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Curriculum For Adjustment Of Status Seminar
The following is the curriculum for "Advanced Issues In Adjustment Of
Status" with H. Ronald Klasko and Tammy Fox-Isicoff:
FIRST Phone Session on May 27:
- Choosing Adjustment of Status or Consular Processing -- the best of two
evils
- who's eligible to adjust?
- when consul processing is the best choice
- impact of 3 and 10 year bars
- changing from adjustment to consul processing
- jurisdiction issues
- Adjustment of Status for status violators -- the search for statutory
exceptions
- failure to maintain status before and after filing
- unauthorized employment
- impact of layoffs and lapses of employment
- discretionary adjustment
- impact of failure to do special registration
- impact of leaving and returning
- 245(c)(2), 245(c)(7), 245(c)(8), 245(k)
- 245(i) grandfathering -- resolved and unresolved issues
SECOND Phone Session on June 24:
- Concurrent Processing -- is it always the best alternative?
- advantages and disadvantages
- strategy decisions
- Actions subsequent to filing -- strategies for work and travel
- extending nonimmigrant status or EAD
- travel with H or L visa or advance parole
- travel by derivatives
- extension of nonimmigrant status by parolee
- Adjustment Portability -- entering The Twilight Zone
- applicability to aliens who leave before 180 days
- impact of employer revocation of petition
- applicability to concurrent processing
- impact of prevailing wage and employer financial ability issues
- applicability to multinational managers
- applicability to part-time employment
- strategies for proving "similar occupation"
- applicability to consular processing
- responding to RFEs
THIRD Phone Session on July 23:
- Child Status Protection Act -- strategies to protect your children
- issues regarding BCIS and DOS implementation
- effective date issues
- concurrent processing issues
- protecting following to join children
- adjustment of status vs. consul processing
- unresolved issues and open questions
- attorney strategy and due diligence issues
- Adjustment of status of special classes -- the search for alternatives
- exchange visitors with two year return requirements
- fiancées who don't marry
- after-acquired spouses
- conditional resident investors
- immigrants
- national interest waiver doctors
- asylees adjusting through family or employment
- upgraded and downgraded family member
- adjustment without petitions
- Hot Topics -- What's Behind Door Number 3?
- impact of DHS
- new security screening: will adjustment and consular processing slow
to a halt?
- predicting the unpredictable
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speaker bios, and registration information, please see: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/may2003.shtm. For the fax version, please see: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/may2003.pdf.
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Perhaps it is
Immigration Daily, which is confused.
You stated in your June 10 editorial, "the fact
that most anti-immigrationists consider themselves on
the political right should be cause for
embarrassment." Most? Many anti-immigrationists are
Democrats who are against free trade and capitalism.
Ever heard of unions? Or the
Democrats and the unions opposing NAFTA in the 90s?
I don't know the political affiliation of Mr. Rob
Sanchez but I would bet he's a left-leaning union
supporter. So, just because he's against the H-1B
program, which is a nonimmigrant visa anyway, you
label him an anti-immigrationist who's on the
political right. This is ridiculous. Most people on
the right support the wide-open free trade and
laissez-faire capitalism (or close to it) that Sanchez
lashes out against in his exchange with Greg Siskind.
So, please get your political points in order.
Liem Doan, Esq.
Dear Editor:
When slogans replace reasoning, when words are not used for their meaning
but for their ability to scare, when flags are unfurled as arguments
against reason, civilization is in danger.
I see a lot of bile in the correspondance of Mr. Sanchez to Mr. Siskind,
published in the latest Immigration Daily. This is unfortunate, and would
ordinarily make me guardedly skeptical of Mr. Sanchez's
arguments. But my reaction to Mr. Sanchez's bile is nothing compared to
my reaction to Mr. Siskind's replies, in which Mr. Siskind offers nothing
more than slogans, flags, and words made meaningless through trite use.
This is not to say that I do not appreciate passionate zeal, come from
where it may. But I fear zeal that is also self-assured and that
unthinkingly adopts comfortable assumptions that are too simplistic to
possibly be true.
Mr. Siskind brands everyone who does not fully subscribe to libertarian
principles as "socialist"
(I gather this is an insult to him, just like "libertarian" is an insult to
some), and suggests they
are also against freedom. He basically excludes
those who do not fully share his opinions from the country he has built in
his imagination. He equates
disagreement with treason, more or less.
I am pro immigration. I am no socialist. But, in
a hypothetical world where everybody would have to be
aligned for or against everything, I would have to choose to be against the
decadence of reason Mr. Siskind displays.
This is, respectfully, my opinion.
Name Not Provided
Dear Editor:
I don't think anyone would characterize me as being "anti-immigration," but I myself am ambivalent about H1-B visas. My own son, a computer programmer, recently lost his job, apparently to downsizing, not long after he asked for help on behalf of an Indian colleague, an H1-B who was being exploited by the employer (i.e., not being paid what he was supposed to receive). Now my son is unemployed, the H1-B continues to be exploited, and some people on both sides of the debate about H1-Bs are mouthing a bunch of stupidities based more on ideology than analysis of the pros and cons of the current system. The articles, and the editorial, were so painful that I couldn't finish reading them.
Lisa S. Brodyaga
Dear Editor:
Bravo to Greg Siskind for coherently and intelligently dealing with Mr.
Sanchez' on the subject of immigration, government and economic philosophy. Mr. Sanchez tries to support his own views with
ill-informed
argument and illogical suppositions. I do not know Mr.
Sanchez' background, but if he is a US worker trying to defend his
employability against the highly-skilled and intelligent H-1B workers
utilized by companies and who help our economy flourish, he is sadly
mistaken if he thinks the written arguments presented in his diatribe
against Greg Siskind will convince anyone.
Jill H. Stover
Immigration Paralegal, BP America Inc.
Dear Editor:
I agree 100% with the letter to the Editor that suggested $5,000 in BCIS fees for an expedited green card.
Why? If immigrant people all over America are losing money in the hands of "Immigration dispatchers" (they are not lawyers and charge up to $6,000 per person) with the false hopes of legalization that many times ends in deportation, as well as money lost in 245(i) and other legal processes that will take a lifetime to resolve, it's a much better option.
There are immigrants that are hard working people, and are willing to pay even more than $5,000 for the peace of mind to secure their rights to pursue their dreams.
They are very successful business people, cleaning houses, working as landscaping contractors, in full and part time jobs at the same time, etc.. and $5,000 may not a burden for them.
Many of them have more than me, a Swiss descendant, with blue eyes and blond hair, and who doesn't want to submit myself to all that hard work. They really work hard and I am a witness of that.
The expedited process can be tiered, with a corresponding higher fee charged in exchange for faster processing times. For example, a $5,000 fee would allow you to obtain a green card in 12 months, $7,500 for a 6-mos. wait and $10,000 for a premium 30 day processing time, with an "on the spot work permit" issued at the time of the full payment (deducting attorney fees if used in the process).
The process would also include a thorough security background check.
The immigrants will benefit from the expedited green card by having a reliable method to achieve his/her green card process.
The BCIS will collect at least $50,000,000,000 if we really have 10,000,000 undocumented immigrants in the US. That will be enough to create jobs for many Americans needed to work at the BCIS, and help to ease the current federal deficit that is at an all-time high.
M. Schwartz
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