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SHRM 2017 Annual Conference & Exposition
You will learn how to navigate issues affecting your sponsorship of foreign national employees for work visas and green cards.
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What do you need to know before you make the offer to a foreign national recruit? What key questions do you need to ask the employee and your immigration counsel? This session will help you:

  • Gain a high-level understanding of the rules and regulations pertaining to employment-based visas and green cards and the role that visa sponsorship plays in attracting talent. 
  • Learn how to quickly identify whether a potential employee is a good candidate for visa sponsorship so that you can avoid common pitfalls and costly mistakes in the process.. 
  • Review the employment-based green card sponsorship process step by step, and understand its role as a retention tool. 
  • Learn practical strategies for filing successful immigration petitions in order to achieve optimal results.
 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Presenter: 
Gali Schaham Gordon
attorney
Law Office of Gali Schaham Gordon
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Gali Gordon manages Gordon Law Group PC, a boutique immigration law firm in San Francisco. She speaks on immigration issues both nationally and locally, and has served as an expert witness on immigration matters. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Gali was named a ‘Rising Star’ by Super Lawyers magazine, an honor awarded to the top 2.5 percent of immigration lawyers in Northern California under age 40. Gali graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley and received her law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She spent the first several years of her career at the law firms of Morrison and Foerster LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, where she represented venture-financed start-up companies, venture capital funds, and Fortune 500 companies, as well as refugees and asylees pro bono. Gali has lived and traveled abroad extensively, and enjoys working with people of different cultures.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
255-257
Amount of Credit: 
1.25
Credit Type: 
•SHRM PDCs
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Critical Evaluation
Global & Cultural Effectiveness
Intended Audience: 
Mid-Level
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Employment Law & Regulations

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