Previous Story
‘Employers must confirm continued employment of CW-1 workers every 6 months’
|
Posted on Sep 16 2021
Employers of foreign workers in the CNMI under a CW-1 permit must confirm the continued employment of the CW-1 workers every six months, said Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP).
In a post on his Facebook page last Tuesday, Sablan said that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may revoke an employer’s approved petition or deny their future petitions if they do not comply with the reporting requirement.
“The NMI U.S. Workforce Act of 2018, or Public Law 115-118, established the semiannual reporting requirement in part to stop the ‘ghost employee’ practice that had made it difficult for legacy businesses in the Marianas to obtain CW-1 workers,” he said in his post.
CNMI employers with CW-1 workers are required to submit what’s called Form I-129CWR (https://www.uscis.gov/i-129cwr), also called the Semiannual Report for CW-1 Employers, to verify the continued employment and payment of each worker under the terms of the approved permit.
Sablan said the interim final rule, implementing the U.S. Workforce Act, gives employers a 60-day window to file Form 1-129CWR that begins 30 days before and closes 30 days after the six-month anniversary of the start date of an approved CW petition.
Employers can verify if USCIS received the Form I-129CWR by entering the receipt number of the approved Form I-129CW petition in Case Status Online:
https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do.
