Labor Certification for Permanent Immigrant Admissions (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
May 15, 2003 |
| Report Number |
RS21520 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Ruth Ellen Wasem, Domestic Social Policy Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
The foreign labor certification program in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible
for
ensuring that foreign workers do not displace or adversely affect working conditions of U.S. workers.
DOL handles the labor certifications for permanent employment-based immigrants, temporary
agricultural workers, and temporary nonagricultural workers as well as the simpler process of labor
attestations for temporary professional workers. (1) This report is organized
into five sections: a brief
history of employment-based immigration; a summary of the role of the DOL in employment-based
immigration; an overview of current law on employment-based immigration; an analysis of trends
in employment-based admissions and labor certification applications (LCAs); and a discussion of
the recent funding history for labor certification. This report will be updated if legislative or policy
changes warrant.
1. Â For a discussion of labor certification and attestations for
temporary foreign workers, see CRS Report RL30498 , Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B)
Workers
(hereafter cited as RL30498, Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers );
and CRS Report RL30852, Immigration of Agricultural Guest Workers: Policy, Trends, and Legislative
Issues , both by Ruth
Ellen Wasem.
