CASE: PERM Labor Certification
EMPLOYER: Public School District
BENEFICIARY: Filipina High School Math Teacher
LOCATION: New Town, ND
Our client has a previous employer who was willing to petition her for a third-preference petition (I-140). Our client holds a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education – Mathematics, a valid North Dakota Teaching license, and worked for her petitioner-employer until June 2023. Based on our client’s educational, professional, and work background, our office determined that she is clearly eligible for EB-3 classification for her I-140 petition. Our client eventually retained us in November 2022.
Prior to filing PERM, our firm prepared the prevailing wage request, job order, advertisements, internal job posting, recruitment report, and all other steps important for pre-PERM filing. Note that the PERM application could be filed at least 60 days from the job posting date or 30 days from the last advertisement. Within a week of our retention, the prevailing wage request was filed. After we obtained the PW determination, her employer filed the job order on July 24, 2023. On December 7, 2023, we promptly filed PERM.
Eventually, on May 22, 2025, the PERM Labor Certification was approved without any audit—an EB3 position for the Filipina beneficiary. Our client can file the I-140 petition at any time.