{"id":11916,"date":"2011-11-22T05:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2011-11-22T05:33:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T05:33:55","slug":"only-1154-alien-workers-so-far-petitioned-for-cw-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/only-1154-alien-workers-so-far-petitioned-for-cw-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 1,154 alien workers so far petitioned for CW status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>As of Thursday, Nov. 17, only 1,154 of an estimated 13,399 foreign workers in the CNMI who are \u201cpotentially eligible\u201d for Commonwealth-only worker status have been petitioned by employers.<\/p>\n<p>Corinna A. Luna, chief of the Business and Employment Services Branch, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, disclosed in a declaration filed in the U.S. District Court for the NMI that 616 Form I-129CW petitions have been received by USCIS from 172 employers in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Luna said the petitions were filed on behalf of 1,154 CW-1 beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice attached Luna&#8217;s declaration in its opposition to a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by a group of individuals who are asking the federal court to stop federal officials from implementing the CNMI-only Transitional Worker final rule.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a tiny fraction of the estimated 13,399 foreign workers who are \u201cpotentially eligible\u201d for CW status, USCIS has been beefing up its session for employers on how to file Form I-129CW.<\/p>\n<p>As the Nov. 27 deadline to file Form I-129CW draws near, foreign workers who are still jobless are reportedly falling prey to \u201csponsorship\u201d jobs offered by some manpower or individuals for payments of up to $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter As of Thursday, Nov. 17, only 1,154 of an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}