• Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
• Time: 11am – 12 Noon  PST.  For the time in your area: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
• RSVP:      info@immigrationsolution.net
• Who should Attend:  Employers who sponsor L-1A employees and employees who are going through the L-1A adjudication process
• Agenda:

1. What is the Intracompany Transferee L-1A Manager/Executive Visa?
2. What are the requirements?
3. What is the eligibility criteria to obtain an L-1A visa?
4. Why is it so difficult to obtain an L-1A visa in today’s business climate?
5. The insidious RFE’s and Intensified Scrutiny
6. Open Q&A

The regulations have not changed for obtaining L-1A visas, but the good old days are certainly over when entrepreneurs told you how easily they had obtained their L-1A visas and green-cards via the L route.  Now, you are more likely to hear people who have received L-1A visa approvals talk about what good jobs their attorneys did in ensuring compliance with the stringent standards that are being meticulously enforced by the USCIS.

Our Speaker for this Event will be:  Thomas J. Joy, Esq, Supervising Attorney, Immigration Solutions.  Formerly, Managing Partner Hirson Wexler Perl, Los Angeles, CA; Senior Attorney, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy; Supervising Attorney, Law Office of Bernard Wolfsdorf

This is a free teleconference for our clients and readership.  Dial in and access information will be provided a few days in advance of the conference call.  RSVP now to reserve your place on the call.

Yes – it’s the season to start preparing H-1B “cap” filings again for Fiscal Year 2011.

The USCIS FY starts on October 1st each year. Thus, fiscal year 2011 starts on October 1, 2010 and runs through September 30, 2011.  Regulations permit cap subject filings 6 months in advance of the October start date for cases to be received at USCIS on April 1, 2010.

The following are suggestions to help you for the upcoming cap season.  Our suggestions are based on existing law, as well as USCIS guidance and our experience from prior years.

USCIS frequently issues updated guidance with slight procedural variations for each fiscal year. For example, the LCA process changed in July – note it is taking sometimes up to 7 days to obtain an approval.  In case of a denial such as problems with verifying an employer’s EIN# which is quite common unfortunately, obtaining an LCA may take even longer.

Immigration Solutions is accepting H-1B cases for FY2011 at this time.  We have a team of experienced attorneys, case managers and paralegals in our business unit who are currently working on new H-1B cap-subject cases.  The cases will be prepared in advance and will be transmitted for delivery on March 31, 2010, for USCIS filing on April 1^st.  In order to file, it is necessary to have an appropriate job offer from a U.S. employer who is willing to sponsor the H-1B case.

The USCIS has increased scrutiny on all H-1B cases and imposed tougher standards, particularly those filed in the IT consulting industry and for software companies. These new standards also affect healthcare staffing agencies that place workers at 3^rd party jobsites.   The standards for approval have become more stringent. It is necessary to recognize this trend when preparing new H-1B cap cases for filing.  For this reason, we recommend that you work with an experienced law firm that specializes in employment-based immigration. Click here to contact us for your new H-1B case now.

NOTE:  Immigration Solutions is sponsoring a free teleconference on February 10^th that will address the tougher standards in the H-1B category.  For more on this and to RSVP, we link to our blog

Details

When: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon PST
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RSVP: info@immigrationsolution.net

Reserve your space now | This will be a most informative teleconference that you will not want to miss.

Our Agenda will be as follows:

• How to prepare for H-1B quota issues
• Tougher standards (difficult RFEs)
• We will review the new 19-page USCIS Memo regarding employer-employee relationships
• Critical new information for Healthcare and IT staffing agencies
• New Documentation Requirements
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform and expectations for 2010
• Open Q&A

In this conference, we will convey critical and comprehensive information to our clients and readership which we are making public and are offering at no charge.

In the last year, signs have been in place concerning greater enforcement and over-burdensome Requests For Evidence (RFE’s) by USCIS, including site visits by 4 federal agencies (USCIS, DHS, FDNS and DOL).  Higher standards are being imposed with each filing season for all employers who file H-1B petitions for degreed professionals.

We are seeing that this is not just taking place with H-1B initial filings, but with extensions, L visas and we have even heard of site visits to employers who filed O-1 petitions.

Our Featured Speaker: Thomas Joy, Supervising Attorney | Immigration Solutions

Immigration Solutions’ supervising attorney, Thomas Joy, will moderate this conference.  Mr. Joy has over 25 years’ practicing immigration law with some of the leading firms in the nation.  Mr. Joy has been interviewed on television regarding current immigration issues, has published articles on various current immigration concerns, and has conducted seminars for corporations, law firms and professional organizations, both in and outside of the USA. He travels throughout the USA and the world representing clients at USCIS offices and US embassies and consulates. In addition, he advises and accompanies employers and recruiters on international recruitment drives who seek the top candidates in the IT and healthcare industries.

About Us

Immigration Solutions continues to be at the cutting edge of developments in business immigration. We are dedicated to providing our clients with the solutions required today to circumvent the complexities of immigration law. We understand the challenges that you deal with on a daily basis and design practical and strategic business models to answer your needs. This focused approach produces win-win results for everyone!

If you are not yet a client of Immigration Solutions, we would be pleased to speak further with you concerning your needs, our services & solutions, and our newly developed corporate rates.