Registration Details
Event Date | Event Time | Registration Deadline | Registration |
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March 6 - 8, 2024 | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Registration Closed |
Unlock the complexities of managing lawful permanent residence based on employment. Clear institutional policies and procedures are essential for employment-based lawful permanent residence. The carefully curated content is geared to towards empowering participants to engage effectively with key campus stakeholders who play a crucial role in shaping institutional permanent residency sponsorship policies. During this engaging hands on workshop participants will examine faculty and non-faculty employment-based permanent residency cases to define issues, review required forms and processes, and develop strong institutional policies.
Workshop Objectives
- Describe the essential eligibility criteria, procedures, and regulatory underpinnings of lawful permanent residence for common employment-based categories.
- Recognize issues affecting the employment-based permanent residence process.
- Initiate or review institutional policies for permanent residence sponsorship.
Workshop Agenda
- Setting the Stage
- Introductions to EB Pathways to Permanent Residency
- EB-1 Pathways to Permanent Residency
- EB-1B Outstanding Professors and Researchers
- EB-1A Individuals of Extraordinary Ability
- EB-2 Pathways to Permanent Residency
- EB-3 Pathways to Permanent Residency
- Labor Certification for EB-2 and EB-3 Cases
- General Labor Certification Issues: Recruitment
- “Special Handling” Labor Certifications for College and University Teachers
- General Labor Certification Issues: Job Duties and Minimum Requirement
- General Labor Certification Issues: Beneficiary’s Qualifications
- General Labor Certification Issues: Prevailing Wage Determinations
- General Labor Certification Issues: Notice of Filing
- Online File of Forms ETA-9141 and ETA-9089
- The 1-140 Immigrant Petition
- The Final Stage: Adjustment of Status of Immigrant Visa
- Other Issues to Consider
- Maintaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status
Audience
Experienced international student and scholar advisers and program administrators whose responsibilities encompass employment-based permanent residency issues for their institution.
Build your Competencies
NAFSA International Education Professional Competencies 2.0 outline the abilities, skills, and foundational knowledge necessary for successful international educators. Learn more about NAFSA Competencies 2.0.
This learning content targets the competency categories of Compliance Management and Recruitment, Enrollment, and Advising.