PLI: 48th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute

48th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute

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New York City Seminar Location

PLI New York Center, 1177 Avenue of the Americas, (2nd floor), entrance on 45th Street, New York, New York 10036.  

 Day One: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

9:00 Introduction

Cynthia J. Lange

9:15 Washington Update – Continuing Prospects for Legislative and Administrative Changes

• Where things stand with Administrative Reform: Executive Actions and the response
• Legislative review: Scenarios for future action
• Outlook for 2016

Austin T. Fragomen, Jr.

10:15 New USCIS Policies and Processes Affecting Business Immigration Practitioners

• Impact of the USCIS L-1B
• Implementation of the Simeio decision
• New administrative and regulatory initiatives at USCIS
• Changes to expect at the consulates for business applicants

 Cynthia J. Lange, Robin K. Paulino

11:30 Networking Break

11:45 Emerging Developments at the State Department and American Consulates

• Visa Bulletin changes
• Working with the National Visa Center
• Emerging developments in nonimmigrant visa processing
• Visa Bulletin projections

 Suzanne B. Seltzer

12:45 Lunch

2:00 The Current and Future PERM Process

• Update from new leadership
• General processing update
• Adapting to a changing recruitment environment: prospects for PERM re-engineering
• New trends in PERM audits
• Update on supervised recruitment

 Deborah J. Notkin, Pamela Partenheimer Mick

3:15 Networking Break

3:30 Emerging Trends in Government Investigations: E-Verify and Other “Safe Harbors”

• E-Verify – Trends and best practices
• I-9 Investigations – E-Verify or not?
• Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) visit – How to prepare and what happens next
• Anatomy of an Labor Condition Application (LCA) Wage and Hour Investigation – Being ready 

Angelo A. Paparelli, Mary E. Pivec

5:00 Adjourn

Day Two: 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

9:00 Marriage and the Family

• Impact of the same-sex marriage decision on immigration processing
• Provisional unlawful presence waivers – Expansion and demonstrating extreme hardship
• Filing family-based cases abroad – Does it still happen?
• Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) developments and practice
• K Visa issues 

Charles H. Kuck, Cyrus D. Mehta

10:00 Asylum, Removal and Relief

• Legal implications of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
• Deferred action and other remedies outside of DACA – Should you ever have your client placed in removal proceedings?
• Relief under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
• Emerging developments in asylum practice
• Representing unaccompanied minors in removal proceedings 

Ellen Gallagher, Mark von Sternberg

11:00 Networking Break

11:15 What the Government Knows and Who It Can Tell

• Background checks
• FOIA
• Using publicly available information
• Intra-governmental information sharing
• What is private anymore? 

Ted J. Chiappari, Ira J. Kurzban

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Challenges to Entrepreneurs Coming to the United States

• Standalone investments and Regional Centers: Differences in preparation and process
• Entrepreneurs in Residence Program:  has it helped?
• Removing conditions to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status
• Advising on the business aspects of the process, or not? 

Robert C. Divine, Carolyn S. Lee

2:30 Ethics in Immigration Practice: Where Zealous Representation Starts and Ends

• New ethical challenges in the digital age
• What is privileged and confidential and what is not
• What happens to a client when a lawyer resigns or dies?
• New issues in representing multiple parties  

Prof. Lenni B. Benson, Robert E. Juceam

3:30 Networking Break

3:45 Peering into the Future of Immigration Law and Practice

• Getting ready for immigration reform and legalization:  what to do and what’s next?
• How will the practice of law change with immigration reform, and without it?
• How can companies bring in needed workers as the economy expands but the government pushes back?
• New ethical challenges for immigration practitioners
• Predictions for the future 

Robert C. Divine, Cynthia J. Lange, Robin K. Paulino, Peter T. Schiron, Jr.

4:45 Adjourn