Three employment-based immigration bills were introduced in the US Senate in 2013, most notably the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act (S.744). This 800-page bill proposed strengthening border security, reforming visa programs, allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status, and increasing H-1B visa caps. Additionally, it shifted the allocation of employment-based green cards and removed per country limits, which would benefit countries like India and China. The bill also enhanced E-Verify requirements and increased fees and restrictions for H-1B and L-1 visas to deter fraud and abuse.
Presented by Corinne Wilson
The Mayor’s budget for the City of San Diego is likely to be released on or around April 15, 2013. Join us April 4 to learn how to read a city budget. In this workshop you will learn:
*how to identify key tables
*how to read a city budget
*budget terms and concepts
This workshop is put on by the Community Budget Alliance (CBA). The alliance is concerned that city resources be allotted equitably to neglected neighborhoods, and that city residents have early, meaningful opportunities to participate in designing the budget. CBA consists of more than 40 organizations in San Diego.
For more info visit: http://onlinecpi.org/event/how-to-read-the-budget-workshop/
Immigration Issues for Employers & Employees: The New Immigration Landscape U...Quarles & Brady
Learn about how government proposals will affect your company, and the new immigration liability landscape for employers under the Trump administration presented by Grant Sovern and Eric Ledbetter.
Presented by Corinne Wilson
The Mayor’s budget for the City of San Diego is likely to be released on or around April 15, 2013. Join us April 4 to learn how to read a city budget. In this workshop you will learn:
*how to identify key tables
*how to read a city budget
*budget terms and concepts
This workshop is put on by the Community Budget Alliance (CBA). The alliance is concerned that city resources be allotted equitably to neglected neighborhoods, and that city residents have early, meaningful opportunities to participate in designing the budget. CBA consists of more than 40 organizations in San Diego.
For more info visit: http://onlinecpi.org/event/how-to-read-the-budget-workshop/
Immigration Issues for Employers & Employees: The New Immigration Landscape U...Quarles & Brady
Learn about how government proposals will affect your company, and the new immigration liability landscape for employers under the Trump administration presented by Grant Sovern and Eric Ledbetter.
What the Trump Presidency Means for Int'l Entrepreneurs and their Visa Optionsideatoipo
Many people are a little (or very) concerned about what Donald Trump is going to do as President of the United States. Many foreign nationals are concerned about what visas will remain available to them.
With Trump’s election, inauguration, and campaign rhetoric and executive actions regarding immigration in mind, this event will cover the range of visas available to foreign national entrepreneurs, professionals and students who wish to live and work in the U.S.
The speaker will discuss:
1) Trump’s 10 point immigration plan
2) Obama’s international entrepreneur program that is scheduled to take effect on July 16, 2017
3) The most common temporary visas, such as the B-1, E, H-1B, J-1, L-1, and O-1, that continue to be available;
4) Common obstacles to obtaining a visa, and
5) The importance of maintaining lawful immigration status
and more!
The reason why immigration reform needs to be "grass roots" is because it impacts all of us that way. Foreign nationals are all around us. Their kids grew-up with your kids. You have shared barbecues and block parties with them and you have sat with them in Church or Temple on the weekends. When the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles surround a house in the community with sirens blaring, children watch and wonder what they may have done wrong..........
Business Law Training | Immigration for Employers: Staying Ahead of the Trump...Quarles & Brady
With the Trump administration adding thousands of new ICE enforcement officers and promising to focus more on worksite raids, site visits, and immigration-related audits and investigations, now is the time to ensure your organization is compliant with the immigration rules. Join us to learn the basics of the US immigration system and potential changes in the future so you can ensure your organization is compliant. We discussed the steps available to keep employees on the right immigration track and less anxious in connection with their visa and green card processes.
In the second term President Obama is going in great speed to tackle immigration issues on a top priority. After Ronald Reagan undertook some drastic reforms in immigration in 1986, no other President has been successful in going the whole hog with an ambitious agenda of immigration reforms combining accommodation, enforcement and encouragement of meritorious external talent.
In April 2013, the Senate ‘Gang of Eight’ released its proposal for overhauling our nation’s immigration system. Call the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (s.744), this bill proposes to eliminate the current immigration backlog, create new visa categories for high-skilled and skilled workers, overhaul our green card application system, and address the statuses of approximately 11 million undocumented workers in the United States.
Although only a bill at this point, this is the first serious effort by a bi-partisan group to address the immigration program in quite some time. In this informative webinar, attorneys Murali Bashyam and Ame Coats will educate the public on the bill and what they can expect if it, or something similar, is ultimately passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Fakhoury Global Immigration highlights the proposed H-1B changes under the Trump Administration. Also, the presentation covers the recent updates for the H-1B CAP, STEM OPT program & L-1 Visa filing. For more information or an in-depth analysis on the content featured go to www.fakhouryglobal.com / info@fakbhouryglobal.com
Above, VOXXI takes a look at some of the landmark events that led to the Senate approving — with a 68-32 vote — the immigration reform bill.
Read more: http://voxx.us/14AwTZW
Inside This Issue:
DCR National Temp Wage Index
I-Squared: Spoiling or Saving the U.S. Economy?
Economic Recovery brings Optimism to Temp Employment
Unemployment Crisis: Unearthing the Facts Behind Official Claims
Public or Private: Which Type of Job to Opt for?
What the Trump Presidency Means for Int'l Entrepreneurs and their Visa Optionsideatoipo
Many people are a little (or very) concerned about what Donald Trump is going to do as President of the United States. Many foreign nationals are concerned about what visas will remain available to them.
With Trump’s election, inauguration, and campaign rhetoric and executive actions regarding immigration in mind, this event will cover the range of visas available to foreign national entrepreneurs, professionals and students who wish to live and work in the U.S.
The speaker will discuss:
1) Trump’s 10 point immigration plan
2) Obama’s international entrepreneur program that is scheduled to take effect on July 16, 2017
3) The most common temporary visas, such as the B-1, E, H-1B, J-1, L-1, and O-1, that continue to be available;
4) Common obstacles to obtaining a visa, and
5) The importance of maintaining lawful immigration status
and more!
The reason why immigration reform needs to be "grass roots" is because it impacts all of us that way. Foreign nationals are all around us. Their kids grew-up with your kids. You have shared barbecues and block parties with them and you have sat with them in Church or Temple on the weekends. When the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles surround a house in the community with sirens blaring, children watch and wonder what they may have done wrong..........
Business Law Training | Immigration for Employers: Staying Ahead of the Trump...Quarles & Brady
With the Trump administration adding thousands of new ICE enforcement officers and promising to focus more on worksite raids, site visits, and immigration-related audits and investigations, now is the time to ensure your organization is compliant with the immigration rules. Join us to learn the basics of the US immigration system and potential changes in the future so you can ensure your organization is compliant. We discussed the steps available to keep employees on the right immigration track and less anxious in connection with their visa and green card processes.
In the second term President Obama is going in great speed to tackle immigration issues on a top priority. After Ronald Reagan undertook some drastic reforms in immigration in 1986, no other President has been successful in going the whole hog with an ambitious agenda of immigration reforms combining accommodation, enforcement and encouragement of meritorious external talent.
In April 2013, the Senate ‘Gang of Eight’ released its proposal for overhauling our nation’s immigration system. Call the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (s.744), this bill proposes to eliminate the current immigration backlog, create new visa categories for high-skilled and skilled workers, overhaul our green card application system, and address the statuses of approximately 11 million undocumented workers in the United States.
Although only a bill at this point, this is the first serious effort by a bi-partisan group to address the immigration program in quite some time. In this informative webinar, attorneys Murali Bashyam and Ame Coats will educate the public on the bill and what they can expect if it, or something similar, is ultimately passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Fakhoury Global Immigration highlights the proposed H-1B changes under the Trump Administration. Also, the presentation covers the recent updates for the H-1B CAP, STEM OPT program & L-1 Visa filing. For more information or an in-depth analysis on the content featured go to www.fakhouryglobal.com / info@fakbhouryglobal.com
Above, VOXXI takes a look at some of the landmark events that led to the Senate approving — with a 68-32 vote — the immigration reform bill.
Read more: http://voxx.us/14AwTZW
Inside This Issue:
DCR National Temp Wage Index
I-Squared: Spoiling or Saving the U.S. Economy?
Economic Recovery brings Optimism to Temp Employment
Unemployment Crisis: Unearthing the Facts Behind Official Claims
Public or Private: Which Type of Job to Opt for?
The cap will increase and decrease based on two factors: (1) the percentage by which cap subject nonimmigrant visa petitions approved for a fiscal year exceeds or fails to meet the cap (i.e., the demand), and (2) the percentage increase and decrease in the fiscal years with respect to the number of unemployed in the U.S. (i.e., the unemployment rate in the U.S.)
With respect to H-1B wage rates that are required to be paid, the Senate bill provides the following:
If the employer is an H-1B dependent employer, the employer must offer wages that are not less than Level 2 wages. As a result, H-1B dependent employers may not pay level 1 wages to an H-1B employee, as they are now permitted.
The bill provides new guidelines for computing the prevailing wage levels for most H-1B employers. It eliminates the four (4) level wage system that currently exists, and provides three (3) levels of wages, based on experience, education, and level of supervision, and provides new definitions with respect to those wage levels.
Level 1 is defined as the lowest two-thirds of wages surveyed by the government, but in no case less than 80% of the mean of the wages surveyed.
Level 2 is the mean of wages surveyed.
Level 3 shall be the mean of the highest two-thirds of wages surveyed.
These new definitions for Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 will likely result in H-1B employers to pay their H-1B workers more than what they currently may be paying them under the current wage level system.
If the H-1B employer is a nonprofit institution of higher education, the bill creates a four level (4) wage system.
Senate bill (S. 744) has provisions to reallocate the distribution of employment-based visas issued each fiscal year. Every fiscal year (October 1st to September 30th), the government allocates 140,000 employment-based visas. These employment based visas are divided by each employment-based category by percentage. Once the visas have been used up before the end of the fiscal year (because of demand), foreign nationals will have to wait until the next fiscal year in order to be issued an immigrant visa (i.e., green card), even if their priority date is current and their green card application is complete and ready to be approved.
By making the EB-1 category exempt from the numerical limitation of the 140,000 employment-based visas possible each fiscal year, it allows more people to receive immigrant visas (i.e., green cards), than would have in prior fiscal years.