American Council on International Personnel: ACIP's 40th Anniversary Celebration

Agenda


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
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
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

Tuesday June 5th - Plenary Day
8:00 – 9:00:	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00:	Newcomers Orientation
9:00 – 10:15:	Welcome & Keynote Speaker
10:15 – 10:30:	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30:	New World, New Policies
11:30 – 12:15:	Update from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
12:15 – 1:45:	Luncheon Panel: From the Inside Out
2:00 – 2:45:	Update from Department of State
2:45 – 3:30:	Update from Department of Labor
3:30 – 3:45:	Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:30:	Immigration Enforcement Panel
7:00 – 10:00	Symposium Gala Cruise

Wednesday June 6th
8:30 – 9:15:	Workshops ACIP Symposium Breakfast Panel: New Technologies at Our Borders
9:30 – 11:00:	Workshops Blanket L-1, B-1 and H-1B Visa Applications - Update from the US Embassy and Consulates in India 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?
11:20 – 12:50:	Workshops A "Bundle" of Current Immigration Issues Affecting the Consulting Industry and their Corporate Clients Creating and Maintaining Paperless Compliance Programs for Companies Doing Business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa- What You Need To Know The J-1 Visa - Recent Events and Key Program Trends
2:20 – 3:50:	Workshops Worried about our self-IMAGE? Weighing the Pros and Cons of enrolling in IMAGE and E-Verify Preparing for PERM Audits Doing Business in Asia-Pacific - What You Need To Know Plausible Deniability - What did you expect? I'm not a lawyer!
4:10 – 5:30:	Workshops Non-profit Sponsorship Policies Intracompany Job Change Analysis Leveraging Technology for Global Immigration Compliance and Program Management Supervised Recruitment
5:30 – 7:00:	Networking Reception

Thursday June 7th
8:30 – 9:30:	Breakfast with Keynote Address: USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas
9:30 – 11:00:	Workshops VENDI, VIDI, VISA! (I went to the Embassy, I saw the Consular Officer, I got my visa!) "Specialized Knowledge": What is it and why is it so hard to get L-1B Visa petitions approved by USCIS and DOS in India? Optimizing Your investment of Int'l Assignments: An Organizational View
11:20 – 12:50:	Workshops The Story of RED HOT Apparel and the ICE Agent - a Play in 4 Acts Strategies to Keep Your Best and Brightest Students Congratulations, you’ve got the job, sorry your spouse can’t work there