PERM labor certification, for employers
Sponsorship that survives an audit.
Keep the people your business depends on. We design recruitment that meets Department of Labor requirements and holds up when it is examined.
Why employers retain us
The filing is the easy part. Surviving scrutiny is the work.
Audit resistance
Position descriptions and recruitment plans written to avoid the triggers that invite a Department of Labor audit, rather than hoping one does not arrive.
Retaining the employee
Filing before the fifth anniversary of H-1B status preserves extensions past the six-year limit under the 365-day rule. We track that date for every sponsored employee, because missing it is expensive and irreversible.
Off your HR team's desk
We run the advertising, the wage determinations and the recruitment logs. Your team supplies the role and the facts; the compliance work is ours.
The process
A three-step roadmap your HR team can put in front of leadership.
Each step has to be defensible on its own. The order is not a preference; a wage determination obtained late invalidates the recruitment run before it.
- 01
Prevailing wage determination
We obtain the wage floor from the Department of Labor first, because every later step and the whole recruitment design depend on it. Getting this wrong invalidates the work that follows.
- 02
Mandatory recruitment
The required test of the labour market, run and documented to the letter, with a recruitment log built to be read by an auditor rather than reconstructed after one asks.
- 03
ETA Form 9089
Electronic filing positioned to withstand audit and supervised recruitment, with the evidentiary file assembled before submission rather than in response to a notice.
Timing is the part employers most often get wrong. Filing PERM before an employee's fifth H-1B anniversary is what preserves extensions past the six-year limit, and that date does not move.
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