Nonimmigrant Visas

• Nonimmigrant Intent: What it is and How to Show it
• Education Visas: Student Visa Issues
• Tourists and Business Visitors
• Working Visas -- H and L
• Other Visa Options -- TN, E, O, P
• H and L visas in Congress and in the Media

Faculty: Susan MacLean (d.l.), Chicago, Il; Allen Orr, Washington, DC; Karen Koenig, Atlanta, GA

CASSETTE #3   or   CD #3

Keynote Luncheon
 

Mary Bauer, Southern Poverty Law Center, AL

Employment-Based Immigrant Visas
 

• Labor Certifications: Reduction in Recruitment (RIR), Traditional & PERM, Schedule A
• Immigrant Petitions: Advanced Degree Workers, Professionals, Skilled Workers, “Other” Workers, Religious Workers
• Alternatives to Labor Certification: Multinational Managers & Executives, “Outstanding Researchers,” Individuals With “Extraordinary” and “Exceptional” Ability; National Interest Waivers
• Maintaining NIV Status While Waiting for Adjustment of Status
• Changing Standards and Trends at the CSC

• Overview of Family-Based Preferences: Who Has to Wait and Why
• K and V Visas – “Pre-Immigrant”
• Affidavits of Support
• Financially Approvable: I-864 and Public Charge Issues
• Bases of Petitions: Marriage and Divorce, Conditional Status
• Self-Petitioning Under VAWA
• Visas for Children, Step Children, and Adopted Children
• Child Status Protection Act (CSPA)
• Legislative Reform Options for Family Backlogs

Faculty: Carolina Colin-Antonini, Atlanta, GA (d.l.); Maureen O’Sullivan, Boston, MA; Charina Palomares Garcia, San Francisco, CA

• Adjustment of Status vs. Consular Processing: Who Can Adjust, Who Must

• Adjust, Who Can’t Adjust -- Eligibility Issues

• Three & Ten Year Bars

• Concurrent Filings

• Travel While Adjustment is Pending: Advance Parole, Reentry

• Grounds of Inadmissibility
    -- Health
    -- Security
    -- Immigration Status Violations
    -- Criminal
• Fraud and Misrepresentation
• Waivers
• Other Forms of Relief
    -- CAT
    -- Asylum
    -- Battered Women -- VAWA