Work VisaJun 13, 2020

Listing skills for Green Card PERM process

When listing skills required for your current job in the Green Card PERM process, if the specific skills used at the current job don't line up completely with past jobs, is it okay to list more general software skills? For example, at my current job I'm working on distributed systems and infra, but at my previous jobs I was doing work closer to full-stack web development, so the skills don't perfectly align. In that case, would it suffice if I listed more general software skills like "designing and developing performant and reliable software systems", or "experience using high-level programming languages to implement software features"? Would doing this negatively affect the market test of my job since a lot of US-citizen applicants can claim they have these general skills?

Airbnb StinkyOrc Jun 13, 2020

Ask your lawyer. Follow their advice.

AZEK aIPc56 Jun 13, 2020

From what I've heard BAL does a terrific job at visa applications. Follow their advice. If you still aren't happy escalate internally and get a new lawyer.

Facebook jwkxk OP Jun 13, 2020

I'm at a new company that doesn't use BAL unfortunately