PERM is the first step for securing a green card. Google paused applications in 2023. Google has informed its employees that it plans to scale up PERM applications in 2026, a key step that helps ...

Apple Inc. (Apple) agreed to pay $25 million toward a civil penalty and a back-pay fund to compensate certain individuals who were allegedly discriminated against in Apple’s Program Electronic Review ...

In April 2023, the long-anticipated new and modernized PERM Form 9089 was introduced to the public by the U.S. Department of Labor, Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) unit. The PERM process permits an ...

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 ...

An employer in the US must obtain an approved labour certification from the US Department of Labor (DOL) before they can file a green card petition for a foreign worker with the US Citizenship and ...

PHOENIX, Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New Frontier Immigration Law is drawing attention to a lesser-known immigration process that may help address staffing shortages in the public sector. The ...

In recent months there have been discussions regarding layoffs in the tech industry. Despite an overall low unemployment rate, a recent Nerd Wallet article cited layoffs at 794 companies in 2023 alone ...

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 ...