Note: There is no indication that PERM processing times will improve in 2024, meaning if you are filing a PERM application now (Dec 2023), it might not get approved until Dec 2024.įor foreign nationals in the US in H-1B visa status, and whose PERM application is pending, and who do not already have some kind of I-140 approval from a prior employer, the risk is that something might happen to their job in 2024 and they would run out of H-1B time without getting an approved I-140. That was 359 days for DOL processing (11 months, 24 days). Approved by US Department of Labor on Dec 22, 2023. Filed with US Department of Labor on Dec 28, 2022. "The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) had estimated the government mandate could force some 16,000 cross-border drivers - 10 % of them - off the roads."Ĭanada drops vaccine mandate for its truckers after pressure from industry "However, truckers from the United States will still need to be vaccinated or they will be turned back at the border from Jan. In China they don't have this 'problem' - but in the end I will take this 'problem' versus the alternative.įrom Jan 12 - "The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said that unvaccinated, or partially vaccinated Canadian truck drivers arriving at the U.S.-Canada border will remain exempt from pre-arrival, arrival and post-arrival testing and quarantine requirements." I am not sure this distinction mentioned in the article below between vaccine status of US truckers versus Canadian truckers can be supported by 'science' - but we who live in western democracies have the privilege (and it is a privilege) of living in 'messy' societies where people don't always agree and people organize to influence government policy.Ĭhicago teachers don't want to teach in a pandemic and schools close US and Canadian truckers (at least a meaningful percentage) don't want to get vaccinated. In some ways it is good to see Canada struggling with the same issues as the US in terms of 'the politics of science'.
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