Immigration and Employment Law 2017
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:40 pm
Current Status of Employment-Based Immigration
R. Calderaro
Permanent and temporary work-based immigration
Most recent statistics
Current issues in play
H-1B: Foreign Professionals in Specialty Occupations
S. Santos
Eligibility requirements
Quota limitations and planning considerations
Department of Labor requirements
Status duration and exceptions
Process steps
EB-1 and EB-2
K. Fonte
Employer sponsored petitions:
EB 1-2 Outstanding Professors and researchers
EB 1-3 International Executives and managers
Self-sponsored petitions:
EB 1-1 Aliens of Extraordinary Ability
EB 2-2 Aliens with Advanced Degrees or Exceptional Ability and National Interest Waiver (NIW)
New precedent AAO NIW Decision Matter of Dhanasar
EB-3
D. Nero
The labor certification process
The employment visa petition
Reaching the visa priority date and filing for permanent residency
Typical issues: timing of process; prevailing wage determination; maintaining nonimmigrant visa status;
portability; and ability to pay the wage
L-1A and L-1B: Intracompany Transferees
C. Arce
Eligibility
Visa duration
Requirements
Petition process
Wage, hour and other labor-law issues
Anticipated Issues/Developments
S. Movassaghi
Pending/proposed federal and state legislation and regulations
Executive orders
Credits
Florida Attorneys
8.0 CLE Credits
Florida Attorney
Certification Credits
8.0 Immigration and Nationality Law
8.0 Labor and Employment Law
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and is approved by The Florida Bar for 8.0 general CLE credits. This program has been certified for 8.0 credits in Immigration and Nationality Law and 8.0 credits in Labor and Employment Law.
The Florida Bar approval qualifies this program for 8.0 CLE credits for Florida paralegals.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Carmen Arce
Arce Immigration Law, P.A.Arce Immigration Law, P.A.Ms. Arce is board certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by The Florida Bar. She has more than 15 years of experience handling all types of Immigration cases. Her firm represents individuals, families, employers, and employees throughout the U.S. and abroad in all their immigration matters. Ms. Arce is an active member of The American Immigration Lawyers Association and is a former chair of the Florida Bar Board Certification Committee for Immigration & Nationality Law. She earned her J.D. degree from Texas Tech University School of Law.
Renata Calderaro
The Calderaro Tyrrell Law GroupThe Calderaro Tyrrell Law GroupMs. Calderaro provides practical and innovative strategies to domestic and foreign employers regarding U.S. immigration laws, regulations and employment compliance matters. She has assisted hundreds of companies, investors, professionals and skilled workers in obtaining immigrant and nonimmigrant visas throughout the years. Ms. Calderaro focuses her practice on business professionals in many different types of organizations, including higher education, health care, financial, religious, trade and entertainment. She is frequently quoted in the media regarding immigration matters and speaks throughout North and Latin America on immigration-related issues.Ms. Calderaro earned her J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law.
Kari Fonte
Fonte Immigration Firm, P.L.President of Fonte Immigration Firm, P.L.Ms. Fonte is experienced immigration lawyer with more than 21 years of experience, and is board certified by The Florida Bar as a specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. She is one of the top immigration lawyers in Florida, where she most recently served as the president of the AILA South Florida Chapter. Ms. Fonte is a recognized speaker and commentator on U.S. immigration issues and counsels clients from across the world, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Her areas of practice include all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, including employment-based and family-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, adjustment of status, naturalization, asylum, removal, waivers, consular processing, and appeals. She practices before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureaus of Citizenship & Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection; Administrative Appeals Office; U.S. Department of State; U.S. Department of Labor; Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals; Immigration Court; and Board of Immigration Appeals. Ms. Fonte earned her J.D. degree from Florida State University.
Saman Movassaghi
Florida Immigration Law CounselFlorida Immigration Law CounselSaman Movassaghi is the founder and managing attorney at the Florida Immigration Law Counsel. With over 13 years of experience as an immigration attorney, she caters to both corporate and individual clients with an emphasis on employment, family and adjustment-related matters. Ms. Movassaghi Gonzalez is very experienced in obtaining certified labor certifications with the Department of Labor and filing employment-based petitions. In addition to adjustment-based petitioner and consular processing cases, she is well-versed in various skilled and unskilled employment-based visas such as Hs, Ls, and E visas. She also handles removal and deportation cases and regularly defends foreign nationals in immigration court. She earned her J.D. degree from the St. Thomas University School of Law at the age of 22. Ms. Movassaghi Gonzalez speaks regularly on various immigration and diversity issues throughout the State of Florida. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Iranian American Bar Association, and she is on the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion with The Florida Bar and on serves on the Executive Board of a PAC called EMERGE USA. She is also an adjunct professor at Nova University School of Law where she teaches Employment Immigration.
Deirdre Nero
Nero Immigration Law, P.L.Nero Immigration Law, P.L.Ms. Nero started her own immigration and nationality law practice in 2009 after having practiced in two large law firms for several years. She previously served as the attorney in charge of the Individual and Small/Medium Company division at the Coral Gables, Florida, office of a major international immigration law firm; and prior to that as an attorney in the International and Immigration and Nationality Law Groups for a domestic and international commercial law firm in Florida. Ms. Nero led that firm’s immigration practice from 2006-2008. Her practice focuses on all types of business immigration including employment-based immigrant (permanent residency) and nonimmigrant (temporary) visa petitions, and related business immigration matters. She has extensive experience with PERM Labor certification applications and also routinely handles family immigration matters and naturalizations. Ms. Nero works closely with small and medium companies and individual clients to personally coordinate and execute all aspects of the client’s Immigration strategy and represent them in front of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of State. She represents clients in all 50 States and from countries around the globe. She frequently lectures and writes on Immigration related topics in both Spanish and English.
Solimar Santos
Solimar Santos, P.A.Founder of Solimar Santos, P.A.Ms. Santos focuses her practice on complex business immigration matters for prominent individuals and the employees of corporate clients. She has successfully represented doctors, researchers, business executives, engineers, entertainers, athletes and high-tech workers, and has broad experience with all nonimmigrant visas and permanent residency petitions based on labor certification applications and on extraordinary ability. Upon completion of law school, Ms. Santos spent almost four years as an associate attorney at a private civil litigation firm. She learned, however, that her true interest, passion, and calling was to be of service to those who seek the opportunity to live and work lawfully in the United States. She subsequently worked at two premier immigration law firms over the last decade, gaining extensive knowledge and experience in the practice of immigration law. Ms. Santos earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law.