Advanced Blanket L Strategies: Knitting Together the Strands
| Live Event Date: 02/15/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
In this advanced seminar, the panelists go beyond the basics on initial corporate Blanket L petitions and renewals. They will provide tips for presenting clear and compelling corporate Blanket L petitions that explain complex structures, opaque financial statements, and other entity issues in ways that can easily be interpreted by USCIS.
Featured Topics:
- Establishing ownership: complex corporate structures, foreign documents, share certificates, and more
- Practical tips for assembling the entity list: knowing what to include, rules for California vs. Vermont filings, and setting your margins
- Renewing/amending the Blanket L: timing for the required renewal and subsequent amendments, and how these filings differ from the initial application
- Benefits of the Blanket L in lieu of individual Ls (Requests for Evidence, approval rates, processing times, cost, etc.)
AILA Membership Benefit – Access to Free Seminar Recordings (CLE Credit Available for $35)
Enjoy access to free seminar recordings (from October 2020–present) as an AILA Member. AILA encourages live attendance for those wishing to ask the speaker questions. CLE credit is included with purchase for live participants.
Recordings will be available approximately two weeks after the live event date. AILA members can access these seminars, with no CLE credit, for free. Recordings are CLE eligible in most jurisdictions and an administration fee is required to obtain CLE credit.
Contact us at cle@aila.org or visit AILA’s Web Seminar Recordings page for more information about receiving CLE credit for a web seminar recording.
Eligible participants can receive up to 1.8 CLE credit hours. AILA will administer CLE credit only to individuals who register and log into the web seminar. AILA cannot verify your attendance and participation in this program unless you register directly for the web seminar and use your name to log in to participate in the program. Therefore, persons who log in or listen in on the web seminar as part of a group will not be able to obtain CLE credit.
Please note that your jurisdiction may limit the amount of distance learning credit you can earn. To view details on your jurisdiction's credit restrictions and CLE requirements, visit the CLE Center.
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- The OnDemand Recording format does not qualify for CLE credit in the following jurisdictions: MO and PR. Please note that your jurisdiction may limit OnDemand credit based on the date of the original presentation. View the OnDemand Downloadable Expiration Chart for more details.
To receive CLE credit for the live event, attorneys must record web seminar attendance and the CLE code provided within one week of the web seminar date via webCLE.
Contact us at cle@aila.org or visit AILA’s Web Seminar Recordings page for more information about receiving CLE credit for a seminar recording.
Lieselot Whitbeck (DL), AILA Distance Learning Committee Co-Chair, Stuart, FL
Lieselot Whitbeck is a US and global business immigration attorney with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, based in Washington DC. She is a member of the Global Migration Section and is Co-Chair of the AILA Distance Learning Committee. She started her career as a USCIS officer at the Boston Field Office.
Larry L. Drumm, San Francisco, CA
Larry Drumm handles a variety of business immigration matters, including employment visas for professionals, intracompany transferees, investors, and trainees. Mr. Drumm has an extensive background with respect to all aspects of business immigration law, regulation, and policy. He has federal agency experience, including numerous petitions before the Department of Homeland Security, visa processing with the Department of State, and employer compliance investigations by the Department of Labor (DOL) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Nisha V. Fontaine, Buffalo, NY
Nisha V. Fontaine (nee Jagtiani) is a Partner in the Immigration Group with Lippes Mathias LLP in Buffalo, NY. Licensed in Texas, Mrs. Fontaine received her JD from St. Mary’s University School of Law (2007) and her MBA from St. Mary’s University (2007). She works with individuals, small businesses, and large corporations to strategically navigate the U.S. immigration system She focuses her practice on employment-based immigration, family-based immigration, and a northern cross-border practice.
Michael P. Nowlan, Detroit, MI
Mike P. Nowlan is a member of the Clark Hill PLC Immigration Business Unit, located in the Detroit, MI office. His is currently a member of the AILA Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee. He has previously served as the Chair of the Business Committee Listserv, Vice Chair of the AILA Business Immigration Response Team, and Chair of the AILA Business Committee.