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a Request for Evidence. detailed information tions filed by employers the 2018 SOCs to July the PERM portal.
Even if there is an RFE, on the OWL for each for immigrant and non- 1, 2022. While O*NET (This blog is for
it could be overcome by SOC code than O*NET. immigrant visa classifica- has updated its system informational purposes
explaining that 15-1132 While the O*NET pro- tions are not formally ad- to the 2018 SOCs, the and should not be viewed
(Software Developers, vides detailed explana- dressed, and therefore, 2010 SOCs are archived as a substitute for legal
Applications) has re- tions for each SOC code require us to connect the in O*NET. Stakehold-
advice).
placed 15-1031 (Com- based on the 2018 SOC SOC code dots. From SmartTV Download ZingoTV App
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puter Software Engi- System, we are left us- Finally, it should be 2010 SOCs until July 1, * Isabel Rajabzadeh is
neers), which in turn has ing the 2010 SOC system noted that the Office 2022, when the OFLC an Associate at Cyrus D.
most recently been re- to determine prevailing of Foreign Labor Cer- makes them go live Mehta & Partners PLLC
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placed by 15-1252 (Soft- wage information. In tification Data Center in the Foreign Labor and is admitted to prac-
ware Developers). responding to specialty (“OFLC) has delayed Application Gateway tice law in New York.
Not only are immi- occupation RFE’s, this _________________________________________________________________________________________________
grant visas affected by system forces individu- Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing
this but the H-1B sys- als to not only argue the Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s
tem also relies heavily specialized nature of the Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Committee; former chair of AILA’s Ethics
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on SOC codes. What position, but that the Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee,
happens when an SOC O*NET also sees it as a Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigra-
code like 15-1132 is used specialty occupation in tion; board member of Volunteers for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration
on an LCA because the order to strengthen the Coalition. Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration
new SOC code 15-1252 argument. In some cases, Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New
is not reflected in the this requires one to dig York City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related
OWL and thus, one can- into the O*NET archives issues, including on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where
not reference the most to find the older 2010 he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work. Mr. Mehta received the AILA 2018 Edith
relevant information to SOCs. You can click www.indialife.tv
Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law and the AILA 2011
determine the position? In an occupation Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation
Although usage of the like technology it is un- in the immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010
“older” SOC codes on derstandable that SOC and 2016. Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by
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LCAs seem to be per- codes require changes. Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked in Chambers USA and
mitted by the USCIS, However, the impact of Chambers Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.

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