US Labor Department Plans to Overhaul PERM Green Card Labor Certification Process
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Jay-Anne B. Casuga, Andrew Kreighbaum
Summary
The US Department of Labor plans to overhaul the PERM (permanent labor certification) process, which is the labor market test businesses must pass before sponsoring a foreign worker for a green card. This is part of the Trump administration's broader rulemaking blueprint and crackdown on perceived abuses of the H-1B visa program. The administration has already reformed the H-1B visa lottery and proposed increasing wage floors for H-1B workers.
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That permanent labor certification, or PERM, process has come under major scrutiny from the government as part of a crackdown on what it sees as abuses of the H-1B specialty occupation visa program
The administration has overhauled the annual lottery to award visas, and the DOL has issued draft regulations to significantly increase wage floors for H-1B workers
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