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PERM Process: Copies of Ads are OK!

By Joel Stewart

In the pre-PERM law (until March 28, 2005), the Department of Labor's regulations were very specific about photocopies of ads. No photocopies were accepted. Only originals tear sheets! Employers used to scramble around to find original ads to provide to DOL. Often they could not obtain them in time to respond to the 45-day letters requesting recruitment documentation. (In those days, the DOL would issue recruitment instructions, and employers had to see that copies of ads and the results of recruitment were provided to the local SWA in 45 days.) They actually had to arrive at the SWA within 45...

Full post as published by Joel Stewart's Blog on January 17, 2010 (boomark / email).