• H-1B Counting
• Customer Service, the 800 Number, and Other Resources for Solving Problems
• A Brief Primer on Quotas, Retrogression, and Adjustment of Status
• AOS Backlog Reduction and its Impact on Visa Availability
• AOS Referrals to the Local Offices
• The Direct Mail Program and Chicago Lockbox – Is it Working?
• Two-year EADs and APs
• Security Checks – Is it Really Cause for Delay?

Faculty:
Eleanor Pelta (d.l.), AILA Board of Governors, USCIS Liaison Committee Chair, Washington, DC; Judy J. Lee, USCIS Texas Service Center Liaison Committee Chair, Houston, TX; Robert Divine, Acting Deputy Director, USCIS, Washington, DC; Robert P. Wiemann, Director, AAO, USCIS, Washington, DC; Michael Aytes, Acting Director, Domestic Operations, USCIS, Washington, DC; Dea Carpenter, Acting Chief Counsel, USCIS, Washington, DC

CBP: GETTING THROUGH THE PORT OF ENTRY

• Correcting I-94 Errors
• USCIS Policies and Procedures Implemented at the Border
• Expedited Removal Procedures
• NAFTA Procedures
• Waivers of Inadmissibility
• NSEERS Compliance and Waivers

Faculty:
Diane M. Butler (d.l.), USCBP Liaison Committee Chair, Seattle, WA; Mark D. Koestler, USCBP Liaison Committee Member, New York, NY; John Klow, Acting Director, Policy & Planning, CBP, Washington, DC; *Theresa C. Brown, Office of Policy & Planning, CBP, Washington, DC

• How Far Can You Push the Envelope?
• When and How to Interrogate Your Client
• How Much Did You Know or Should Have Known?
• Can You Turn a Blind Eye?

Faculty:
Howard “Sam” Myers III (d.l.), AILA Past President, Ethics and Professionalism Committee Chair, Minneapolis, MN; Roxana C. Bacon, Ethics and Professionalism Committee Member, Phoenix, AZ; John Morton, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia,
Alexandria, VA

• BEC Update – How Long Will Pending Cases Really Take?
• PERM Usage Rates – Number of Users, Number of Pending Cases
• Adjudication Rates – Number of Approvals, Number of Denials, Number of Audits, Number of Audits Approved, Number of Audits Denied
• Adjudication Standards – the Perfect Approval Case; the Typical Audit Triggers, the Most Common Denial Grounds
• The 9089 -- Getting Clear on the Murky Questions

Faculty:
Frances C. Berger (d.l.), DOL Liaison Committee Chair, New York, NY; Linda Rose, PERM Implementation Working Group Member, Nashville, TN; John Beverly, Administrator, Office of National Programs and Interim Chief, DFLC, DOL Washington, DC; Gene Caso, Director, Atlanta Processing Center, Atlanta, GA; Charlene Giles, Director, Chicago Processing Center, Foreign Labor Certification and National Processing Center, Chicago, IL; William Rabung, Operations/Backlog Manager, DOL, Washington, DC; Melanie Shay, Team Leader, PERM, Foreign Labor Certification, Employment & Training Administration, DOL, Washington, DC

• Update on Security Checks
• How Security Checks Have Identified Security Risks
• Legalnet and Other Resources for Intervention at the Posts

Faculty:
Liam Schwartz (d.l.), DOS Liaison Committee Chair, Ramat Gan, Israel; Joel H. Paget, DOS Liaison Committee Member, Seattle, WA; Stephen A. Edson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, DOS, Washington, DC; Jeff Gorsky, Acting Chief, Office of Legislation, Regulations, and Advisory Assistance, DOS, Washington, DC

• “Catch and Release” -- A Thing of the Past?
• Update on Prosecutorial Discretion
• Remands for Adjustment of Status
• FOIA, Discovery and Getting a Copy of the File
• Adjustment of Status of Arriving Aliens

Faculty:
Amy L. Peck (d.l.), ICE Liaison Committee Chair, Omaha, NE; C. Lynn Calder, ICE Liaison Committee Member, Raleigh, NC; Daniel Brown, Deputy Associate General Counsel for Immigration, DHS, General Counsel’s Office, Washington, DC; William Howard, Principal Legal Advisor, ICE, Washington, DC

EOIR -- DEFENDING AGAINST DEPORTATION

• Trials in the Video World
• The Asylum “Clock”—Start, Stop, Never to Go Again
• Updates on Unified Docket System
• Remands for Adjustment of Status

Faculty:
Laura Lichter (d.l.), AILA Board of Governors, EOIR Liaison Committee Chair, Denver, CO;
Joseph A. Vail, EOIR Liaison Committee Member, Houston, TX; Juan P. Osuna, Vice Chairman, BIA, Falls Church, VA; Thomas L. Pullen, Deputy Chief Immigration Judge, Falls Church, VA; Scott Rosen, Sr. Counsel, General Counsel’s Office, EOIR, Falls Church, VA; Kevin Chapman, Deputy General Counsel, EOIR, Falls Church, VA