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FROM OCT 2011 TO NOV 2014
USCIS has approved petitions for 16,627 CW workers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has so far approved the petitions of 16,627 CW workers from Oct. 7, 2011, to Nov. 30, 2014, according to USCIS Supervisory Public Affairs Officer, West Coast, Marie Thérèse Sebrechts.
She said the CNMI report is updated each month and the particular report she is sharing with the Saipan Tribune contains all CNMI activity from Oct. 7, 2011, through Nov. 30, 2014.
Sebrechts said there are two types of extensions contained in the report—with the same employer and with a different employer.
I129CW Extension with the same employer petitions during the four-year period contained in the report saw a total of 10,220 petitions filed by approximately 1,694 different employers.
Of the petitions, a total of 17,008 CW1 workers are sponsored and of the number 8,951 petitions were approved consisting of 14,497 beneficiaries.
The USCIS officials, meanwhile, said a total of 183 petitions were denied consisting of 282 beneficiaries.
Sebrechts said a petition is the application filed, while beneficiaries are those persons—in this case, workers—who are named in the petition.
USCIS, meanwhile, had data entered 2,188 I-129CW petitions with a different employer from Oct. 7, 2011 through Nov. 30, 2014.
Sebrechts said the petitions were filed by approximately 798 different employers and that a total of 3,036 CW1 workers are sponsored on these petitions.
Of the number, 1,642 petitions were approved consisting of 2,130 beneficiaries. Meanwhile, 277 petitions were denied made up of 486 beneficiaries.
The CNMI-only Transitional Worker Program was instituted after the Consolidated Natural Resources Act was signed into law in 2009. The CNRA extended U.S. immigration to the CNMI and brought forth the five-year transitional CW program that was subsequently was extended to 2019 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez in June 3, 2014.
