If you've heard about any similar cas, or have any idea, I will appreciate it. Here's the situation:
There's a big company (over 1000 people) with many offices in the US. They offered an employee a job in a state. This office was always small (~5 people, not even a branch, every administration, taxation, etc. happens at the HQ), but once again the company itself is big. LC was filed a long time ago (traditional), supervised recruitment was done last year, no American applicant showed up (not even a resume, even though the local SWA [would have] collected the applications), it reached the regional level and then went to BEC. Now the big company decided to close that office, because it wasn't economic to keep it up for that 5 people, so these people now are working from their home offices: these are IT jobs, so they don't need more than a computer and a phone. Nobody was fired, everybody has work to do. The company is planning to hire more people in the region and then they'll have a new office, but it might take a year or more. Now the question is what will happen to the LC and later to the I-140 when the BEC and USCIS will ask about the location of the company. I know that future employment (meaning future position) is acceptable, but what about a future office? Or would one of the employees' home address be better?
If there was no retrogression, the company would probably abandon the case and start a new PERM in the state where its headquarter is, but nowadays priority date is very important. Also, at the I-485 level you can change the location (not that the job's location would be different, but it might be more acceptable for USCIS) based on AC-21, but at the LC and I-140 level it means an automatic denial.
Have you ever heard anything like this? Do you think it's doable or the company should forget about it and start everything all over again?
Thanks in advance.
There's a big company (over 1000 people) with many offices in the US. They offered an employee a job in a state. This office was always small (~5 people, not even a branch, every administration, taxation, etc. happens at the HQ), but once again the company itself is big. LC was filed a long time ago (traditional), supervised recruitment was done last year, no American applicant showed up (not even a resume, even though the local SWA [would have] collected the applications), it reached the regional level and then went to BEC. Now the big company decided to close that office, because it wasn't economic to keep it up for that 5 people, so these people now are working from their home offices: these are IT jobs, so they don't need more than a computer and a phone. Nobody was fired, everybody has work to do. The company is planning to hire more people in the region and then they'll have a new office, but it might take a year or more. Now the question is what will happen to the LC and later to the I-140 when the BEC and USCIS will ask about the location of the company. I know that future employment (meaning future position) is acceptable, but what about a future office? Or would one of the employees' home address be better?
If there was no retrogression, the company would probably abandon the case and start a new PERM in the state where its headquarter is, but nowadays priority date is very important. Also, at the I-485 level you can change the location (not that the job's location would be different, but it might be more acceptable for USCIS) based on AC-21, but at the LC and I-140 level it means an automatic denial.
Have you ever heard anything like this? Do you think it's doable or the company should forget about it and start everything all over again?
Thanks in advance.