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Employers Must Soon Use Yet Another New I-9 Form

Fisher Phillips

New document could be liability trap for unsuspecting employers.

Immigration Policy: Ebbs and Flows during Trump’s First Year

Davorin Odrcic

I watched Donald Trump’s speech announcing his candidacy while waiting for a client’s interview at the Milwaukee office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Large-Scale Immigration Raids Focus Attention on Employer Compliance With Immigration Laws

Martha J. Schoonover

The recent raids of dozens of 7-Eleven stores by U.S. immigration agents and the corresponding arrest of 21 individuals for immigration-related violations were widely covered as the largest immigrant enforcement crackdown undertaken by the Trump administration to date.

Issue Spotting Guide for Assessing Inbound to U.S. Travel Issues

Kathleen M. Peregoy

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for management and human resources representatives when making decisions and advising employees/management on travel and immigration-related concerns.

Issue Spotting Guide for Assessing Outbound from U.S. Travel Issues

Neil S. Dornbaum

This guide is intended to serve as a resource for management on travel and immigration-related concerns.

Role of the Immigration Lawyer in the Age of Trump

Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners

Stroock Partners with New York Lawyers for Public Interest to Develop Critical Guide for Nonprofits on Immigration Enforcement

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan

Marked increases in immigration arrests, especially in and around courts, schools, places of worship, and health care facilities, have generated fear and uncertainty among immigrant communities and left many non-profit service providers questioning how to continue effectively assisting their immigrant clients.

Immigration Worksite Enforcement to Increase in 2018

Christopher L. Thomas

Worksite enforcement is likely to take center stage in 2018.

U.S. Business Immigration: Year-in-Review

Christian S. Allen

For more reasons than are probably appropriate to include here today, 2017 will be forever be burned into the memories of everybody in the U.S. immigration industry, and all HR and legal professionals who were involved in hiring and/or employing foreign workers in the U.S. No matter your political persuasion, 2017 turned out to not be anything like we all expected at the beginning of the year, fol

Workforce Mobility at Risk Under a NAFTA Renegotiation

Suzanne K. Sukkar

The assessments of President Donald J. Trump’s first year in office have had a recurring stormy theme.

Immigration Worksite Compliance Issues for Employers

Maria I. Casablanca

Immigration worksite enforcement has become a balancing act between verifying eligibility to work and avoiding discrimination; thus it has merged two fields of law: labor and employment law with immigration and nationality law.

Immigration or Stagnation: Defending the American Experiment

Rita Sostrin

In this novel atmosphere of denials and obstacles, the damage is two-fold: our nation is not only denying its righteous legacy, but also its rightful destiny.

The Secret War against Legal Immigration

Leila Freijy

The way the existing laws and regulations are being applied is clearly changing under the Buy American, Hire American Executive Order.

Employers Must Soon Use Yet Another New I-9 Form

Fisher Phillips

New document could be liability trap for unsuspecting employers.

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The Global Employer: Strategies and Best Practices for an International Workforce

Garfinkel Immigration Law Firm

Developing and retaining an international workforce is essential to competing in the global marketplace.

Immigration in Review: Changes under the Trump Administration

Angelique M. Montano

This is affecting U.S. companies’ ability to hire the best qualified employees to promote their services and products.

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Legal Immigration

Bennett R. Savitz

The adjudication strategy achieved the change the Trump administration wanted to make to the H-1B program without having to amend the regulations.

Trump and Immigration: Separating Truth from Fiction

Harlan G. York

Deportations aren’t up, but the people who are being deported are more “newsworthy.”

Changes to the H-1B Visa Program

Felicia L. Gittleman

As a law firm specializing in business immigration since 1984, our firm has seen many changes to the H-1B visa program over the years.

Practicing Immigration Law Guerrilla Style

Amy Kirkland Myers

Studies show that on average immigrants are generally law-abiding—more so than native-born Americans.

Expanding Foreign Investment through Treaty Investor (E-2) Visa Reform

Berry Appleman & Leiden

Immigration Challenges Continue in the New Year

John L. Pinnix

For immigration attorneys, this New Year needs more than routine reflection and the usual strategic planning.

The New Business Immigration Regime

Christy Nguyen

Five things executives and HR should do.

The Inside Wall

Charla Truett

Are bricks being stacked up against employment-based immigration?

H-1Bs: The Scrutiny Continues

Marlene Z. Stanger

Last year saw an unprecedented rise in the number of requests for evidence issued by the USCIS for H-1B cases that were filed as part of the annual “Cap Case” lottery.

New Immigration Regulation Establishes Grace Periods for Terminated Foreign Workers

Andrew B. Greenfield

Upon termination, these professionals had no time to finalize their affairs, were unable to remain in the country lawfully in order to seek alternate employment or a new visa status, and immediately became deportable from the United States.

Buy American, Hire American Takes Its Toll on Business Immigration

Karen Gabriel Moss

USCIS is considering the reinterpretation of “may grant” language contained in the statute deeming it discretionary rather than mandatory.