The Possibilities of the P Visa: Sports and Entertainment Immigration
| Live Event Date: 05/23/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
P visas are an essential part of an entertainment and sports immigration attorney’s toolkit. But each P visa category has its own special rules, adjudication trends, and documentation requirements. USCIS’ processing of these cases can vary significantly from employer to employer and field to field. Expert speakers for this intermediate seminar will provide an in-depth look at the P visa, including a discussion of petitioner selection and case documentation strategies, as well as tricky fact scenarios. They also will address common issues that surface and provide advice on preparing clients to overcome them.
Featured Topics:
- Who qualifies for each of the P visa categories?
- Petitioner options: team sports, individual athletes with no league petitioner, independent bands, and groups with U.S. citizen members
- Representing circus groups, including establishing an exemption to the one-year group membership and international recognition requirement for the P-1B visa
- Advising employers on maintaining group composition and longevity requirements
- Documenting filings for essential support personnel
AILA Membership Benefit – Access to Free Seminar Recordings (CLE Credit Available for $35)
Enjoy access to free seminar recordings (from October 2020–present) as an AILA Member. AILA encourages live attendance for those wishing to ask the speaker questions. CLE credit is included with purchase for live participants.
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 an administration fee is required to obtain CLE credit.
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Eligible participants can receive up to 1.8 CLE credit hours. AILA will administer CLE credit only to individuals who register and log into the web seminar. AILA cannot verify your attendance and participation in this program unless you register directly for the web seminar and use your name to log in to participate in the program. Therefore, persons who log in or listen in on the web seminar as part of a group will not be able to obtain CLE credit.
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Ksenia A. Maiorova (DL), Orlando, FL
Ksenia A. Maiorova is a partner at Green and Spiegel LLC where she leads the firm’s Individual Athletes and Olympic Sports practice group. She is the founder of the Sports Immigration Lawyers Association and the Sports Immigration Law Conference and the co-editor of and contributing author to the AILA treatise Immigration Options for Artists, Athletes, and Entertainers, 3rd ed.
Gerri Dolores Marshall, Las Vegas, NV
Gerri Dolores Marshall is principal of the Law Office of Gerri D. Marshall and has worked on 1000s of O and P Visa Petitions for musicians, music groups, singer- songwriters, composers, DJs, athletes, athletic coaches, models, actors, producers, directors, tv hosts, comedians, editors, writers, and business professionals from across the world. She has also successfully filed numerous EB-1A immigrant petitions, amongst other types of immigration applications, petitions, and waivers. And she regularly files/maintains trademarks.
Raymond McEntee, Chicago, IL
Raymond McEntee is a Partner at McEntee Law Group. He is a licensed U.S. attorney and a qualified solicitor in Ireland, England, and Wales. Ray leads McEntee Law’s Sports and Entertainment Department advising various professional sports leagues, clubs, players, coaches and other support staff on suitable visa and green card options. Ray also advises McEntee Law’s music and entertainment clients on suitable visa and green card options.
Meghan Moody, Memphis, TN
Meghan Moody is an attorney with Siskind Susser PC. She specializes in employment-based immigration, representing both corporate and individual clients in the healthcare, arts, sports, and entertainment industries. Meghan is an active member of AILA, the International Medical Graduate Taskforce, and the American Health Law Association. She earned her law degree from The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.