For most employment-based green card categories, PERM labor certification is the door you have to walk through first — and it is often the longest part of the entire process. Employers and sponsored workers alike are frequently surprised by how methodical, document-heavy, and slow this stage can be. Here is what is actually involved. What PERM Is Actually Testing For PERM stands for Program Electronic Review Management, but its real purpose is a labor market test: the employe
