Electronic Filing for Employment-Based Cases: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love myUSCIS”
| Live Event Date: 10/08/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
USCIS has significantly expanded online filing with the addition of H-1B petitions this year. As a result, it is time for attorneys to plan for the transition to, and expansion of, online filings on behalf of clients. Experts on this intermediate session will offer attorneys strategies to adapt to the most significant change USCIS has made regarding how cases are filed since the agency was created.
Featured Topics:
- Electronic filing: current status and plans for the future
- What you can and can’t do on myUSCIS
- What online filing means for I-129s and I-140s
- Integrating online filing into current case management systems
- How online filing changes case preparation, file management, and client interactions
- Is there an obligation to use online filings to save clients money (and other online payment issues)?
- What attorneys should do to prepare themselves and their clients for this new reality
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Palma R. Yanni (DL), AILA Past President/EB-4 Task Force Co-Chair/USCIS High Impact Adjudications Assistance Committee, Washington, D.C.
Palma R. Yanni has been practicing immigration and nationality law in the District of Columbia for over thirty years. Ms. Yanni represents small and large businesses as well as individuals in employment and family-based immigration matters. She is well-known for her success with physician and researcher cases. She has twice testified in Congress regarding the negative effect of visa delays on small business. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, as well as Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Law. Ms. Yanni received the 2008 American Immigration Lawyers Association Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law.
Charlotte Andrews, Lincoln, NE
Charlotte serves as Senior Counsel at Brown Immigration Law. Charlotte’s extensive background in business immigration law spans nearly three decades of serving a vast range of clients, from innovative startups to established Fortune 100 companies, across all areas of employment-based sponsorship. She prides herself on providing the highest level of service, and relishes opportunities to come up with creative and effective solutions to vexing immigration problems.
Blanca Hernandez, AILA Policy and Practice Associate, Washington, D.C.
Blanca Hernandez is a Liaison Coordinator within the Government Relations Department at AILA. She staffs the USCIS Case Assistance Committee and the CBP OFO Committee. Blanca’s inquiry portfolio predominantly focuses on business immigration cases, although family and humanitarian inquiries are not uncommon.