This hands-on course is for corporate HR or legal professionals who handle visa processing and/or immigration-related legal-compliance issues and for immigration coordinators who manage the services provided by outside immigration counsel. Topics to be discussed will include:

• Nonimmigrant work-visa processing, including H-1B, L-1, TN, O, J and F--practical training
• Immigrant visa processing, including labor certifications, petitions, adjustment of status, outstanding researchers
• Maintaining immigration-compliance files and conducting self-audits of I-9 records, LCA private and public inspection files
• Integrating immigration processing with the recruitment, relocation, tax and payroll departments of your company and post 9/11/01 INS reporting requirements
• Systems for real-time queries, searches and audit capabilities to ensure on-going immigration compliance and metrics to measure time and cost of processing immigration applications
• Review of comparative costs of various immigration processing models, using in-house personnel and/or outside counsel services
• Explanation of how corporations can reduce annual costs of immigration processing by utilizing technology and/or emerging business practices

This class will take place Saturday September 27, 2008 from 9:00 - 5:00 p.m. Credits from this class apply towards the Certificate Program in Human Resource Management. If you wish to attend please visit the link below to sign up.

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