When an employer wishes to sponsor an H-1b worker for a green card, they are required to run a few ads in the Sunday newspaper as "good faith" recruitment to demonstrate that no qualified Americans are available for the position. "Good faith” is subjective, as the immigration attorney in this Cohen and Grigsby video illustrates: www.youtube.com/programmersguild/.

The employer has no intention of hiring any of the applicants - there is no job opening since the H-1b worker already holds the position. The employer only runs these ads so that they can submit copiesof them to DOL along with the green card application.

An investigation of the tech job ads in the October 4, 2009 Sacramento Bee within the categories “Computer, Engineering, and Information Technology” revealed that the majority of ads are PERM sham ads. The ads are fraud upon the unemployed readers who take the time to respond to these ads.

I have repeatedly asked the editors of the Sacramento Bee for their policy on help wanted ads that are only a "labor market test" rather than a bona fide intent to find a candidate. None have ever responsed to me.

The ads and the basis for my allegations are here: www.programmersguild.org/rir/sacbeeletter_4oct2009.html.

The related LCAs for H-1b workers causing the PERM ads are here: www.programmersguild.org/rir/bee_h1b_4oct2009.xls - obtained from public records here: www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx.

The alleged sham ads are run by these employers:

• Auerbach Engineering
• Stratus Environmental
• ICF Jones and Stokes
• Verifone
• Electronic Data Systems

If you are qualified for any of these positions please mail in your resume. (Typically PERM ads can be spotted by the requirement that applicants mail in their application. I suspect this is to avoid an electronic trail that a qualified applicant had applied.)