Labor Certification

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Labor Certification is the first step in the second (EB-2) and third (EB-3) preference employment-based immigration ("green card")  categories.  Essentially, at this stage of the employment-based  green card proceedings the U.S. employer must test the local labor market and prove to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that there are not sufficient workers able, wiling and qualified for the position that they wish to sponsor a foreign national for. The U.S. employer must also prove that employment of the foreign national will not adversly affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers. The method currently used by the DOL to certify labor certifications is  PERM (Program Electronic Review Management System).

Click on the links below to find out more about PERM and the labor certification related services  that the MVP Law Group offers.

Maryland Immigration Law Blog: Labor Certification