. Lori has extensive experience in business immigration as well as family-based immigration and asylum law. She has represented Fortune 500 clients from the software, retail, semiconductor, telecommunications, financial, hospitality, education, and healthcare industries. Ms. Melton is a frequent author and speaker on a variety of immigration law topics with a focus on the PERM process.
David H. Nachman was born in New York and is a lifetime resident of New Jersey. Following his admission to practice, Mr. Nachman was employed for three years with one of New Jersey's largest law firms in Newark, New Jersey, in Corporate/Business Law Department. Here, Mr. Nachman assisted with general corporate compliance and commercial litigation. Mr. Nachman is a member of the Bar of Bergen County, the State of New Jersey, the United States Court of International Trade, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Nachman serves as Secretary of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (“AILA”), and serves as an active member and a mentor to national AILA members on various topics. Mr. Nachman serves as an Adjunct Professor of Paralegal Studies at Farleigh Dickinson University and at Bergen Community College where he has been teaching Immigration and Nationality Law in the Paralegal Studies Program for a decade. He has presented CLE Programs for organizations such as NJICLE, CELESQ, Sterling Educational Services, Lorman Educational Services and to employers throughout NJ and Nationwide in connection with a Federal Grant awarded to Nachman & Associates, P.C. (in FY 2008) by DOJ, Office of Special Counsel for Unfair Immigration-related Employment Practices (“OSC”).
Sherry Neal, a partner since 2004, has been an immigration attorney with Hammond Law Group since 1995. She handles all types of immigration cases, advising corporations and individuals on immigration law issues. She holds several leadership positions including Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), member of the Board of Governors of AILA, and a member of the Healthcare Committee of AILA. She has written many articles on immigration law that have appeared in local, national and international books and magazines. She is a frequent speaker at conferences for legal bar associations, trade organizations and employment groups.
David B. Pakula is a solo practitioner in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Mr. Pakula received a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1982, a J.D. from Nova University Law School in 1987 and an LL.M. from University of Miami School of Law in 1988. He has wide-ranging experience in the fields of immigration law and litigation. Board certified in appellate practice by the Florida Bar since 1997, Mr. Pakula is a seasoned appellate practitioner, having handled over 200 state court, federal court and administrative appeals. In the area of immigration law, he has handled removal and asylum cases, BIA and AAO appeals, and federal court review of administrative immigration decisions in several U.S. District Courts and U.S. Courts of Appeal throughout the United States. Mr. Pakula has authored articles on immigration law and litigation for Interpreter Releases, The Florida Bar Journal and Florida Defender, a publication of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is the winner of the 2002 Amicus Award of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association.
Rebecca L. Sigmund is a partner and manager of Powell Goldstein LLP's immigration team. She advises companies on immigration alternatives for prospective employees as well as matters relating to employment eligibility and verification of workers. Ms. Sigmund speaks and writes regularly on immigration law topics for a variety of professional, business and civic groups and served as a past president of the Georgia Chapter, the Board of Governors and various national committees of the AILA. Ms. Sigmund also has an active pro bono practice representing immigrant survivors of domestic violence, trafficking and other violent crimes. She was the recipient of the 2006 S. Phillip Heiner Award presented by the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation for community pro bono services as well as the recipient of the 2006-07 Powell Goldstein, LLP pro bono award. Ranked as a Georgia mmigration notable practitioner in the 2007 Chambers USA rankings (Band 2), Ms. Sigmund is listed as one of Georgia's Super Lawyers.
Rohit Turkhud is a partner at Nallaseth & Turkhud, PLLC specializing in the practice of the US Immigration and Nationality Laws since 1985. He is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Law School, the Government Law College in Mumbai, India, and the Sydenham College, Mumbai, India. In addition to enjoying the benefits of a law partnership, Rohit worked for over 7 years in senior executive positions at IT companies and headed their legal and international recruiting divisions. He has authored a frequent immigration law column for India Today's North American edition. He is a member of the New York State Bar; the New York County Lawyer's Association; and AILA. Currently, he serves on AILA, New York Chapter's Department of Labor Liaison, and the Corporate Practice Committees. On alternate Thursdays, Rohit hosts a prime time live immigration show on a cable network channel.
Alison Walters is formerly a senior paralegal with the Law Offices of Carl Shusterman where she held the position for over seven years. Ms. Walters specializes in labor certification applications as well as all aspects of employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant visa processing. She has over 15 years experience in the field. Ms. Walters has been a frequent contributor to Mr. Shusterman's Immigration newsletter as well as a panelist at the 2006 AILA Conference. Ms. Walters holds a Certificate in Management from the Open University, UK and a BSc. (Hons) Linguistic and International Studies (Russian and Swedish) from Surrey University, UK.
Edwin R. Rubin's practice for the past 34 years has focused on immigration and nationality law with special emphasis on corporate and employment based immigration matters. He served as National President of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) in 1990-91 and has been a member of AILA's Board of Governors since 1982. He served as AILA Chapter Chair in both Philadelphia and New Jersey. Mr. Rubin was Vice President of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, Inc, 2002-2006 and is currently a Trustee. He was Senior Editor of and Contributing Author to, "Immigration & Nationality Law," AILA, (two volumes annually), 1985-1990. He was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor to serve as one of the sixteen members of the Federal Advisory Committee on the Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989. He is recipient of the of 1993 AILA's Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Advancing the Administrative Practice of Immigration Law the 2001 AILA Mentor Award. He established the AILA Mentor program during his term as AILA President. He is listed in the "Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers", "Best Lawyers in America", "An International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers".Nathan A. Waxman served as expert witness before the Board of Alien Certification Appeals and the Executive Office of Immigration Review on labor certification and employment-based immigration matters. He has served on numerous local and national AILA committees and has participated in the drafting and submission of comments to the Department of Labor and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, in response to proposed rulemaking regarding key issues in employment-based immigration law. He has been the author of numerous articles on topics ranging from the National Interest Waiver through H-1 portability and cap issues to the representation of alternative health care practitioners. He has served on AILA's New Ideas Committee and is Adjunct Professor of Business Immigration at the School of Professional Studies, City University of New York.
Mitchell L. Wexler is a partner with global immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, resident in its Irvine, CA office. He is a graduate of Hofstra University (B.A., 1982), and Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1985). In addition to being an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), he currently serves as a national mentor on Labor Certifications. Mr. Wexler is a past Chair of AILA's Southern California chapter. He is also a past Vice Chair and a Commissioner of the State Bar of California's Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Committee and is a former Trustee for the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF). Mr. Wexler is certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, certified by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. He has written in excess of 200 published articles on United States immigration/visa related topics. He also presents and lectures extensively to seminar groups in the United States and abroad.
Leon Wildes, senior partner and founder of Wildes & Weinberg, PC, has practiced immigration law for almost 50 years. Mr. Wildes holds J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the New York University School of Law and serves for the past 29 years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he teaches immigration law. A past national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, he regularly publishes scholarly articles in the field and lectures widely to practitioners. He has testified before the U.S. Congress as an expert in immigration matters, and was awarded the Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Immigration Law. He is best known for his successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono, in deportation proceedings.
Ludmila Zimovcak is a Slovakian attorney who is currently working as a law clerk at Nachman & Associates, P.C. Ludmila was born in Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia) and is fluent in Slovak and Czech languages. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Comenius University, one of the most prestigious law schools in Slovakia, with a Master’s of Law Degree and was awarded the Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Sofia Zneimer practices in the area of business immigration and litigation and has represented multi-national corporations, individual investors, hospitals, non-profit organizations and business entities before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and the State Department. She also litigates before the Illinois courts and the Northern District of Illinois. Before joining Zneimer & Zneimer, P.C., she worked as an immigration attorney for a national law firm. Before this she was the Immigration Specialist of a Fortune 500 Company for several years where she managed the processing of all immigrant and non-immigrant employment-based visas, intra-company transfers, I-9 compliance, as well as the company's relationship with outside immigration counsel.
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