Seminar Outline

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Each call features an hour of analysis, strategy and practice tips by H. Ronald Klasko and Tammy Fox-Isicoff, followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers from participants.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

FIRST Phone Session on May 27:

1. 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

2. 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:

1. Concurrent Processing -- is it always the best alternative?
   • advantages and disadvantages
   • strategy decisions

2. 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

3. 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:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

Citations for Session 1      Citations for Session 2      Citations for Session 3
Question 1      Question 2      Question 3

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

H. Ronald Klasko is a partner and chair of the immigration law group at Dechert. A former national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), he served as its general counsel from 1996 to 1999. Ron is the 1999 recipient of the AILA Founders Award, bestowed on the individual or group who has the most important impact on immigration law. He has been a member of the board of governors of AILA since 1980 and formerly served as chair of the Association's Philadelphia Chapter. He has also served as national chair of the Business Immigration and the Task Forces on Employer Sanctions, H and L (business) Visas and Labor Certifications. He is the co-author of the two-volume Employers' Immigration Compliance Guide, a leading publication on the immigration laws affecting employers. A former adjunct professor of immigration law at Villanova University Law School, Ron is a frequent lecturer on immigration law and has appeared on national and local television and radio discussing immigration law issues. Ron has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America.

Tammy Fox-Isicoff is a graduate cum laude of the University of Miami School of Law. She joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1983 as a trial attorney with INS and went on to serve as Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for Immigration in the Southern District of Florida. She entered private practice in 1988, focusing on immigration. She has earned an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is certified by the Florida Bar as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. Ms. Fox-Isicoff is a past president of the South Florida chapter of AILA and currently serves on the national Board of Governors of AILA. She has chaired numerous committees at the AILA national level including the Media, Congressional and Bar Association Committees. Ms. Fox-Isicoff is the recipient of several presidential awards from AILA for her advocacy of immigrants. She has also been selected to represent AILA to the American Bar Association's Immigration Coordinating Committee and is a member of the Florida Bar's Certification Committee in Immigration and Nationality Law. She has served as a legal expert on immigration law for various news sources and has appeared on "NBC Today" and "The CBS Morning Show" on a number of occasions. Ms. Fox-Isicoff has published numerous articles on immigration topics and is a frequent local and national lecturer. Listed in the Best Lawyers in America and in South Florida Legal Guide as one of the top lawyers in South Florida, Ms. Fox-Isicoff is widely recognized as a national expert on all areas of immigration.

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