Posted on August 01, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
How Does Prevailing Wage Determination Affect Green card Application? In order to protect U.S. workers from unfair competition from foreign worker, the U.S. government requires any employer who wants to employ alien workers to pay the alien workers the prevailing wage as the minimum. Specifically, the prevailing wage is the average wage paid to similarly… Read More
Posted on July 25, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Effects of Substitution of Employer upon Labor Certification In today’s fast-paced economy, change of ownership of companies is pretty common through mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions. However, the immigration consequences of such occurrences and transactions are often complicated and confusing. We often receive calls from clients asking how the change of ownership of companies… Read More
Posted on July 18, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Green Card Application for Spouses and Fiances of US Citizens Mr. Wang asked: I am an American citizen, and I have a girlfriend in China. We have known each other for quite a while and we are getting along pretty well. We plan to get married, and I want to bring her to the United… Read More
Posted on July 11, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Effects of the Senate Bill on Family-based Immigration The family-based immigration is the greatest category in the U.S. immigration and it is designed to help the family members to reunite with one another. Just as the problems of employment-based immigration and illegal immigrants, the problems of family-based immigration could also have significant effects on the… Read More
Posted on July 04, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Effects of the Senate Bill on Illegal Immigrants According to official statistics of the U.S. government, the illegal immigrants in the U.S. is around 13 millions, but the number would be far greater in reality as the number has been increasing at the speed of 20% annually. Due to the significant impact of illegal immigrants… Read More
Posted on June 26, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
The Effect of the Senate Bill on Employment-Based Immigration Recently, the Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 which could benefit a lot of people including both legal and illegal immigrants. The employment-based immigration is the largest category of the U.S. immigration other than the family-based immigration. It is the most important category… Read More
Posted on June 12, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Labor Certification Filed Prior to the PERM System Mr. Park asked: My employer has filed an application for labor certification for me under the old system in March 2004. My attorney says my application is still pending, while my friends are telling me their applications filed under the new PERM system this year have been… Read More
Posted on June 05, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Is Labor Certification Necessary? Labor Certification vs. Work Permit There are relatively few ways for an alien to immigrate and remain permanently in the United States. If the foreigner does not have any close lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizen relatives, has not received refugee or political asylum status, or does not have enough money… Read More
Posted on May 30, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
Effect of Immigration Reform on Legal Immigrants Currently, the debate regarding immigration reform in the Congress and the public opinions focuses upon the issue of illegal immigrants. There are two reasons for this: one is the large number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. whose influence on national security cannot be neglected; the other is… Read More
Posted on May 23, 2006 by Warren Wen | Category: Immigration
How U.S. Immigration Law Defines “Children” for Step-Children of U.S. Citizens Under the U.S. immigration law, a “child” is generally defined as an unmarried person under twenty-one years of age. Nevertheless, in some situations, the term ‘child’ is defined differently, and this can lead to serious consequences if petitioners do not have a correct understanding… Read More