DOS, Aug. 16, 2024 - "The State Department, working in close collaboration with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is pleased to announce the issuance of all legally available visas in the...
Adam Rosen writes: "I am excited to share a decision from DDC Judge AliKhan denying the government’s Motion to Dismiss a complaint challenging a 6C finding secretly made by DHS against my client...
W. John Yahya Vandenberg writes: "We just got this remand decision for a detained case in Houston (IJ McPhail), and thought it might be of interest to your readers. The Board clearly was not happy...
BIB Daily presents bimonthly PERM practice tips from Ron Wada , member of the Editorial Board for Bender’s Immigration Bulletin and author of the 10+ year series of BALCA review articles, “Shaping...
OFLC, Aug. 15, 2024 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has released a comprehensive set of public disclosure data (through the third quarter of fiscal year 2024) drawn from employer...
"The OFLC Audit Plan presents Audit and Supervised Recruitment Tiers which specify the types of cases that will be targeted for Audit Review and tagged for Supervised Recruitment. As the DOL has indicated, this plan is being released in response to a FOIA request. Past practice informs us that the DOL would certainly have preferred to continue keeping us in the dark. The plan is dated March 19, 2013 and there is no way to know whether these audit and Supervised Recruitment tiers remain active or whether new tiers have since been added. However, this information does reveal the DOL's thinking with respect to audits and Supervised Recruitment and helps shed some light on the reasons why certain PERM applications are selected." - Cora-Ann V. Pestaina, Feb. 10, 2014.