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:

1. 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

2. 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:

1. Concurrent Processing -- is it always the best alternative?
   • advantages and disadvantages
   • strategy decisions

2. 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

3. 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:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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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