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An EB-3 case has costs on both sides, and United States regulations are specific about which side carries some of them.
The employer's costs
The labour certification stage exists to test the US labour market on the employer's behalf. Department of Labor regulations require the employer to pay the costs of that recruitment, and the attorney fees connected with the labour certification, and prohibit passing them to the worker.
If someone asks you to fund advertising, recruitment or the PERM attorney, that is the point to stop and ask questions.
Your costs
Applicants generally meet their own consular processing costs: the immigrant visa application fee, the medical examination by an authorised panel physician, obtaining civil documents and police certificates, translations, photographs and travel.
Any fee for a service you have chosen to buy is also yours, and it should be invoiced by a company and receipted. A request to pay an individual's personal account leaves you with no record and no recourse.
What we do not quote
We do not publish government fee figures on this site. They change, and a stale number read as current is worse than no number. USCIS and the Department of State publish theirs, and those pages are always the ones to trust.
This page is general information about a US immigration category, not legal advice. ImmiAxis is not a law firm. For advice on your own case, consult a qualified immigration attorney or accredited representative.
