CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Taekwondo (Martial Arts) School
BENEFICIARY: Korean
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio
Our client is a former Taekwondo athlete, and currently studies in the United States. He has a Taekwondo school which was willing to petition him for a third-preference petition (I-140). Our client has a bachelor’s degree in a related field. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his potential employer can petition him as a Taekwondo Coach. Second preference petitions for Koreans are current, which means that if a PERM Labor Certification for a second preference position gets approved, the I-140 and I-485 could be filed simultaneously. Based on our client’s educational, professional and working background, our office determined that he is eligible for EB-3 classification for his I-140 petition. Our client eventually retained us on January 20, 2015.
Prior to filing PERM, our firm prepared the prevailing wage request, job order, advertisements, internal job posting, recruitment report, and all other steps which are important pre-PERM filing. Take note that PERM could be filed at least 60 days from the job posting date or 30 days from the last ad. On February 25, 2015, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained the foreign degree evaluation report, our office filed the job order on April 21, 2015. On July 15, 2015, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on January 19, 2016, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB3 position for the Korean beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.