Immigration in 2025: Navigating New Frontiers
FREE VIRTUAL EVENT
Monday, March 3, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | via Zoom
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Join us for an informative presentation designed to equip employers with strategies for effectively managing the current immigration landscape. This presentation will explore the future dimensions of immigration, highlighting critical implications for employers, anticipated shifts in worksite enforcement actions, and the importance of robust compliance programs and risk management strategies. Further, we will provide a general overview of the most common visa categories.
This program has been submitted for HRCI and SHRM credits.
OUR SPEAKERS:
Matthew S. Groban
Shareholder | Morristown
Ogletree Deakins
Matthew serves as global immigration counsel to multinational corporations as well as small and medium-sized businesses across a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, engineering, finance, e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing, chemical, advertising, pharmaceutical, consulting, and healthcare. He assists employers with developing global migration programs, including the policies, procedures, and protocols essential for their success. For organizations interested in tapping global talent efficiently and cost-effectively, he helps assess their most favorable U.S. immigration options. He then develops and implements the processes and protocols necessary to secure the employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas the employees need to work and remain in the United States. As immigration laws and policies evolve, Matt explains how these changes impact his clients and proposes solutions that enable them to obtain a competitive advantage. read more
Katherine C. MacIlwaine
Shareholder | New York
Ogletree Deakins
Katherine's practice focuses on the intricacies of U.S. business immigration law. Katherine works closely with companies to manage their U.S. immigration programs and to support foreign national employees through all parts of the U.S. immigration lifecycle. Her clients range from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, technology, life sciences, sports, entertainment, media, and fashion. Katherine serves as the immigration liaison to Ogletree's financial services practice group. Katherine has extensive experience with numerous types of temporary work visas including H-1Bs. L-1s, O-1s, TNs, E-1/E2s, and E-3s. She also oversees all stages of the permanent residency process for beneficiaries of petitions based on the PERM labor market test and for EB-1 individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers, and multinational managers and executives. In addition, Katherine regularly advises on business travel and options available for students and trainees.
Katherine regularly provides on-site trainings and presentations as well as internal publications to in-house counsel, HR professionals, recruiters, and foreign national employees to guide them through the immigration process and keep them informed on updates to the law. She supports I-9 and export control compliance. read more
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