12-Hour Program

See Credit Details Below

Overview

Why You Should Attend

At this year’s Institute, an outstanding faculty of leading practitioners will discuss recent developments, key immigration trends and hot topics.  The conference speakers will discuss the potential impact of proposed or enacted provisions and initiatives on an issue-by-issue basis as well as important practical tips for immigration law practitioners.

What You Will Learn 

  • The latest updates about executive immigration reform and the effects it may have on your practice
  • Opportunities and challenges in H-1B - practice, problems, solutions and recent developments
  • Focusing in on the permanent labor certification program (PERM) – has the improving economy and changes at USDOL affected adjudications?
  • Continuing challenges for mobile entrepreneurs
  • E-verify and workplace enforcement – risk analysis and compliance in a shifting federal and state environment – protecting employers from immigration related penalties
  • Visa program developments
  • Re-uniting families – effects of the President’s initiatives.Relief from removal for the undocumented – Administration enforcement priorities in an evolving political climate
  • Marriage and family – effects of the same-sex marriage decision, unlawful presence waiver issues, filing family-based cases abroad
  • Understanding what information the government gathers and what it can share
  • Ethics for the immigration practitioner 

Who Should Attend

Attorneys (at all levels of practice) specializing in immigration law, who work with immigration matters as part of a diverse practice, or in-house counsel and personnel managers who have responsibility for employment and immigration matters.

Credit Details