PERM Fiscal Year 2008 Statistics
The Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification has released its October 2007 – May 2008 statistics on PERM processing. It is interesting to note that 44% of the active (pending) PERM cases were in “Audit” stage, most likely in connection with the recent decision to audit all PERM applications filed by a major immigration law firm.
Among the other statistics are breakdown by state of intended employment (California is, not surprisingly, the largest); aliens’ countries of nationality (India is top); and top job titles (Computer Software Engineers are top).
Read the full report here.
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[...] The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification has released its October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008 (FY’08) statistics on PERM processing. Although these are statistical estimates and not official results, the numbers are expected to be very close to the final official numbers. We wrote about PERM’s FY’08 mid-year statistics in April. [...]