WASHINGTON, D.C.—Employers, who have not yet received the temporary labor certifications required to renew their employees’ CW permits for fiscal year 2020, will get some extra time, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP). Sablan said the congressional office...

The president and part-owner of a company that manufactures charcoal on Saipan was slapped in federal court Monday with six months of imprisonment for engaging in fraud in the applications for CNMI-Only Transitional Worker program (CW) permits. U.S. District Court for the NMI...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) had two bills approved for a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives today. The House Natural Resources Committee reported out H.R. 560, Sablan’s bill making permanent resident status in the Marianas possible for an...

The delay in the release of a new work permit that would allow them to continue working in the CNMI is fast becoming a widening net of problems for many foreign workers. Not only do they face the prospect of a forced exit from the CNMI by the end of the month but they also need...