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Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has sent a letter to U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. requesting consultations between the CNMI and U.S. governments pursuant to Section 902 of the Covenant.
While CNMI employers obtained 94% of available CNMI-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) permits in fiscal year 2018, this rate dropped to only 49% in 2020, according to the U.S. Government Accountability
Despite the increase in the total number of workers in the CNMI in 2021 and 2022—as the U.S. Government Accountability Office had found—the region remains at risk of a severe