This article deals with the effect of the Eilberg Act and the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act on labor certification of alien professionals. They are found to have enhanced the importance, to alien professionals seeking labor certification, of residing inside the U.S. at the time of application. Further, the legislation has had a dramatic effect on labor certifications for medical professionals.
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