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
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