The Australian government is expanding pathways to permanent residency through a new visa program for highly skilled foreign workers. Hit play to get details on changes in the occupation lists, how it impacts visa eligibility, and the new role for labor market testing. Erickson Immigration Group senior manager for Australia, Martin Russell, joins host Lauren Clarke from Melbourne.

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GUEST: Martin Russell, EIG Senior Manager, Australia

NEWS NERD: Rob Taylor

HOST: Lauren Clarke

PRODUCER: Adam Belmar

What does it mean to be a digital nomad in the year 2023? Is taking your job with you as you travel the world more than just a trend? Veteran digital nomad Josh Andrews joins the podcast from Medellin, Colombia, to help define terms and share perspectives on the lifestyle and its promise. Hit play to hear if digital nomading is right for you and what types of jobs travel best.

GUEST: Josh Andrews, Digital Nomad & Director of People & Culture at Remote Year

NEWS NERD: Rob Taylor

HOST: Lauren Clarke

PRODUCER: Adam Belmar

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May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institute, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success.

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In this latest episode of the Immigration Nerds podcast, we nerd out on the immigration policies of Canada, a nation whose population grew by over one million people for the first time ever last year and is expecting to welcome another 1.5 million permanent residents by the end of 2025. So who better to discuss Canadian immigration with than a Canadian immigrant? Our host Lauren Clare is joined by Ruairi Spillane, founder, and CEO of Moving2Canada and Outpost Recruitment.

In this week's episode of the Immigration Nerds podcast, we invite you to hit play for all the facts surrounding the hottest topics for H-1B visa holders right now: cap selection, grace periods, and domestic visa renewals.

Host and EIG Senior Attorney Lauren Clarke is joined for a far-reaching discussion by Shev Dalal-Dheini, Director of Government Relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

In this week's Immigration Nerds podcast episode, host Lauren Clarke speaks with Alejandra Oliva, author of the new book, Rivermouth — A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces that make up different phases of immigration and looks at how language and opportunity move through each of them; from the river as the waterway that separates the US and Mexico to the table as the place over which Oliva prepares asylum seekers for their Credible Fear Interviews, and finally, to the wall as the behemoth imposition that runs along America’s southernmost border.

This week, the Immigration Nerds features a conversation between Lauren Clarke, senior attorney at Erickson Immigration Group, and EIG Senior Manager Martin Russell in Australia and Immigration Manager, Erdiana Kamarudin, in Singapore. The team explores how new workforce planning and hiring policies in the APAC region are creating opportunities for highly skilled migrants.

Immigration Nerds host Lauren Clarke, a senior attorney at Erickson Immigration Group, helps us understand the facts and context of the soon-expiring Title 42 policy created decades ago to address public health and social welfare but most recently used during the pandemic to regulate the border. Our guest, David J. Bier, Associate Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, joins us to talk about the border policies in place before Title 42, the programs that have been introduced since, and what we can expect still.

The podcast from the smartest nerds in the know on immigration is back! The Immigration Nerds Podcast has relaunched with show host Lauren Clarke—a senior attorney at Erickson Immigration Group, an immigrant, and the kind of nerd who makes the details easier to understand. Are you interested in the American response to the refugee crisis in Ukraine? Hear what’s working and what’s not in the U.S. State Department program designed to welcome Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, Uniting for Ukraine. Lauren’s guest is George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Law Professor Ilya Somin, a sponsor to a Ukrainian refugee family.

This week's Immigration Nerds episode is a special one as we celebrate the growth of our podcast to become a must-listen in our industry and a top-rated immigration podcast.

But how did we get here? In early 2018, Hiba Anver, now an EIG partner, and host/producer Ian Gaines, then an immigration paralegal, imagined a podcast that would shine a spotlight on all types of immigration and give a microphone to diverse storytellers. This week, Hiba and Ian reflect on the making of the podcast and the past four years of guests, issues, and the impact of this flagship podcast from Erickson Immigration Group.

And, a note from our producer, Ian Gaines: "This is a journey that I’m personally proud to have embarked upon and watched grow. After this episode, I will pass the microphone of this podcast, that you have all come to enjoy and gain insight from over the years. Thank you all for your support over these past years; I am truly grateful."

As the summer approaches many countries across the board are opening up to accommodate the expected influx of tourism as the weather gets warmer. And with that in mind, Bloomberg created a ranking system called the covid resilience index to help guide you along the way. The system aggregates each country’s lockdown severity, vaccinated travel routes, flight capacity, vaccine doses per 100 people, reopening progress, and quality life index (which takes in universal health care coverage and human development ratings). This episode will cover the top 10 countries which we hope can be a cheat sheet of what is required when entering a foreign country, as you decide your summer plans with the family.