ILW.COM - immigration news: INS/DOL/DOS Seminar Deadline Is Friday, October 11th

ILW.COM's seminar course "INS, DOS, DOL - The Search for Consistency" features Jacqueline Bednarz (INS), Steve Fischel (DOS) and Harry Sheinfeld (DOL). Leading the discussion will be distinguished practitioners Ron Klasko and Tammy Fox-Isicoff who are justly reputed to be dynamic and incisive speakers. Each of the seminar course's 3 sessions features 30 minutes of Q&A with the speakers.

Many complex immigration issues require resolution with more than one government agency. Examples include H-1B and adjustment portability, 245(i) labor certification grandfathering, ACWIA issues, 212 waiver issues, changes in location or salaries of H-1Bs, changes from adjustment of status to consular processing, substitution of experience for education, J-1 issues and consular readjudication of approved petitions.

Many opportunities exist to ask the INS or the DOL or the DOS for that agency's position on particular issues. However, this seminar is a rare opportunity to confront three of the most knowledgeable government officials in one forum to resolve issues where their respective agencies have taken contrary or inconsistent positions.

The following is the curriculum for "INS, DOS, DOL - The Search for Consistency"

FIRST Phone Session on September 10, 2002: DOL/INS Issues
This session will deal with DOL and INS positions on cutting edge issues including:

Start date of H-1B employment where issuance of social security number delayed

245(i) grandfathering based on withdrawn or denied labor certification applications

Effect of concurrent filing on labor certification substitutions

Impact of leaves of absence on H-1B aliens and employers

Effect of changes in employer structure, job description full-time status, salary and location of employment on LCA, I-129, ETA, I-140 and I-485

SECOND Phone Session on October 16, 2002: DOS/INS Issues
This session will deal with DOS and INS positions on cutting edge issues, including:

Child Status Protection Act
Concurrent adjustment/consular processing issues
Consular readjudication/revocation of INS-approved petitions
3 and 10 year bar waivers
Travel by H-1B portable aliens
Who is subject to the two-year return requirement?
Accompanying or following to join

THIRD Phone Session on November 20, 2002:

Summary of DOL/INS/DOS positions on cross-agency issues
Hot Issues at DOL, INS and DOS
Impact of formation of Homeland Security Department on DOL, INS, DOS
Post-election legislative forecast for the new Congress
2003 - a look ahead

Speakers for this seminar series include:

Jacqueline Bednarz, Special Assistant to the Executive Associate Commissioner for the Office of Policy and Planning of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C.

Steve Fischel, the Director of Legislation, Regulations and Advisory Assistance in the visa office of the Department of State.

Harry Sheinfeld, Litigation Counsel in the Employment and Training Legal Services Division, Office of the Solicitor, at the U.S. Department of Labor.

For more info, including registration information online, click here.
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