Business and Humanitarian Immigration: Strategies for Representing Employers and Employees with Humanitarian Protections
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance to business immigration attorneys on strategies for representing employees and employers where employees hold humanitarian protections such as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or asylum and the employees seek permanent residency. The panel will also discuss the streamlined process for D-3 waivers for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as well as the potential implications of the new administration.
Outline
- Understanding humanitarian protections
- TPS
- Asylum
- DACA
- Eligibility for employment
- TPS and asylum holders
- Challenges and legal issues in maintaining employment while under humanitarian protection
- Effect on sponsorship for employment-based immigration petitions
- DACA and Dreamers
- TPS and asylum holders
- Pathways to permanent residency
- TPS or asylum to lawful permanent residency
- DACA: complexities and limitations
- Managing transitions between statuses
- Simultaneous or sequential petitions
- Impact of humanitarian protections on employment-based visas
- Legal and ethical considerations
- Managing client expectations and ethical concerns
- Avoiding common pitfalls in petitioning for business visas
- Implications of the new presidential administration
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the key elements of TPS and asylum for those seeking work authorization and eventual permanent residency in the U.S.?
- What are the contours of the streamlined D-3 waiver process?
- What are strategies and best practices for navigating the interplay of business immigration petitions and humanitarian protections?
- Will it become more difficult to obtain permanent residency under the new administration?
- What are the potential impacts of the new administration on business immigration for those protected under humanitarian categories?
Faculty
Beata Leja
Principal
Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan
Ms. Leja is a principal at the law firm of Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. Her practice includes... | Read More
Ms. Leja is a principal at the law firm of Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. Her practice includes both employment-based and family-based immigration law. Ms. Leja is also an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, teaching Business Aspects of Immigration Law, and serves as a Board Member for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national organization that advocates for the rights and best interests of immigrant children in removal proceedings. She was inspired to practice immigration law based on her own personal immigration story. Ms. Leja was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States when she was 8 years old. Her personal journey was featured in Super Lawyers Magazine.
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Tejas Shah
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg
Mr. Shah has the ability to take the complex and confusing nature of immigration law and simplify it for his clients.... | Read More
Mr. Shah has the ability to take the complex and confusing nature of immigration law and simplify it for his clients. His goal is to not only help them comply with the multifaceted requirements of U.S. immigration law, but also to ensure that as clients source global talent, they thrive in environments that can be hostile to migration. Mr. Shah also counsels employers who seek assistance and counsel on self-audits and responding to I-9 audits by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration (SSA) no-match letters, and Department of Labor wage and hour audits of H-1B workers. He also maintains a pro bono practice assisting individuals and families through the National Immigrant Justice Center and Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.
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