Acceptable Publications for PERM Advertisement

Listed below are answers from an immigration lawyer regarding your questions about PERM and work permits. Be sure that you are in compliance with the effective date, March 28, 2005, for the new PERM regulations.

Question: What is considered an acceptable newspaper and/or acceptable journal and is there a published list?

Answer: There is no published list of acceptable publications.

Answer: Most employers, based on their normal recruiting efforts, will be able to readily identify those newspapers (or journals for certain professional positions) that are most likely to bring responses from able, willing, qualified, and available U.S. workers. The employer must be able to document that the newspaper and/or journal chosen is the most appropriate to the occupation and the workers likely to apply for the job opportunity.

Note: In the case of a rural area where there is no newspaper with a Sunday edition and the employer chooses to use the edition having the widest circulation, the employer must be able to document the edition chosen does, in fact, have the widest circulation.

Question: Is the employer permitted to use an electronic national professional journal?

Answer: No, the employer can not use an electronic national professional journal. The employer must use a print journal whether to satisfy the provision permitting the use of a journal as an alternative to one of the Sunday advertisements or to satisfy the provision requiring an advertisement in a journal under optional special recruitment procedures for college and university teachers.

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