Employment-Based Visas: New Rules and Deadlines for 2018

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Employment-Based Visas:

New Rules and Deadlines for 2018

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If you are planning to hire foreign workers in 2018 or beyond it is important to know that the complex employment visa system has become even more confusing and unsettled. New restrictions, new deadlines and dramatic new changes to employment-based visa programs – especially H1-B visas – are being pushed by the Trump Administration.

Don't get caught without knowing the rules on how to hire the best labor available, even if that means foreign-born assets.

On Friday, November 10, join your peers for an in-depth look at the options available for employers and HR professionals to move essential foreign-born talent to the United States – for short-term visits, mid-term assignments and permanent residency.

This incredibly timely webinar will be led by a true immigration law expert and Washington insider. Attorney Kevin Lashus is a former assistant chief counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Kevin will lead an in-depth discussion on how to navigate today's immigration system and the steps you need to take to secure various types of employment-based visas, including:

Short-term visits:

TN, for citizens of Canada or Mexico to work in the United States in certain activities

B1 (in lieu of H-1B), for certain short-term work projects or meetings

H-2, for one-time, seasonal or peak-load foreign hiring

Mid-term assignments:

H-1B, for certain foreign professionals in "specialty occupations"

E-1 and E-2, for certain workers involved in international trade or investment

L1, for foreign workers employed by companies abroad that are related to U.S. employers

O, for workers with special abilities in science, arts, education, business or athletics

Long-term:

EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, for certain foreign workers with extraordinary skills or advanced degrees

EB-5, for certain entrepreneurs and their families

Plus, you'll have the opportunity to ask attorney Kevin Lashus your specific questions about employment-visa issues and the changes occurring at the federal level.

Each year, thousands of employment-based immigrant visas are made available to qualified applicants. Many industries – including finance, health care and construction – already take full advantage of these rules. It's only a matter of time before all industries see the benefit. Don't fall behind.

On November 10, discover how your organization can take maximum benefit of U.S. work visa rules to hire the best and brightest from around the world.

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1khh: You are mixing between so-called globalization, and trade. Not every country which trades with others has to import people from the countries it trades with. Let's take wheat exports: Are you suggesting that since America sells wheat to the Mid East, that we should import ME's to work in those farms? How about Indian spices? Are you suggesting that India should import Europeans and Americans because we buy their spices? Furthermore, you will not hear anyone on this board suggesting that a branch of Intel in say China or Malaysia (as bad as that might be to promote) should not hire locals there. I think that now you see the gaping flaw in your logic.

So when Intel makes money from foreign countries by selling products there, it is completely fine to you. But when Intel imports foreign workers, it's a problem? Globalization is only fine as long as it benefits you?

Wow, I hope you don't reproduce, because I feel sorry for your children if that is the sense of morality and ethics they get from you.

Dear hss: You might want to keep in mind whose country this is! But then, you folks don't want America to have sovereignty and look after the welfare of its own people first. If you are not from here, then does the country you come from do the same thing that you are calling for?

@hss I am no white, but yeah the companies shouldn't be allowed to import workers at the expense of the citizens. Immigration should be beneficial to all citizens and not just the rich. Corporations are not people. Citizens are. Companies are free to get their work done in their foreign countries if they want without bringing workers here.

The funny thing: The same people who have been opposing affirmative action for minorities are now the ones who want some kind of affirmative action for themselves.

Before, it was: "Hire based on skill, not race or gender!"

Now it is: "Hire based on nationality, not skill!"

So cute to watch.

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