Master the latest H-1B visa changes and optimize your legal practice for the evolving immigration landscape
“Modernizing H-1B Processes: What Lawyers Should Know” provides legal professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the evolving H-1B landscape. This course explores key recommendations for streamlining the H-1B application process, including simplifying documentation, implementing online portals, increasing USCIS staff, standardizing evaluation criteria, and creating fast-track options. It also examines improvements to specialty occupation definitions, such as broadening definitions to include emerging fields, giving greater weight to practical experience, and regularly updating qualifying degrees. Further, the course addresses enhancing flexibility for H-1B visa holders, exploring recommendations for extending grace periods, allowing H-1B portability, creating provisions for starting businesses, and implementing points-based systems. Finally, the course delves into strengthening program integrity, discussing stricter penalties, enhanced monitoring, regular audits, whistleblower programs, and improved data sharing. This course equips lawyers with the knowledge to navigate the complexities of the modern H-1B system and effectively represent their clients.
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Licensed New York Attorney
Licensed in New York and currently based in Illinois. She is in her fifth year as a corporate attorney and has experience working in law firms and in-house settings. Her focus includes corporate law, including entity formation, equity issuance and a focus on equity and debt financings as well as merger and acquisition transactions. She also has experience in commercial agreements and privacy and data security law.
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