The University will do so only with the approval of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and on the advice and with the assistance of the University Counsel. Once a negative decision is final, the University may file a new application for labor certification for the same position but only after a period of six months has passed from the date of the Certifying Officer's decision. We'll certainly let the department and the alien know the results as soon as we know them. Once the Department of Labor has approved the application for labor certification, the University can petition the Immigration and Naturalization Service on behalf of the alien. This part of the process is called a second preference petition.
All green cards are the same, all confer the same benefits.
Only the paths to those green cards are different. The University often hires individuals who have completed all the requirements for their Ph.D. degree except for submission of their dissertation. The completion of the dissertation is sometimes shuffled to the back of the scholar's priorities during his or her first year of teaching or research. Time passes and the degree isn't awarded as promptly as everyone might have wished. While the department may allow the scholar some leeway in this regard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is not so open-minded.