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PERM: What are equivalent, alternate requirements?

By Js

I was listening to a tape from the DOL presentation to the national AILA Conference from 2010, and I began to sympathize with the difficulty the certifying officer may experience to make certain kinds of findings. For example, on the issue of identifying the equivalence of a Bachelor's Degree, the speaker stated that DOL has received PERM applications with a wide gamut of equivalencies. Employers have filled the alternate requirement (experience) box with one year, two years, three years, four years, etc., up to 12 years. Employers also sometimes stipulate a Bachelor's Degree equivalence to be a high school diploma,...

Full post as published by Joel Stewart's Blog on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).