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| Monday June 4th - Advocacy Day and Essentials |
| 8:00 – 9:00: |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 1:30: |
Congressional Advocacy Day |
| 9:00 – 10:30: |
Immigration Essentials Overview |
| 10:50 – 12:30: |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Non-Immigrant Visas for Companies
- Non-Immigrant Visas for Non-Profits
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| 1:30 – 3:20: |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Employment-based Permanent Residence and PERM Labor Certification for Companies
- Concurrent Sessions: Employment-based Permanent Residence and PERM Labor Certification for Non-Profits
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| 3:45 – 5:00: |
Adjustment of Status + Consular Processing |
| 5:00 – 5:30: |
What I Wish I'd Known |
| 5:30 – 7:00: |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
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| Tuesday June 5th - Plenary Day |
| 8:00 – 9:00: |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 9:00: |
Newcomers Orientation |
| 9:00 – 9:15: |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 – 10:15: |
Legislative Panel |
| 10:30 – 11:30: |
Update from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
| 11:30-1:00: |
Lunch with Keynote Address |
| 1:00 – 2:00: |
Update from Department of State |
| 2:00 – 2:45: |
Update from Department of Labor |
| 3:00 – 4:00: |
Immigration Enforcement Panel |
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| Wednesday June 6th |
| 6:45 – 7:30: |
Fitness Walk to the 9/11 Memorial, led by ACIP's Executive Director |
| 8:30 – 9:30: |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30 – 11:00: |
Workshops
- Blanket L-1 and B-1 Visas - Update from Delhi
- Doing Business in Latin America - What You Need To Know
- Emerging Issues Related to International Medical Graduates (IMGs)
- Behind the Curtain; Where do OES "prevailing wages" come from?
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| 11:20 – 12:50: |
Workshops
- Contemplating Filing a PERM Application in the Current Economic Environment
- A "Bundle" of Current Immigration Issues Affecting the Consulting Industry and their Corporate Clients
- Doing Business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa- What You Need To Know
- Creating and Maintaining Paperless Compliance Programs for Companies
- How to Make J-1 Visas Work - Enforcement & Compliance Trends in J Visas
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| 2:20 – 3:50: |
Workshops
- Preparing for PERM Audits
- Doing Business in Asia-Pacific - What You Need To Know
- Worried about our self-IMAGE? Weighing the Pros and Cons of enrolling in IMAGE and E-Verify
- Plausible Deniability - What did you expect? I'm not a lawyer!
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| 4:10 – 5:30: |
Workshops
- Non-profit Sponsorship Policies
- Leveraging Technology for Global Immigration Compliance and Program Management
- Contemplating Filing a PERM Application in the Current Economic Environment
- Intracompany Job Change Analysis
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| 5:30 – 7:00: |
Networking Reception |
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| Thursday June 7th |
| 8:30 – 9:30: |
Breakfast with Keynote Address |
| 9:30 – 11:00: |
Workshops
- VENDI, VIDI, VISA! (I went to the Embassy, I saw the Consular Officer, I got my visa!)
- Optimizing Your investment of Int'l Assignments: An Organizational View
- "Specialized Knowledge": What is it and why is it so hard to get L-1B Visa petitions approved by USCIS and DOS in India?
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| 11:20 – 12:50: |
Workshops
- The Story of RED HOT Apparel and the ICE Agent - a Play in 4 Acts
- F and J Student Employment: How Schools and Employers Interpret These Benefits
- STEM Strategies: How to keep your best and brightest talent
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