PERM Alternatives Part II: Schedule A, Underutilized Nevermore
| Live Event Date: 09/24/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
This intermediate panel on PERM alternatives (in contrast to Part I on National Interest Waivers, considers Schedule A for certain employment-based preference cases. Schedule A is a list of pre-certified occupations with known U.S. labor shortages. In December 2023, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to update Schedule A with additional science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and non-STEM occupations. There is hope in the immigration law community that more occupations will be included on Schedule A in the future, increasing its effectiveness in the immigration practitioner’s toolbox. Learn how to use Schedule A to submit an uncertified PERM application directly to USCIS with the I-140, potentially saving attorneys and clients time and money.
Featured Topics:
- Using the provisions of 20 CFR §§656.5 and 656.15
- Group 1: Physical therapists and professional nurses (and potential future occupations)
- Group 2: “Aliens … of exceptional ability in the sciences or arts”
- DOL’s broad authority to address labor shortages through immigration pathways—e.g., Schedule A—while protecting U.S. workers
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Maria Schneider (DL), Cincinnati, OH
Maria Schneider has been an attorney with Musillo Unkenholt since 2011. Maria’s practice includes both business-based and family-based immigration matters. Maria volunteers and works on immigration-related causes, serving on the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Immigration Practice Group and teaching Employment-Based Immigration Law as an adjunct at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Prior to joining MU, Maria was an International Services Advisor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advised students, scholars and faculty coming from abroad to study and work at UC. Maria graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2009.
Elissa Taub, AILA DOS Liaison Committee, Memphis, TN
Elissa Taub is an attorney in the Memphis office of Siskind Susser PC, where she practices primarily in the areas of physician and nurse immigration. Elissa also handles cases for individuals in the sports, entertainment and fashion industries. She has extensive experience with J-1 waivers, H-1Bs, O-1s, EB-1 extraordinary ability petitions, National Interest Waivers and labor certification based green cards, as well as a variety of other business and family immigration processes. Elissa earned her JD from Villanova University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif.
Olsi Vrapi, Albuquerque, NM
Olsi Vrapi is the managing partner at the Albuquerque office of Vrapi Weeks. He specializes in various immigration matters including visas, green cards, and citizenship. He also litigates delays and improper decisions in federal court. Mr. Vrapi is an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Mr. Vrapi graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico with a degree in Political Science and Spanish in 2003. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law in December 2006. Mr. Vrapi is the recipient of national awards and the past chair of the TX, NM, and OK Chapter of AILA. He is a highly sought-after speaker at conferences and other immigration law events.