Reduction in the number of Green Card applicants?

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As posted in immigration law website:
05/19/2008: Softening Economy and Continuing Drop of New PERM Application Filing
  • The DOL report indicates that the PERM applications dropped 37% between first quarter of FY 2006 and first quarter of FY 2007. This trend continued between the first quarter of FY 2007 and FY 2008. In the PERM program, there was a much lower number of applications filed from the comparable 18 period in FY 2007, from 30,789 applications to 16,196. It is interesting to note that the processing times for PERM applications started moving in reverse direction beginning from the same period as affected by the Department's new policy to focus on achievement of "integrity" of the PERM applications and increased audits of the applications. Considering the fact that the straight-forward applications nowadays take 40 days or longer and it is anticipated that the processing times will continuously deteriorate for the rest of the year, there is a growing concern that the DOL's foreign labor certification system may return to the old days when the system was heavily infected by the diceases named mounting backlog. This concern is partially backed by the evidence that there is likely enactment of legislation for comprehensive immigration reform in FY 2009, which may create an avalanche of foreign labor certification applications. We hope that the agency would not repeat the old history of its ailing foreign labor certification program management.
 
Not surprising. In this economic decline companies are doing less hiring ... except for H-1B jobs that exist to facilitate offshoring. But those companies tend not to file many green card applications.
 
Not surprising. In this economic decline companies are doing less hiring ... except for H-1B jobs that exist to facilitate offshoring. But those companies tend not to file many green card applications.

Those companies doesn't benefit any more from the labor substitution. Earlier GCs gave them win-win situation. Retain employees, otherwise sell that labor.
 
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