Comment: 2021 PERM Update

Speakers: Joel Stewart (Discussion Leader), Rami Fakhoury, Matthew Morse, Harry Sheinfeld and many more to be announced

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: 11:59PM (ET), December 18, 2020

Each call features an hour of analysis, strategy and practice tips, followed by questions and answers from participants.

FIRST Zoom Session on January 22:

Prevailing Wage Update

• Acronyms Decoded: DOL, ETA, OFLC, BLS, OES, SOC, O*NET, OES, OWL, & NPWHC
• Forms Analysis: Temporary and Permanent Labor Certification
• Practice Tips, Methodology, Challenges
• View from Silicon Valley

SECOND Zoom Session on February 12:

New PERM Form 9089

• Point by Point Analysis of 9089
• Managing Data Merge: Forms 9141 & 9089
• Important Tips for Best SOC Determinations
• High Tech Occupation Update

THIRD Zoom Session on March 5:

Audits, Reconsideration, and BALCA Review

• Paperless PERM & Electronic Filings
• Analysis & Preparation of Audits
• Crafting Requests for Reconsideration
• Important New BALCA Rulings

SPEAKER BIOS

Joel Stewart (Discussion Leader) practices exclusively in the area of immigration law. He specialized in Romance and Slavic Linguistics before receiving a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Russian. He is Past President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is a nationally recognized authority on employment-based immigration matters as well as a popular speaker at for national and local bar associations throughout the United States. Mr. Stewart is the editor of The Perm Book, the definitive authority on the subject of PERM processing of labor certifications, and has been writing the BALCA Case Summaries since 1987. Mr. Stewart is also General Counsel to the Brazilian Consulate in Miami and Honorary Consul of Brazil in Florida.

Rami Fakhoury is the founder and Managing Director of Fakhoury Global Immigration, USA PC (FGI), one of the largest independently owned business-based immigration law firms in the United States and a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rated firm. FGI embodies Rami's life-long belief in the vital contributions that immigrants make to America's economy and society, advances his goal of helping businesses and organizations to meet their talent mobility needs, and assists talented and ambitious individuals in realizing their career aspirations. Rami's publications comprise several immigration law books including, as editor, The Consular Posts Book, 2015-2016 ed. (ILW.com: 2016) and USCIS Immigration Procedures and US State Department Consular Processes (ILW.com: 2009); and, as author, The Immigration Practitioner's Guide to U.S. Export Control Regulations (ILW.com: 2011) and The PERM Book, 3rd ed. (ILW.com, 2018). He has also written a regular column on global IT and US immigration law for the Financial Times of India, authored numerous policy articles and white papers, contributed articles to Lexology, Mondaq, and Crain's Detroit Business, among others, and is a frequent presenter at immigration and trade group conferences. Rami has organized informational sessions and webinars for businesses, universities, and other stakeholders worldwide, and has presented to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on several occasions.

Matthew Morse Matt Morse has been practicing employment-based immigration law for over 20 years. He has experience with many areas of Green Card processing, including PERM labor applications, immigrant visa petitions, and Adjustment of Status applications. He has experience with Naturalization issues, and family-based immigration matters, and has extensive experience with many nonimmigrant visa categories, including the B, E, F, H, K, L, O, R, and TN categories, as well as consular processing matters. He has strong knowledge of federal immigration statutes and regulations. As a Partner at Fakhoury Global Immigration, Matt's experience includes Extraordinary Ability Alien cases, National Interest Waiver cases, Outstanding Professor/Researcher cases, Multi-National Manager and Executive cases, as well as health care worker immigration cases. Matt earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his J.D. from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Michigan Bar Association.

Harry Sheinfeld is a PERM Consultant and a Former DOL Solicitor with years of deep experience on PERM adjudications.

More speakers to be added

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