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What to Expect in 2017 and Beyond for Immigration Law for Employers under Trump Administration
H-1B Visas
- Consider ways to make the process for allocating H-1B visas more efficient and ensure beneficiaries are the best and the brightest
- Possible changes – take Congressional action
1. End of lottery, instead base issuance of visas on level and type of degree – Masters and above in STEM would be highest and highest prevailing wage
2. Raise minimum prevailing wage on H-1B jobs
3. Reduce the number of H-1B Visas
4. Requirement that must advertise (like employment-based green cards) before hiring H-1B Visa holder
- More site visits
L Visas
- Within 180 days of EO, USCIS start making site visits of L-1 non-immigrant workers, including 3d party worksites
OPT / STEM
- Propose regulation for Notice and Comment to reform practical training programs for foreign students to prevent the disadvantaging of US students in the workforce
Immigration Compliance and Enforcement
- Expansion of E-Verify
1. Probably take new regulations to make more employers mandatory
2. iTake Congressional action to make fully mandatory
- More ICE audits
- ICE detain all employees who are undocumented
- Return of ICE raids
TN Visas
- If NAFTA is cancelled, then all TN Visas will be cancelled
Overview of the webinar
Immigration law is already undergoing massive changes with the travel ban and building the wall. But it will also be changing in ways that will directly affect employers. Some of the areas that will see the change which will impact employers is immigration compliance – will ICE be more active in their audits and maybe a return to raids.
Visas is another area that will see change. There are many proposals to change the ever-popular H-1B visas. Plus, the Trump administration has already committed to crack down on abuses of the H-1B and L visas through more site visits. If Trump withdraws from NAFTA, then all TN visas are void. Will OPT STEM remain the same or face changes?
Who should attend?
- HR Managers
- Office Managers
- Compliance Officers
- Owners
- CFOs
- Attorneys
- Human Resource Professionals
Why should you attend?
In recent months, President Trump has promised broad changes to immigration laws from building a border wall to cracking down on employers and rooting out visa fraud. This session discusses recent changes in immigration rules and how the Trump Administration may impact employment-related immigration rules in 2017 and beyond. If you want to be ahead of the game on what to expect as changes in immigration law that impact employers, then you should attend this webinar.
Faculty - Mr.Bruce Buchanan
Bruce E. Buchanan is a founding partner at Sebelist Buchanan Law PLLC with offices in Nashville and Atlanta, where he represents employers and individuals in all aspects of immigration law, with a special emphasis on employer immigration compliance and employers in employment/labor law matters. Additionally, he is Of Counsel to Siskind Susser concerning employer immigration compliance matters.
Mr. Buchanan received his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1982. He served as a senior trial specialist for the National Labor Relations Board for 20 years. Mr. Buchanan also served for 12 years as Adjunct Professor at William H. Bowen UALR School of Law. He went into private practice in 2003 and formed his own law firm in late 2015.
Bruce authors his own blog on employer immigration compliance for ilw.com, located at www.employerimmigration.com and is a regular contributor to HR Professionals Magazine. His book on Immigration Compliance for Employers will be published in 2017. Bruce is also the editor of the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Law Section Newsletter and past-Chair of the TBA's Immigration Law Section. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Arkansas and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and D.C. Circuits.