Curriculum For Adjustment Of Status Seminar
The following is the curriculum for "Advanced Issues In Adjustment Of
Status" with H. Ronald Klasko and Tammy Fox-Isicoff:
FIRST Phone Session on May 27:
- Choosing Adjustment of Status or Consular Processing -- the best of two
evils
- who's eligible to adjust?
- when consul processing is the best choice
- impact of 3 and 10 year bars
- changing from adjustment to consul processing
- jurisdiction issues
- Adjustment of Status for status violators -- the search for statutory
exceptions
- failure to maintain status before and after filing
- unauthorized employment
- impact of layoffs and lapses of employment
- discretionary adjustment
- impact of failure to do special registration
- impact of leaving and returning
- 245(c)(2), 245(c)(7), 245(c)(8), 245(k)
- 245(i) grandfathering -- resolved and unresolved issues
SECOND Phone Session on June 24:
- Concurrent Processing -- is it always the best alternative?
- advantages and disadvantages
- strategy decisions
- Actions subsequent to filing -- strategies for work and travel
- extending nonimmigrant status or EAD
- travel with H or L visa or advance parole
- travel by derivatives
- extension of nonimmigrant status by parolee
- Adjustment Portability -- entering The Twilight Zone
- applicability to aliens who leave before 180 days
- impact of employer revocation of petition
- applicability to concurrent processing
- impact of prevailing wage and employer financial ability issues
- applicability to multinational managers
- applicability to part-time employment
- strategies for proving "similar occupation"
- applicability to consular processing
- responding to RFEs
THIRD Phone Session on July 23:
- Child Status Protection Act -- strategies to protect your children
- issues regarding BCIS and DOS implementation
- effective date issues
- concurrent processing issues
- protecting following to join children
- adjustment of status vs. consul processing
- unresolved issues and open questions
- attorney strategy and due diligence issues
- Adjustment of status of special classes -- the search for alternatives
- exchange visitors with two year return requirements
- fiancées who don't marry
- after-acquired spouses
- conditional resident investors
- immigrants
- national interest waiver doctors
- asylees adjusting through family or employment
- upgraded and downgraded family member
- adjustment without petitions
- Hot Topics -- What's Behind Door Number 3?
- impact of DHS
- new security screening: will adjustment and consular processing slow
to a halt?
- predicting the unpredictable
For more info on this phone seminar series, including detailed curriculum,
speaker bios, and registration information, please see: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/may2003.shtm. For the fax version, please see: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/may2003.pdf.
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