Immigration Update with Lin Walker

This week, a bit of breaking news and unfortunately, it’s not good news.

The Biden Administration recently supported and defended the legality of a Trump-era rule of wage-based H-1B cap selections.

This is very frustrating, disappointing and disheartening for immigration professionals, employers and foreign nationals.

We had hoped the President would help to overturn rules like this wage-based selection, which in our opinion we feel is damaging to the US economy…and we’ll explain why.

This week the writer of these podcasts, Immigration partner Lin Walker, stops by to talk about a best practice in using USCIS’ COVID-19 flexibility policy and a simple, but effective method the Meyner & Landis has developed for responding to RFEs that you have to hear!

On June 16, 2021, a U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge ordered a U.S. Company to pay a former employee more than $400,000 in back wages and benefits, for multiple violations of the E-3 visa program as established by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

In this podcast we tell you how that happened, explain briefly what the E-3 visa program is and explain what you as an employer can do to prevent falling into a similar situation when you hire foreign nationals who need LCAs….this includes not just the E3 but the H1B and the H1B1 visas.

The dreaded RFE…if you have received that package of blue or yellow paper, sometimes over 12 pages long, you understand the significant anxiety, frustration and sometimes, fear that it causes.

This week we have the author of these podcasts, immigration Partner Lin Walker sitting in to share some very positive news regarding several challenging L-1A Requests for Evidence (RFEs) that Meyner & Landis recently received and were able to successfully resolve using a resurrected policy.

In this episode we explain about two complimentary documents that you must be aware of if you are a foreign national who has been admitted to the United States.

While both of these documents are critically important and often contain similar information, they can be confusing and sometimes a very simple mistake can cause you to unknowingly overstay your period of authorization and jeopardize your nonimmigrant status.

Written by Meyner & Landis immigration partner Lin Walker

While it’s true that we can very much learn from our mistakes, and should, in this podcast we are going to give you the benefit of what we learned from two recent successes

We are going to talk about two extensive L-1A RFEs, that we were able to get approved.

Through the process of responding to these RFEs, we learned some key points which we believe resulted in these specific cases being approved but which can be applied to many similar cases.

Something wonderful happened on June 9th, which was the first day of the 2021 AILA Annual Conference, and it created a sense of immense optimism amongst immigration practitioners, who, along with their clients, have suffered these past four years.

The news that we received this week from USCIS and AC21 was a much needed and welcome change from the past four years, and gives us tremendous hope that the Biden Administration will reform our U.S. immigration system to one that is fair and compassionate.

This week we explore a rather puzzling development in the battle against COVID-19. There are some policies being put into place, supposedly in an effort to keep people safe, that simply make no sense.

We are really happy to be bringing some incredibly positive news to share with our listeners,

On May 10, 2021, USCIS announced that it would continue granting benefits under the International Entrepreneur (IE) parole program,

With this podcast, we want to provide some guidance on the IE Parole Program, who is eligible to benefit from the program and how to file an application with USCIS.

This week, Lin Walker, the writer of these podcasts, sits in to tell us about an approach to creatively titling the job description of some high level executives in order to better define their contribution to their professions.