The “multi-step process” being required of employers when applying work permits for their foreign employees is provoking fears that it may hamper their ability to retain these employees and that they may eventually lose them. The Saipan Chamber of Commerce raised this, and other...

There is no need to rush the issuance of new CW-1 regulations, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP), since the lack of the regulations currently bear no disadvantages to the CNMI. Responding to a Saipan Tribune inquiry, Sablan noted that, while his office...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services clarified over the weekend that workers under the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker Program whose company did not apply to renew a worker’s labor permit while it was still valid will have to depart the CNMI on or before the expiration date of...

Confusion surrounding the two prevailing wage surveys for the CNMI continues to confound many private companies in the CNMI, with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services insisting yesterday that anything wage-related is basically up the U.S. Department of Labor’s alley....