Navigating H-1B Visa Lottery Challenges: Assessing Alternatives, Understanding Requirements, Strategic Tips
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will brief counsel on alternatives to the H-1B visa for employers seeking to hire or continue to employ foreign professionals not selected in the H-1B cap lottery in a given year.
Outline
- Receiving additional training or education
- OPT/STEM OPT
- Day-1 CPT
- H-3 trainee visa
- J-1 exchange visitor visas trainee, intern, or research scholar
- H-1B cap exemptions
- Country-specific visas
- Australia
- Chile and Singapore
- Canada and Mexico
- L-1 intracompany transferee visa
- Employment Authorization Document (EAD)
- O-1 extraordinary ability visa
- E-2 investor visa
- Spousal work authorization
- Permanent resident (green card) processing
Benefits
The panelists will review these and other key issues:
- Specific alternatives to the H-1B visa for foreign professionals
- Features, benefits, and limitations of each alternative
- Strategies for working around the H-1B cap
Faculty
Morgan Gillmor
Associate Attorney
McCown & Evans
Ms. Gillmor has been practicing immigration law since 2016. She dedicates her practice to assisting employers and... | Read More
Ms. Gillmor has been practicing immigration law since 2016. She dedicates her practice to assisting employers and individual clients on matters relating to employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. Ms. Gillmor has provided strategic counsel to clients of all sizes, from startups to small and medium-sized companies, as well as Fortune 500 companies. She is admitted to practice law in Washington, and is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ms. Gillmor is on the New Members Division (NMD) Steering Committee for AILA National, and serves as NMD Co-coordinator for AILA NorCal.
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Sharlyn Vareed
Attorney
McCown & Evans
Ms. Vareed has been practicing immigration law since 2014. She works with clients in a variety of industries,... | Read More
Ms. Vareed has been practicing immigration law since 2014. She works with clients in a variety of industries, advising them on all aspects of business immigration law, including temporary work visas and applications for permanent residence. Prior to joining McCown & Evans, Ms. Vareed practiced immigration law with a boutique business immigration firm counseling corporations, individuals and start-ups on employment-based petitions, including H-1Bs, L-1s, TNs, O-1s, labor certifications, immigrant visa petitions and applications for adjustment of status. She served as a Judicial Clerk for Trial Chamber II of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Holland, where she provided legal assistance to the Trial Chamber in the case of Prosecutor v. Goran Hadzic. Ms. Vareed also served as a Stevens Fellow in the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, where she assisted in the prosecution of the most senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge.
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