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Business Immigration Law Workshop

2008 Dates and Locations:

Registration Fee$ 995

Daily Schedule
Registration & Breakfast 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Day 1: 9:00a.m – 5:00p.m.
Day 2: 9:00a.m – 2:00p.m.

CLE Hours
This Course is Eligible for
10.25(60 minute)
12.3(50 minute)
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CPE Hours
This Course is Eligible for
12.0(CPE)
hours of credit.
Program Level: Basic
Program Prerequisite: None
Advance Preparation: None
Method: Group-Live
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This workshop is designed for those with all levels of experience and for all employers–especially those concerned with employing foreign nationals.

Procedural guidance and insight will be provided to assist you in preparing both immigrant and non-immigrant petitions. In short, the course focuses on the practical matters involved in preparing and processing work-related documentation within the immigration and nationality law context.

The workshop includes a comprehensive, detailed explanation of the changes in agency structure within the Department of Homeland Security. The course will review the Form I-9 with its new requirements and coverage of the acceptable documents for employment authorization verification. This workshop will also employ role-playing that will cover complex typical issues encountered frequently. Employer compliance and enforcement issues are included in the workshop.

Business Immigration Law Workshop Course Curriculum

I. Some Basics

  1. Visas in General
    1. What They Are
    2. Temporary Stay in U.S.
    3. Visa Classifications
    4. Statutory Classifications
  2. Who Issues What
    1. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Role
    2. State Department Role
    3. Labor Department Role
  3. Entering the U.S.
    1. Primary Inspection
    2. Secondary Inspection
    3. Deferred Inspection
    4. Parole
  4. Judicial Review
    1. Removal Process
    2. Hearing Judges
  5. Non-Immigrant Visas
    1. Visitor
    2. Visitor for Business/B-1
    3. Visitor for Pleasure/B-2
    4. Guidelines
    5. Application Procedure
  6. Temporary Worker (H-1)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Application Procedure
    3. Changes in Law & Procedure
    4. DOL Regulation of H-1B Temporary Foreign Specialty Workers
    5. Ensuring Compliance with the Actual Wage Requirements
    6. Ensuring Compliance with the Prevailing Wage Requirements
    7. Notice and Posting Issues
    8. Special Issues for Job Contractors
    9. Managing LCA Compliance for Itinerant H-1B Specialty Workers
  7. Temporary Worker (H-2)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Application Procedure
    3. Temporary Labor Certification For H-2
  8. Trainee (H-3)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Alternative
    3. Application Procedure
  9. Intracompany Transferees (L-1)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Application Procedure
  10. Treaty Traders & Investors
    1. Characteristics
    2. Alien Treaty Trader
  11. International Investor (E-2)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Alien Treaty Investor
    3. Nationality Questions
    4. Application Procedure
  12. Employment of Foreign Students
    1. Characteristics
    2. Application Procedure
  13. Exchange Visitors (J-1)
    1. Characteristics
    2. Application Procedure
  14. Other Non-Immigrant Visas
    1. O-1: Aliens With Extraordinary Ability
    2. O-2: Aliens Accompanying Athletes Or
      Artists
    3. O-3: Family Matters
    4. P-1: Athletes vs. Entertainers
    5. P-2: Artists & Other Entertainers
    6. Q: Cultural Exchange Visitors
    7. R: Religious Workers

II. Immigrant Visas

  1. Employment Preference Applications
    1. Labor Certification
    2. Petition Filed
    3. Priority 1
      • Extraordinary Ability
      • Outstanding Professors & Researchers
      • Executives & Managers
    4. Priority 2
      • Aliens with Advanced Degrees
      • Exceptional Ability
    5. Priority 3-Skilled & Unskilled Workers
    6. Priority 4-Special Immigrants
    7. Priority 5-Investors

III. I-9 Issues & Compliance

  1. Establishing and Maintaining Effective Internal Immigration Law Compliance Systems for Corporate and Multinational Employers.
  2. Employment Verification Requirements
    1. U.S. Verification System
    2. Form I-9 Requirements for Employers
    3. Immigration-Related Discrimination Issues and Verification
    4. Changes in the Verification Scheme and Reform Legislation
    5. Verification Issues for the Successor Employer

IN-HOUSE PRESENTATION

This course is available for in-house presentation at your facility ... at your convenience

Please direct inquiries to Federal Publications Seminars

Telephone (202) 772-8295 or (888) 494-3696; www.fedpubseminars.com

Faculty

David Kussin, (Co-Chair) is a partner in the law firm of Mukai & Kussin, LLP and special counsel on immigration matters to the firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP. Mr. Kussin handles all areas of global immigration law with a primary emphasis on United States corporate immigration matters. Mr. Kussin coordinates the firm’s administrative practice and case management procedures. He has been a speaker on U.S. immigration and visa matters to national attorney organizations as well as at client seminars and business group meetings.

Through this special counsel relationship in immigration and nationality law, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP has gained a unique reputation among firms serving the immigration and nationality law needs of international and domestic businesses. The firm provides legal expertise on immigration and nationality matters such as the provision of temporary working visas, domestic and international investment visas, trade and business visas, student visas, compliance and the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), applications for labor certification and processing of temporary and permanent visas at American Consulates and Embassies throughout the world.

Firm clients include major multinational corporations, as well as domestic and other foreign based companies. The firm represents foreign governments and domestic state agencies in immigration and nationality law compliance.

Eric Bland, (Co-Chair) is a partner at Siskind Susser Bland, PC. Eric is an active member of the State Bar of New York, the State Bar of New Jersey and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Eric has been published in major legal journals and has been invited to lecture on immigration law topics at various conferences in the United States and abroad. Eric has been asked to speak on nationally syndicated television news shows and has become a regular contributor to Sirius satellite radio.

Prior to joining Siskind Susser Bland, PC, Eric was a founder of Eric M Bland, PC, and enjoyed a unique affiliation with the commercial arts, fashion and entertainment industries. His commitment to providing intelligent, creative service has resulted in loyal relationships with the most prominent companies in the arenas of fashion, television, film, sports, fine arts, new technology, music, architecture and commercial design. While his clients have ranged from individual artists and small design firms to Academy Award winning actors, supermodels and Fortune 500 corporations, Eric Bland’s level of attention has never wavered: Eric has always insisted that each client and each matter be treated with the same deserving respect and integrity with which he would expect in return.

Stephen K. Fischel is the former Director of the Office of Legislation, Regulations and Advisory Assistance in the Visa Office of the U.S. Department of State. He has over 30 years of experience in international immigration policy making, has played a critical role in key legislation governing global movement of people and is an international expert and lecturer on matters relating to U.S. visa law. He is an active contributor to numerous immigration law and policy-related professional organizations.

In his most recent position at the U.S. Department of State, he was responsible for security and non-security advisory opinions, supervised analysis and implementation of visa laws impacting U.S. consular affairs, worked closely with Congress in drafting immigration legislation, worked with the President’s Domestic Policy Council on the President’s Temporary Worker Program, and was the primary immigration law advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Other notable projects he oversaw include the Mexican Migration Talks, negotiation and implementation of NAFTA, and the negotiation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security regarding the transfer of certain visa authority prescribed by the Homeland Security Act.

Brian Hunt is the Deputy Chief, Legal Advisory Opinions, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs

Greg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser Bland, one of the nation’s largest immigration practices, and has been practicing law since 1990. Greg is the author of several books including the annually published J-1 Visa Guidebook and the soon to be released third edition of the American Bar Association’s Lawyers Guide to Marketing on the Internet. In 1994, he created www.visalaw.com, the first immigration law firm web site in the world and is the editor of Siskind’s Immigration Bulletin, a newsletter that is distributed to more than 40,000 subscribers each week. He is also the proprietor of one of the most popular lawyer blogs at http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind. Greg was the first immigration lawyer ever photographed for the cover of the American Bar Association Journal and he was recently named by Chambers and Partners as one of the top 25 immigration lawyers in the US. He practices primarily in business and employment immigration and is one of the founders of Visalaw International, the global alliance of immigration lawyers. He also regularly writes and speaks on law office technology.