Employers must currently submit a Labor Certification Agreement (LCA) with the number of workers it will cover.

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The requirement is three years if going through the labor certification process and then being sponsored for a green card.

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If you are selling for a reason such as a municipal tax increase or a labor union certification, it will be even harder to sell.

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The major components to the education ecosystem include availability of affordable educational resources, discovery vehicles (comprehensive and efficient search), curriculum (goal) management, personal learning networks (social), facilitators, assessment, certification, auditing, efficient labor markets, and more.

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Many of them also have signed up for certification programs, which require the farmers to live up to certain environmental and labor standards.

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