The Office of Foreign Labor Certification reported in the recent stakeholder meeting that the audits and supervised recruitment would increase.
At the time of report, approximately 30% cases faced either audit and supervised recruitment.
In a number of cases, after receiving the responses to the audits, the agency has turned the cases into a supervised recruitment track in a number of cases.
This trend has resulted in a tremendous delay in PERM processing times and potential denials for the employers that have been picked for such audits and supervised recruitment.
A large number of denials have been produced for failure to justify why the unqualified U.S. workers were not offered an on-the-job-training when arguably such on-the-job-training would make such unqualified workers qualified for the job.
Another included missing of information among the recruitment record in a minor matter or the employer failed to contact the applicants and failed to preserve evidence.
Employers are strongly advised to pay attention to the details and good record-keeping to survive in the new permanent labor certification environment and not to experience waste of money and time and denials.