"Special Handling" for College Professors

What "Special Handling" process do: Allows a college or university to employ a foreign worker as a college or university teacher based on the foreign workers' qualifications and experience.

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What requirements "Special Handling" process has:  The Special Handling process is limited to positions in higher education institutions, and the position MUST involve some actual classroom teaching. Faculty members are not necessarily teachers; non-teaching positions such as researchers, librarians and other administrative staff must be processed under the basic foreign labor certification process. In order to take advantage of this "Special Handling" process, we must file your application within 18 months after you was selected by a competitive recruitment and selection process for the teaching position. We suggest you contact us as soon as you are hired.

What documents we need for processing your application:

1. Signed statement by the employer describing the complete recruitment procedure used in the selection process.
2. Signed statement by the employer providing the number of U.S. workers who applied for the position and the specific job-related reasons why the foreign worker was more qualified for the job than any of the U.S. workers.
3. Final, signed report of the body making the recommendation or selection of the foreign worker.
4. Copy of the dated letter from the employer offering the position to the foreign worker.
5. Copy of at least one advertisement for the position placed in a national professional journal with the date of publication and the name of the publication clearly visible and unaltered.
6. Copy of the internal posting showing dates of posting and signed and dated by an official who has actual hiring authority. For positions covered by a collective bargaining agreement, documentation to show that the business representative or a union official was notified of the filing of the Application for Foreign Worker Employment Certification.
7. Copy of your passport, F-1 or/and H-1B documents.

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