Green Card Lovin’ Law Firm Fights Labor Department
Posted by Nathan Koppel

An ongoing battle between the Labor Department and a prominent law firm just got nastier.

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, a prominent New York immigration firm, is being audited by the Labor Department for possibly giving too much assistance to clients that seek green cards for foreign workers. Today, the firm fired back with a suit claiming that some of the department’s rules are unconstitutional.

At issue are controversial Labor Department rules that require a company, as a condition for sponsoring a foreign worker for a green card, to certify to the Labor Department that the company has not been able to find a “minimally qualifiedâ€