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Fashion roles in design, production, merchandising, and technical development can qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process. Employers document recruitment efforts before filing an I-140 immigrant petition, putting you on a path to permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status.
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Get Access To All JobsAs a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
- Weekly pay
- Scheduling flexibility
- Paid parental leave
- Paid education assistance
- Team member discount
- Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides direction related to operations, processes, and conditions of their area. Plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department. Sets example for those in their department by modeling exceptional customer experience. Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.
What you’ll be doing:
- Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
- Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
- Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
- Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
- Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
- Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
- Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
- Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
- Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
- Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
- Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.
- May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
- Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
- Creative thinking skills.
- Ability to influence others.
- Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business.
- Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product.
- Experience executing plans.
- Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
- A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.
As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
Meijer Rewards
- Weekly pay
- Scheduling flexibility
- Paid parental leave
- Paid education assistance
- Team member discount
- Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides direction related to operations, processes, and conditions of their area. Plans, guides, and empowers team members in the day-to-day operation of the department. Sets example for those in their department by modeling exceptional customer experience. Possesses the ability to help achieve department goals and influence their peers to create a continued winning strategy.
What you’ll be doing:
- Engaging peers to provide the best possible shopping experience for our customers including an exceptional checkout experience.
- Communicating with team members and assigning daily work tasks.
- Mentoring and coaching other team members to ensure customer service and sales goals are exceeded and the area is maintained to Meijer standards and team members have completed required trainings.
- Supports training new team members/cross-training high potential talent, providing peer coaching on job responsibilities/standards to positively impact team member productivity.
- Working with leadership on department schedule writing to focus on team member engagement, improving customer service, store sales and profitability.
- Ensuring freshness of products by closely monitoring execution of rotation and dating policies.
- Guiding the team in compliance with food safety standards and regulations and working in a safe manner aligning to 200% accountability.
- Leading team members to ensure ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and product display are completed, where applicable.
- Actively creating an environment that supports the Meijer culture, including valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- Operating a register and cash handling when needed.
- Operating powered equipment, where applicable.
- Participating in period end inventories, where applicable, to help achieve goals.
- May be required to act in Lead capacity in other departments throughout the store.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. You may perform other duties as assigned or required.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Passion for customer service with total engagement that conveys approachability to customers and fellow team members.
- Initiates interactions with customers and peers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Retail or other customer service experience preferred.
- Creative thinking skills.
- Ability to influence others.
- Ability to quickly build rapport and gain customer confidence to create repeat business.
- Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend and twist while handling product.
- Experience executing plans.
- Positive influence to create a strong team environment.
- A commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members and vendors feel valued and supported.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Fashion
Document your portfolio as credential evidence
USCIS evaluates whether your fashion role requires a specialized degree. Compile tearsheets, technical flat sketches, production specs, and press features that demonstrate the specialized nature of your work, not just your creative output.
Target brands with in-house immigration programs
Corporate fashion groups with dedicated HR and legal teams run PERM cases more reliably than small design studios. Publicly traded apparel conglomerates and major specialty retailers are structurally more likely to absorb multi-year sponsorship timelines.
Verify your job title maps to a PERM-eligible SOC code
Fashion covers dozens of O*NET occupations, from Fashion Designers to Merchandise Planners to Patternmakers. Confirm your actual duties align with the DOL's occupational definition before an employer begins PERM recruitment, since misaligned titles cause costly restarts.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Filter for fashion employers with active EB-2 and EB-3 filing history on Migrate Mate. Targeting companies that have already completed PERM cases shortens your path because their legal and HR teams already understand the process.
Understand how prevailing wage affects your offer
Before accepting an offer, ask your employer to run your role through the OFLC Wage Search. The DOL-certified prevailing wage locks your salary floor for the entire PERM process, so a low Level I wage determination can affect your total compensation for years.
Prepare for PERM recruitment documentation delays
DOL requires employers to run good-faith recruitment before filing PERM, typically spanning 30 to 180 days. Negotiate your start date and any trial periods with that timeline in mind, since recruitment must complete before the I-140 petition can be submitted.
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Find Fashion JobsFashion Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Do fashion jobs actually qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Yes. Fashion Designer, Technical Designer, Patternmaker, Merchandise Planner, and Production Manager are among the occupations that regularly appear in PERM filings. EB-3 covers skilled workers and professionals with a bachelor's degree, while EB-2 applies to roles requiring an advanced degree or candidates with strong specialized credentials. The key is demonstrating that the specific position meets DOL's minimum requirements.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for fashion roles?
H-1B is a temporary nonimmigrant visa capped at 85,000 per year and subject to an annual lottery. PERM-based green cards have no equivalent lottery at the EB-3 level for most nationalities, and the outcome is permanent residency rather than a two- or three-year work authorization period. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM plus I-140 plus adjustment of status typically runs two to four years or more depending on your country of birth.
Which fashion employers are most likely to sponsor a green card?
Large apparel conglomerates, major department store chains, and global fast-fashion retailers with established HR and immigration counsel are the most consistent PERM sponsors. Smaller design studios and independent brands do sponsor, but they're more likely to pause or abandon cases mid-process due to cost or staff turnover. Use Migrate Mate to filter for fashion companies with verified EB-2 and EB-3 filing history before you apply.
Can a fashion role qualify as a specialty occupation for the PERM process?
PERM does not use the specialty occupation standard, which belongs to the H-1B category. For PERM, DOL focuses on whether the job meets the minimum education and experience requirements tied to the relevant SOC occupation code. A Fashion Designer role typically requires a bachelor's degree in fashion design or a related field, which satisfies the EB-3 professional threshold and supports an EB-2 filing when an advanced degree is genuinely required.
What documents should I have ready before a fashion employer starts my PERM case?
Gather your degree transcripts and credential evaluations if your degree is from outside the U.S., a portfolio or work samples that substantiate your job duties, any previous U.S. work authorization records, and a detailed job description aligned to the DOL occupational definition for your SOC code. Employers cannot begin DOL recruitment without a finalized job description, so delays on your end slow the entire case.
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