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Consular Processing for ExpertsSpeakers: Jan Pederson, Greg Siskind, Jill Bussey, Ellen Freeman, Kehrela Hodkinson, Joanne Orizal, Laurel Scott, Heather Segal, Priscillia Suntoso, James Wolf and Elaine WittyAvailable Online!
Each call features an hour of analysis, strategy and practice tips, followed by questions and answers from participants. MCLE Credits in CA, TX and other states (click here for more details). SEMINAR OUTLINEFIRST Phone Session on April 20: NIV Issues
SECOND Phone Session on May 12: IV Issues
THIRD Phone Session on June 2: Waiver Practice in Consular Processing
ABOUT THE SPEAKERSJan Pederson (Discussion Leader) has been dedicated to the practice of immigration and nationality law for over twenty years. She has successfully represented thousands of clients and is masterful at resolving complex immigration issues. Ms. Pederson's impressive list of clients includes renowned physicians, urban and rural health care providers, Fortune 500 companies, television networks, entertainers, computer personnel and other professionals. She is a leading advocate for the rights of J-1 Physicians in the United States and has been key to the passage of legislation to benefit them. She is also the publisher of J-1 Physician News; and lectures nationally and internationally to foreign physicians. She seeks solutions for her clients beyond the immigration laws and does not hesitate to seek solutions from The White House and Congress, if necessary. She has been a key advocate on the restoration of the National Interest Waivers for J-1 Physicians and in increasing the Conrad State 20 J-1 Waiver Program to the Conrad State 30 Program. She served as president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA); as an elected director of the national Board of Governors of AILA for eighteen years. She has served as a chairperson of the Physicians Task Force of AILA for many years and has also served as chairperson of the AILA Visa Office Liaison Committee and Refugee Committee. She was the recipient of the prestigious national award, The Edith Lowenstein Award, in 1997 for excellence in the advancement of the practice of immigration law. Greg Siskind is a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee, office. After graduating magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, he received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago. Mr. Siskind is a member of AILA, a board member of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and a member of the ABA, where he serves on the LPM Publishing Board as Marketing Vice Chairman. He is the author of several books, including the J Visa Guidebook and The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet. Mr. Siskind practices all areas of immigration law, specializing in immigration matters of the health care and technology industries. He can be reached by email at gsiskind@visalaw.com. Jill Bussey leads our Global Immigration Practice, overseeing the development of project and individual case strategies to address the recruitment and transfer of human resources throughout the world. In this role she manages the visa and work permit needs of international professionals, managers, and executives. This area of her practice focuses on developing strategic relationships with a deep network of attorneys across the globe to develop highly specialized nonimmigrant and immigrant visa programs that address both long-term and short-term business needs. She works closely with clients to identify and advise them on matters of compliance, emerging trends and the potential implications on their business. She is adept at developing strategies to address unique immigration requirements for expatriates, including: U.S. permanent residents and dependents accepting long-term assignments abroad; accessing citizenship status to facilitate family-based immigration; and managing multiple destination assignments. With over a decade of experience in business immigration spanning a broad sector of industries including Fortune 500, government and private sector commercial entities, as well as non-governmental organizations, Jill has a deep understanding of the multiple drivers and participants involved in the immigration process. In addition to her Global Immigration experience, Jill gained extensive experience with U.S. immigration matters while she served as an attorney for a multi-practice global law firm in Washington, D.C. Jill's background in business law has made her particularly adept at advising organizations undergoing corporate changes and expansion to the U.S. She is experienced with all aspects of U.S. business immigration including nonimmigrant and immigrant categories and is an effective advocate for clients facing agency backlogs and challenges with issues related to their immigration status. Jill is an active member in her community and Member of the Board of Directors for a non-profit organization that serves the foreign-born community in Central Maryland. Ellen Freeman is of Counsel with international law firm K&L Gates LLP in Pittsburgh and has practiced in the area of immigration law for over 12 years. She is president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), serves on the AILA Board of Governors and is a member of the AILA Distance Learning Committee. Her practice focuses on employment-based immigration for scientists, researchers and medical professionals, primarily in the areas of biotech, health care and education. She also advises start-up and foreign companies/investors in corporate entity formation and establishment of U.S. operations. In addition, Ellen advises U.S. permanent residents throughout their temporary assignments abroad, complex family issues and citizenship process. She has frequently been quoted in the media and has written numerous articles on immigration issues that have appeared in business and legal trade publications. She is also a frequent speaker at national and regional immigration conferences. Ellen provide pro bono services for numerous international performing/entertaining groups, individual artists and orchestras. Ellen earned her J.D. and master's degrees in international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and holds a master's degree in Russian. Martindale-Hubbell has given Ellen an AV peer review rating. Kehrela Hodkinson was admitted to the California State Bar in 1980, after graduating from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She established her first law office in Los Angeles, California in 1982, where her practice concentrated on nonimmigrant visas and employment and family-based immigration matters. After moving to San Francisco, California in 1987, she founded a second immigration law firm and continued to provide expertise relating to temporary and permanent visas for business personnel and family-based immigration. Since 1994, Ms. Hodkinson has exclusively practiced US immigration and nationality law in London. Ms. Hodkinson represents a broad range of corporate and individual clients in connection with nonimmigrant visa matters, immigrant visa petitions, extraordinary ability petitions and family-based immigrant petitions. In addition, she provides advice relating to maintaining permanent resident status and expatriation issues. Ms. Hodkinson is a founding member of the Academy of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), a think tank dedicated to promoting best practices in immigration client service and law firm management and has been nominated by her peers to the International Who's Who of Business Immigration Lawyers. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and American Women Lawyers in London. Ms. Hodkinson is a frequent speaker at professional conferences regarding US visa processing in London and is often asked to testify before UK courts with respect to US immigration ramifications related to child custody matters and issues regarding treaty investor/treaty trader status. Joanne Orizal has practiced immigration law in greater New York for 25 years, both at large corporate law firms and in immigration boutiques. She has handled an array of immigration legal matters with a focus on business immigration. Laurel Scott is the Founding Attorney at Scott and Associates. She received a BA from Simon's Rock College, a Master's Degree from Duke University, and a Law Degree from Temple University where she completed the Temple University Immigration Law Clinical. She spent a year studying at the Queen's University of Belfast and completed an internship at the European Parliament. She started work on her first waiver of inadmissibility in 2003 and quickly realized that waivers were an ideal niche for her new firm. Over the years, she emerged as one of the nation's leading experts in this type of case, publishing numerous articles on the subject and speaking at many events for immigration lawyers. She currently volunteers on AILA's Refugee, Asylum and International Programs Committee, a group that advocates for improvements in CIS' procedures and policies. She travelled extensively prior to having children, spending over two months in each of the following countries: Belgium, Bolivia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Jamaica and the United Kingdom. She is the single mother of two children, Isaac (born 03/16/2001) and Anita (born 06/12/2003) Heather Segal is a partner at Guberman, Garson Immigration. She is widely recognized for her expertise in immigration law and she speaks regularly at conferences and seminars throughout the world. She practices exclusively in the area of Canadian immigration law and American Consular and Border immigration law. She is currently a Director on the AILA Board of Governors and has spoken at numerous AILA conferences. She is a member of the AILA Customs and Border Protection Liaison Committee. Ms. Segal is also Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce Cross Border Committee. She was voted by her peers as one of the world’s leading practitioners in corporation immigration law in Who’s Who Legal Corporate Immigration. She was the Chapter Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (2002-2004) and a liaison for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Buffalo District Office for AILA Canada (2002 – 2004). She has held the position of Vice Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (2000-2002) and Treasurer of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (1998-2000). As well, Ms Segal was a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association National Office Border Issues Committee (1999-2001) and served on the national AILA Border Watch Task Force (2001 – 2002). Priscillia Suntoso was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2002, after graduating from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. In 2005, she was admitted to the Massachusetts District Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2009, she was IDEAS-Indonesia Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An accomplished pianist, she also holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music and an MBA from Suffolk University. She has written many articles for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and other legal publications since 2001, and was Associate Editor for Immigration Option for Religious Workers (1st Edition, 2005). She has lectured on immigration law before many community organizations in U.S. and Indonesia. Between 2006 – 2009, she was a part of the President’s Advisory Council, Security and Defence Advisor’s Office in Jakarta, Indonesia, serving President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Currently, she practices at Jan H. Brown, P.C. in Manhattan, New York. James Wolf is a certified expert in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California and has been providing immigration services to major corporations since the late 1980's. He is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the University of California School of Law at Davis. The American Immigration Lawyers Association has designated James Wolf as an attorney mentor. In this capacity, he advises other immigration lawyers across the United States about complex business immigration issues. In addition, he has served as an immigration law trainer and presenter at various seminars and speaking engagements. Elaine Witty is founding partner of Witty Law Group, PLLC located in New York City. She is former Senior Counsel to AV rated national immigration law firm Siskind Susser in Memphis, TN. Ms. Witty is past Executive Director of the Office of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs at the Human Resources Administration under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. She also served as Director of Legal Affairs for Citizenship New York City, a mayoral citizenship initiative, developed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Ms. Witty is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section and Chair of the Legislative Committee of the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Committee. She is past Chapter Chair of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ms. Witty is the recipient of the Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Pro Bono Award in recognition of her tireless work on behalf of low-income Brooklynites. Ms. Witty has taught immigration law seminars at New York Law School, City University of New York, City Bar Association, Federal Bar Association Immigration Law and Labor Law Sections, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s National, Mid-South Chapter, New York Chapter, and Rome District Chapter Conferences. She is the author of numerous articles on immigration law including: overview of immigration law, consular processing, waivers of inadmissibility, religious worker eligibility, and immigration law for the family law practitioner. Ms. Witty is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women. She is admitted to practice in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Tennessee. Ms. Witty is admitted to the Federal Courts: the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Western District of Tennessee, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and, the United States Supreme Court. Her practice areas include employment based immigration, litigation and deportation defense, family based immigration with a specialty in waivers of inadmissibility, naturalization and derivative citizenship, and religious worker cases. She can be reached at elaine@wittylaw.com
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