It’s about time. We all know that immigration attorneys are making huge bucks processing guest worker Visas and working every loophole for businesses. Why on Google ads, which places automatically content appropriate ads onto your blog, I have banned hundreds of immigration law firm advertisers peddling their wares on how to not hire an American. Obviously corporations are more than willing to pay huge attorney fees to skirt the law instead of using that money to hire entire divisions of American engineers. Well, finally, the DOL is actually auditing one of these firms.
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that it has begun auditing all permanent labor certification applications filed by attorneys at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. The department has information indicating that in at least some cases the firm improperly instructed clients who filed permanent labor certification applications to contact their attorney before hiring apparently qualified U.S. workers. The audits will determine which, if any, applications should be denied or placed into department-supervised recruitment because of improper attorney involvement in the consideration of U.S. worker applicants
Additionally the DOL said, “The department’s regulations specifically prohibit an employer’s immigration attorney or agent from participating in…
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., by the Immigration Reform Law Institute and joined by The Programmers Guild and other groups, charges that the administration’s decision in April to extend the work period for students under the Optional Practical Training provision is little more than an effort to get around the H-1B cap limit
They did this with absolutely no legal basis,” said John Miano, founder of The Programmers Guild in Summit, N.J. He said the federal extension will hurt U.S. workers who are seeking job training because it will divert training resources to foreign workers. “We hear over and over again that U.S. workers do not have the skills to do the job,” he said.
Some of the occupational areas covered under the OPT program, believe it or not, are technician and web site design. Considering we have people paying less than minimum wage for these skills, does anyone believe there is a shortage or that magically that’s in depth scientific…
Why on Google ads, which places automatically content appropriate ads onto your blog, I have banned hundreds of immigration law firm advertisers peddling their wares on how to not hire an American. Obviously corporations are more than willing to pay huge attorney fees to skirt the law instead of using that money to hire entire divisions of American engineers. Well, finally, the DOL is actually auditing one of these firms.
