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Solving PERM Practice Problems

Speakers: Robert Loughran, Bill Coffman, Lori S. Melton, Angelo Paparelli, Rebecca Sigmund and Other Speakers To Be Announced

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 11:59PM (ET), June 3, 2008

Seminar Outline Speaker bios Testimonials REGISTER NOW!

Each call features an hour of analysis, strategy and practice tips, followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers from participants.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

FIRST Phone Session on April 17th: Managing a PERM Labor Certification Program in Unique Circumstances

  • Roving Employees
    • Recruitment; ad content and media choice
    • Posting Notices; all in-house media if jobs are posted on intranet
    • Disqualification of U.S. workers; address travel requirements
    • Filing with the new Form ETA-9089
  • Reductions in Force:
    • When and how to file (timing with respect to RIF)
    • Notice & opportunity for RIF'd U.S. workers to apply for the PERM positions
    • Disqualification of U.S. workers
    • Documentation to secure in advance of filing
    • The new Form ETA-9089

SECOND Phone Session on May 15th: Audit Preparation & Response

  • Normal Requirements
  • What affect will travel have on the AOS application?
  • Employee gained experience while working with the employer
  • Business Necessity Arguments & Documentation for
    • Exceeding SVP
    • Foreign Language
    • Special Requirements
  • Demonstrating that skills could not be acquired during a reasonable period of on-the-job training
  • Mergers & Acquisitions-impact on PERM filings; documentation to secure in advance; successor-in-interest

THIRD Phone Session on June 5th: Evaluation & Disqualification of U.S. Workers

  • Basic Elements & Time Frames of a Good Faith Recruitment Campaign
  • Disqualification of U.S. Workers-failure to meet experience requirement, education requirement, special requirements
  • Proving the employer meant it when agreeing to accept any suitable combination of education, training, and work experience
  • Demonstrating that skills could not be acquired during a reasonable period of on-the-job training

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Robert Loughran (Discussion Leader) is with the law firm of Tindall & Foster, P.C. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Liaison to San Antonio District Office of Department of Homeland Security from 2002-present. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Committee on Laws Relating to Immigration and Nationality (2000-2002, 2004). He is Vice Chair of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Laws Relating to Immigration and Nationality (2005 - present), Texas Super Lawyer (2004, 2005), State Bar of Texas, International Law Section, Austin Bar Association, College of the State Bar of Texas, Board Certified-Immigration and Nationality Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is admitted to practice in U.S. Court of Appeals (5th Cir.) and U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas. He is in the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2000-present and British American Business Association 1996-present. He is fluent in Spanish and has studied international and comparative law in Concepcion, Chile (1988-1989) and Madrid, Spain (1991). He was Named Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly and Law and Politics Magazines in October 2004 and October 2005, United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast Award for Professional Service in 1994 and Associated Catholic Charities Award for Professional Service in 2000.

Bill Coffman is an associate practicing in the Immigration Section in the law firm of Mintz Levin, et al. His legal work focuses on U.S. immigration and nationality law as well as outbound emigration and related international law. Bill regularly represents clients in immigration matters before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Labor, as well as before U.S. and foreign consulates. He authored "Organization Membership and Political Opinion as Grounds for Refugee Status" for the 1996 Winter issue of the Houston Journal of International Law and he co-authored "The Changing Face of Equal Protection: Gender Bias In U.S. Citizenship Law," for the March 1995 issue of Immigration Briefings.

Lori S. Melton has practiced exclusively in the area of immigration law since 1998. Most recently, she was a senior associate with Littler Global before joining Fragomen's Phoenix, AZ office in 2008. Lori has extensive experience in business immigration as well as family-based immigration and asylum law. She has represented Fortune 500 clients from the software, retail, semiconductor, telecommunications, financial, hospitality, education, and healthcare industries.

Angelo Paparelli is the Managing Partner of Paparelli & Partners LLP, an immigration-law specialty firm with offices in NY, NY and Irvine, CA. He serves as President of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers, a global network of 29 immigration law firms vetted for practice excellence and client service. Named the world's leading corporate immigration lawyer (2005 & 2006, International Who's Who of Business Lawyers) and a first-tier business immigration lawyer (2008, Chambers USA). Paparelli co-authors the New York Law Journal's "Immigration" column, writes a blog, and serves as an expert witness/consultant on immigration legal issues to law firms and businesses.

Rebecca Sigmund is a shareholder of Ogletree Deakins and practices out of the Atlanta and Greenville SC offices. She advises companies on immigration alternatives for prospective employees as well as matters relating to employment eligibility and verification of workers. Ms. Sigmund speaks and writes regularly on immigration law topics for a variety of professional, business and civic groups and served as a past president of the Georgia Alabama Chapter, the Board of Governors and various national committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ms. Sigmund also has an active pro bono practice representing immigrant survivors of domestic violence, trafficking and other violent crimes. She was the recipient of the 2006 S. Phillip Heiner Award presented by the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation for Community Pro Bono Services as well as the recipient of her previous firm's Pro Bono Award. Ranked as a Georgia Immigration Notable Practitioner in the 2006 and 2007 Chambers USA rankings (Band 2), Ms. Sigmund is listed as one of Georgia's Super Lawyers.

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$199 Seminar Package 
Includes one (1) seminar
Select your date:
Thursday, June 5, 2008

All seminars occur 2:00-3:30pm EST
(11:00-12:30 PST)

Registration deadline is
11.59 pm (ET), June 3rd!
$499 Seminar Package 
Save by signing up for all three (3) seminars. Includes all three dates:
Audio CD of Thur, Apr 17, 2008 (90 Minutes)
Audio CD of Thur, May 15, 2008 (90 Minutes)
Thursday, June 5, 2008

All seminars occur 2:00-3:30pm EST
(11:00-12:30 PST)

Registration deadline is
11.59 pm (ET), June 3rd!

If you prefer to sign up by mail or fax click here for the order form

Disclaimer: participation in this seminar does not create an attorney-client relationship with the speakers


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