DOL Issues Another FAQ On H-1B and LCA Compliance During COVID-19. Here’s What It Says. As I was finishing up this article, President Trump fired off a tweet late night on 4/20/2020 stating that he was planning to sign an executive order temporarily
COVID-19 H-1B Compliance Update: DOL Finally Answers Electronic LCA Posting Questions During Pandemic On Friday, March 20, 2020, The US Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) finally put out guidance on how immigration practitioners and employers hiring foreign
[UPDATED 3/19] Coronavirus And H-1B Compliance - How Will You Post LCAs From Home? Electronic LCA Posting Is The Answer. [3/19 UPDATE]. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) released their own Practice Alert entitled, "Fulfilling U.S. Department of Labor Notice Requirements During COVID-19 Outbreak" in which they state
It’s 2020 - Still Skeptical About Electronic LCA Posting? Read This. Almost one year after the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a memo providing guidance on electronic Labor Condition Application (LCA) posting, there are still a lot of H-1B petitioners
Envoy Global 2019 Global Talent Symposium - The Future Of Global Mobility And Technology Envoy Global, which launched way back in 1998 (originally called VISANOW, they rebranded in 2016), is paving the way in our sector. I made a really tough choice when I
SHRM 2019 Global Mobility and Immigration Symposium - An Immigration Tech Perspective Even after the conclusion of the SHRM Global Mobility and Immigration Symposium on October 6th, I remained buzzing with excitement. I took literally thirteen pages of notes during the various
Worldwide ERC 2019 Global Workforce Symposium - An Immigration & Tech Perspective I was still actively practicing immigration law when I first heard about Worldwide ERC’s annual conference. Being too junior to attend myself, I would watch the more senior attorneys
What Senator Grassley's LCA Proposal Says About The Federal Government Early this year, a new bill was introduced to the Senate, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, or S.386. The most important thing to know is that
I Showed My Immigration Tech Startup To The US Government. Here’s How It Happened. From the very beginning of my immigration tech startup journey, I’ve been trying to get in touch with the federal government. Specifically the US Department of Labor (DOL). Not
The One Thing Most In-House Immigration Teams Desperately Need The 2019 AILA Annual Conference, which took place in Orlando, Florida this year, was a whirlwind of all things immigration. From informative panels on immigration law and policy to dozens
What I Learned About the Labor Condition Application at AILA AC 2019 Thousands of immigration lawyers and professionals come to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) annual conference each year. Some are new attorneys sent by their law firms to learn about
A Tech Perspective on the 2019 AILA Annual Conference Each year, for just a few days, one lucky city becomes the largest gathering of immigration lawyers in the world. This year, that city was Orlando, Florida, and the gathering
The Government Is Updating Their Immigration Technology. And No One’s Talking About It. Early this week I was having one of those exciting, inspiring conversations about immigration technology with a colleague from SHRM. We spoke about current events, recent VC funding rounds for
The End User Revolution in Immigration Law I came across a Harvard Business Review article the other day that struck me. It said, in a nutshell, that in order to successfully sell a truly innovative product, you
An Immigration Lawyer and a Software Engineer Walk into a Bar The title sounds like the beginning of a mediocre joke an old-timey lawyer might tell at a firm happy hour. But in fact, this is basically what happened for the
Law Firms That Automate Make More Money. Why Haven’t Immigration Lawyers Caught up? I was recently at an immigration law conference in Chicago. The conference was hosted by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, AILA for short and more commonly known as the “immigration
DOL Finally Addresses Electronic LCA Posting in Recent Memo, And It’s Music to my Ears. On Friday, March 15, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor published a memo about Labor Condition Application (LCA) posting. The memo isn’t very long, but for employers who
The Paradox of B2B SaaS Sales For ImmiTech (Or Any Other Startup Market) I was speaking with a sales manager at another immigration tech startup recently, sharing some of my sales theories and tactics. I went into detail around a simple yet paradoxical
Immigration Tech Is Booming, And I’m Betting My Career on Electronic LCA Posting In the past four years, there has been more growth, investment and exits in the immigration tech space than in the 20 before that. Yet there is very little coverage
Can the H-1B Pre-Registration System Impact the LCA? On December 3, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule that could change the way the H-1B cap lottery system will work. Check out
The Frustrating Reason H-1B Employers Resist Electronic LCA Posting and Public Access Files I knew selling immigration compliance software wouldn’t be easy. Even as an immigration lawyer with sales and tech experience I’d have to find my rhythm. I do my
Top Two Reasons Your LCA Compliance Process is Inefficient It’s 2018. We’ve got on-demand taxis, drone delivery services and even an “Iron Man” suit that lets you fly. And many of the companies that make these incredible
DOL Listens to Comments on Proposed LCA Changes Background on Most Recent Proposed LCA ChangesOn August 3, 2017, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued proposed changes to Form ETA 9035, also known as the Labor Condition Application
48% Of LCAs Submitted During H-1B Cap Season - Where’s The Automation? “Cap season,” the H-1B visa equivalent of “tax season,” is anything but fun for immigration attorneys and in-house immigration specialists across the U.S. We do all we can to
The 3 Biggest Electronic LCA Posting Mistakes Employers are Making [3/26/2020 UPDATE] If you are reading this because you want to adopt electronic LCA posting for your law firm or company, and get it done FAST, visit the