CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Dental Group in Cleveland, OH
BENEFICIARY: Egyptian Periodontist
Our client is from Egypt, who is currently working in the United States as an associate periodontist under his OPT. His current employer as willing to do an immigration petition for him, second-preference. Our client has a dentistry degree in Egypt which is evaluated as an equivalent degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine degree the United States. He also has a license to practice dentistry in the state of Ohio and has 3 years of residency training in periodontics. After talking to our client, our firm concluded that his employer can petition him as an associate periodontist. Based on our client’s educational, professional and working backgrounds, our office determined that he is clearly eligible for EB-2 classification.
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 August 18, 2017, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained Prevailing Wage determination, our office filed the job order on November 1, 2017. On January 16, 2018, we promptly filed PERM. Eventually, on May 18, 2018, the PERM Labor Certification was approved – an EB2 position for the Egyptian beneficiary. Now our client can file the I-140 petition.