Navigating TNs: Unlocking the Pathway to Cross-Border Professional Success
| Live Event Date: 12/05/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
In today's dynamic immigration landscape, mastering the complexities of TN classification is essential for practitioners. Speakers for this intermediate seminar will offer a deep dive into regulatory standards, address profession-specific challenges, provide expert tips for seamless port of entry (POE) experiences, compare Canadian and Mexican TN intricacies, and emphasize TN classification as a strategic solution for corporate clients seeking alternatives to the H-1B visa.
Featured Topics:
- Canadian vs. Mexican TNs: exploring procedural variations and strategic considerations
- Challenges with specific occupations: addressing hurdles encountered by professionals in fields such as management consulting or occupations requiring licensure
- Complications for specific roles: limitations on TNs for senior and managerial positions
- Optimizing POE experiences: strategies for navigating various POEs to enhance TN application success
- Evaluating TNs as a viable alternative to H-1Bs amidst the evolving landscape of immigration policies and procedures
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.
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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.
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Fausta M. Albi (DL), San Diego, CA
David J. Wilks, AILA Board of Governors/USCIS HQ (Benefits Policy) Liaison Committee, Rochester, NY
David J. Wilks co-leads the Immigration Practice Group at Hodgson Russ LLP in Rochester, New York. He represents a wide variety of business immigration clients. Mr. Wilks currently serves as an Elected Director on the national Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA). His articles have appeared in Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, ILW.com, National Law Review, and in various AILA publications, including: Immigration Options for Investors and Entrepreneurs, 4th Ed. Mr. Wilks is also the 2019 recipient AILA’s national Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award, and the AILA Upstate New York Chapter’s 2018 Mark T. Kenmore Mentor of the Year Award. Mr. Wilks is a Graduate of Cornell Law School.
Ruth L. McChesney, San Antonio, TX
Devin B. O’Neill, Toronto, Canada
Devin B. O’Neill is a Director and Senior Attorney at EY Law, LLP based in Toronto Canada where she supports and advises a range of large corporations build their US immigration program, manage risk, and respond to changing US immigration landscape. Ms. O’Neill has practiced immigration law since 2003 alternating her practice between refugee and asylum law (serving as the Mixed Migration Expert for UNHCR Office for Southern Africa), and business immigration. Devin has served for several years both as AILA Canada Chapter Liaison to Pearson Pre Clearance Office as well as on the AILA National CBP Liaison Committee. Ms. O’Neill holds a JD and an MPH from the University of Michigan Schools of Law and School of Public Health and a BA in Government from Smith College.