February 2001

H-1B Dependent Employer: Wake up and Act OR What Do You Do After You Have Been Hit on the Head?

On January 19, 2001, the long-awaited regulations on Labor Conditioning Applications were finally adopted by the Department of Labor. Reading the 245-page document put me in a trance-like state, and when I finally came back to my senses, the bells went off: OH MY GOD! SOME OF MY CLIENTS ARE H-1B DEPENDENT! It is not that we did not know the regulations were coming. It is not that we did not advise our clients as soon as we started working on our first H-1B for them; we told them that they should do certain things to prevent the blow of being declared "H-1B Dependent" ...