Practical guidance for managing organizational or job‑related changes that may impact ongoing or approved PERM, I‑140, or I‑485 processes. When does a change require an amended filing? When can you avoid refiling? How should you advise clients who anticipate future restructuring?

Featured Topics

• What counts as a “material change” in the green card process: overview of changes that may require a new PERM, an amended or new I‑140
• Risk assessment: What happens if you don’t amend?
  • Explaining the consequences of ignoring material changes to corporate clients
• When the change(s) happened long ago: strategies for addressing changes that occurred weeks, months, or even years earlier
  • How to document the timeline, evaluate whether a new PERM is required, and mitigate risk in a late‑filed amendment or new I‑140
• Advising clients anticipating future organizational changes: how to counsel clients planning restructures, mergers, acquisitions, or job releveling

Faculty

*Cyrus D. Mehta (DL), New York, NY

Tiffany Martinez, San Francisco, CA

Parminder Sandhu, San Jose, CA

*Meredith K. Stewart, Boston, MA

CLE Credit

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Recordings will be available approximately two weeks after the live event date. AILA members can access these seminars, with no CLE credit, for free. Recordings are CLE eligible in most jurisdictions and a $35 administration fee is required to obtain CLE credit.

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