SECOND Phone Session on October (Date TBA), 2002:

DOS/INS Issues
This session will deal with DOS and INS positions on cutting edge issues, including:

• Child Status Protection Act
• Concurrent adjustment/consular processing issues
• Consular readjudication/revocation of INS-approved petitions
• 3 and 10 year bar waivers
• Travel by H-1B portable aliens
• Who is subject to the two-year return requirement?
• Accompanying or following to join

THIRD Phone Session on November 20, 2002:

• Summary of DOL/INS/DOS positions on cross-agency issues
• Practitioner pointers
• Miscellaneous issues and new developments

Jacqueline Bednarz, Special Assistant to the Executive Associate Commissioner for the Office of Policy and Planning of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C.

Steve Fischel, the Director of Legislation, Regulations and Advisory Assistance in the visa office of the Department of State.

Harry Sheinfeld, Litigation Counsel in the Employment and Training Legal Services Division, Office of the Solicitor, at the U.S. Department of Labor.