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Thursday, June 24th, 20101) Prevailing Wage Determinations: The Department of Labor (DOL) advised today that a prevailing wage determination (PWD) obtained for an H-1B case can be used for a PERM case (and vice versa) if it is still valid and for the same job opportunity. The announcement was made in the AILA/DOL Stakeholder Telephone Conference of 6/22/10 that can be viewed on the AILA website. This will be extremely useful and will eliminate the long wait time in obtaining a PWD for DOL National for a PERM case when all information in re the job and its requirements remain identical.
2) Current H-1B Cap Count as of 6/18/2010: 22,900 cases have been received under the general H-1B cap. 9,700 cases have been received against the advanced US degree cap of 20,000.
3) CBP Releases Port of Entry Contact information: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/contacts/ports/
4) iCERT now posts PERM Processing Times: http://icert.doleta.gov/#fragment-2
5) Life Along the Mexico-US Border Photo Essay: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/mexicoborder/
6) DHS Releases Fact Sheet on Southwest Border “Next Steps”
7) E-Verify no longer voluntary for Utah Employers:
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