Ask BIRT: AILA's Business Immigration Response Team Addresses Members' Most Pressing Questions (October 2019)

AILA's Business Immigration Response Team (BIRT) will hold a 90 minute teleconference featuring a panel of BIRT Committee members, emceed by BIRT Committee member Ian Wagreich. The BIRT panel will address AILA members' most pressing business immigration questions:

• The H-1B petition extension was approved, but for a validity period that has already ended. What are the options?
• Struggling with ever-higher numbers of RFE’s and denials of your business cases?
• Questioning how to pursue case resolution strategies in times of decreased communication with the Service Centers?
• You had an Embassy refusal under 214(b) or 221(g) for a Blanket L-1B or E-2. What next?
• Wondering how to advise clients with STEM OPT trainees/STEM OPT’s at third party locations?

Format

The BIRT Committee invites you to submit your question or hypothetical for review and discussion by the Ask BIRT panel. (No case-specific submissions / no identifying information about clients, please). If your question or hypothetical is selected for discussion on the upcoming program, you will be notified prior to the program.

How: Submit your question/hypothetical to: drish@aila.org, with subject line "ASK BIRT" and include the following:

• Attorney name
• AILA member #
• Attorney contact info (phone and email)

Question/hypothetical submission deadline: October 15, 2019

Submission of your question in advance is recommended. Participants may email questions to drish@aila.org during the first 60 minutes of the program and the Ask BIRT panel will address the questions as time permits.

Discussion Leaders:

• Ian Wagreich, Emcee
• Mike Nowlan
• Vic Goel
• Matt Hirsch
• Reginald Pacis