[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR40.51]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 40_REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO BOTH NONIMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS 
UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart F_Labor Certification and Qualification for Certain Immigrants
 
Sec. 40.51  Labor certification.


    (a) INA 212(a)(5) applicable only to certain immigrant aliens. INA 
212(a)(5)(A) applies only to immigrant aliens described in INA 203(b)(2) 
or (3) who are seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of 
engaging in gainful employment.
    (b) Determination of need for alien's labor skills. An alien within 
one of the classes to which INA 212(a)(5) applies as described in Sec. 
40.51(a) who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of 
engaging in gainful employment, shall be ineligible under INA 
212(a)(5)(A) to receive a visa unless the Secretary of Labor has 
certified to the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, that

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    (1) There are not sufficient workers in the United States who are 
able, willing, qualified, (or equally qualified in the case of aliens 
who are members of the teaching profession or who have exceptional 
ability in the sciences or the arts) and available at the time of 
application for a visa and at the place to which the alien is destined 
to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and
    (2) The employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages 
and working conditions of the workers in the United States similarly 
employed.
    (c) Labor certification not required in certain cases. A spouse or 
child accompanying or following to join an alien spouse or parent who is 
a beneficiary of a petition approved pursuant to INA 203(b)(2) or (3) is 
not considered to be within the purview of INA 212(a)(5).

[56 FR 30422, July 2, 1991, as amended at 61 FR 1835, Jan. 24, 1996]