Bernard Wolfsdorf to Present at the AILA Asia-Pacific Chapter EB-5 Annual Conference

Green Card Processing Slow Down Ahead: What Companies Can Expect and How to Prepare

By Laura Bloniarz, Senior Associate, WR Immigration For the past two years, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services “USCIS” has issued a record number of employment-based green cards. What does the remainder of the government’s fiscal year hold for green card processing? On January 18th, WR Immigration is hosting a discussion to answer this question in detail, provide updated predictions, and analyze trends. Register Here Most commonly, the employment-based green card process starts with a company sponsoring a foreign national employee by filing a labor certification application (test of the U.S. labor market) and once the labor certification application is approved, the company then files an Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (Immigrant Petition). In some cases, if the offered position and foreign national both qualify, the company may skip the labor certification application step and immediately file an Immigrant Petition on behalf of the foreign national. Because the yearly number of sponsored foreign national employees from some countries continue to exceed the number of available green cards each year, there is a wait for some employment-based preference categories. It is important to note that an approved Immigrant Petition from a valid employer-based green card sponsorship does not mean that the sponsored foreign […]