Business Immigration

This course will provide an overview of business immigration law, with a particular focus on the various nonimmigrant and immigrant visa categories a business immigration lawyer would be expected to handle. Topics will include business immigration visa categories, business immigration strategies, visa challenges in entrepreneurship; immigration obstacles faced by multinational businesses; the intersection of business immigration with employment laws; and enforcement trends targeted at employers. We will also briefly review the parameters of executive power in shaping business immigration law and the regulatory process. We will also identify, examine and discuss core professional responsibility issues that arise in business immigration practice. There are no prerequisites for this course. There is no writing requirement, but there will be weekly reading assignments and frequent hypotheticals to analyze before class for class discussion as well as a final examination. Class attendance and participation are essential.