Prevailing Wages

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Whitemamba

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Hi,
I am a structural engineer with 3 years of experience. I work with H1-B visa. I recently retained a lawyer to start my green card process. I want to apply with IB2-RIR. My lawyer made a research through Chicago SESA and found out that I have to make 70K in order to be eligible for the set prevailing wages. This amount is almost 14K above of what I and my colleagues at my level are making now.
Do you think this is a reasonable amount, 70K is kinda to high for a structural engineer with my experience.
What do you think guys, is there something wrong here? Anything I can do?
Thanks for your help.

Whitemamba
 
you can ask for another survey

I don\'t know how exactly but in my case the prevailing wage was somewhere around the $80k+ and I am in South Florida with a Bachelor in Business only. So we called the lawyer and he asked another company to do a wage survey. It did cost us some extra (not much only a couple of hundred $$ I think) but the new wage was $47k (which was still a few k higher than what I make) and that went into the advertisement as well. Also that does not mean they will have to raise your salary right away, only after you become a resident. At least that is what I have picked up...
 
Prevailing Wage Problem with DOL in Atlanta

Dear all,

My LC case was notified of findings in DOL in Atlanta. It is the money problem. My salary falls below 95% of prevailing wage based on DOL. The company does not want to increase my salary to the required 66K and they will file another survey. I am working in FL for Siemens Westinhouse. How do you think that the DOL would accept the new survey? Any experience before with DOL in Atlanta? Thank you.

ZL
 
Typically, they fight with you if you try to use an alternate survey

You can win this fight (sometimes) but it takes a while. Please note that this is not from Atlanta.

Jim

James D. Mills
Attorney at Law
jdmills@justice.com
732-644-5702
 
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