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How to get a Green Card through an employer? 00:04 The first step in the process of getting a green card through an employer is actually have the employer commit to giving you that job.   00:18 The first step in the process is going to be, we called his perm, PERM Labor Certification, the Labor Certification.  And the Labor Certification process involves essentially an employer filing a petition with the Labor Department and several other things with the Labor Department proving that there are no U.S. citizen workers that are qualified to do this job. 1:18  The reason is because not only that employer has to sign the forms, be involved in all the recruitment process and everything else that we're going to describe, but also they have to be paying most of the fees that are involved in the process, including the lawyer fees   2:31 Once we have a certified labor certification, after we went through all the hoops of advertising and doing whatever is required, the employer with that certifi