Sophie Alcorn, attorney, author and founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley, California, is an award-winning Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State ...

To hire a foreign worker on a permanent basis, the most common pathway for employers to sponsor an employee for a Green Card is through obtaining a permanent Labor Certification from the U.S.

The Perm Labor Certification process can be described as various pieces of a puzzle being identified and carefully positioned, with the end goal of forming a full picture in the smoothest and most ...

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that ...

PERM Program Changes—Well-Intended but Potential for Problems DOL issued proposed revisions back in 2020, and after the required notice and comment period during which the DOL accepted comments from ...

Google has informed employees that it will resume and significantly ramp up Green Card applications through the PERM process in 2026, ending a pause that has lasted nearly three years. The move marks ...

The EB-2 immigrant category remains one of the most important pathways to a U.S. green card for highly qualified professionals, including researchers, physicians, engineers, executives, analysts, ...