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Travel During COVID-19: Immigration Updates and Options

 

Do you have questions regarding travel during COVID-19? Are you unsure of your immigration options as a result of being stuck outside the US during COVID? This webinar, held on June 30, 2021, discussed immigration issues resulting from restricted travel during COVID-19 and discussed immigration options and updates. Miller Mayer attorneys Sandra Bruno and Nicolai Hinrichsen discussed the immigration effects of COVID-19 and the updates and options available to those seeking to maintain or gain a valid immigration status in the wake of COVID.

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Speaker Bios

Sandra Bruno is a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group. Ms. Bruno practices immigration law, with a focus on employment-based immigration. She assists employers in obtaining non-immigrant and immigrant status for their employees. She has extensive experience working with post-doctoral researchers, professors, engineers, scientists, scholars, and individuals of extraordinary ability. Ms. Bruno also represents individuals on a variety of family-based immigration and naturalization matters.  She is fluent in Spanish.

Nicolai Hinrichsen is a Partner at Miller Mayer. Mr. Hinrichsen has over a decade of experience in immigration law, with a focus in EB-5 immigration.  He represents regional centers and developers in structuring EB-5 compliant projects either through initial regional center designation applications or by partnering with existing regional centers.  He also represents individual investors obtaining permanent resident status through either regional center or direct EB-5 investments.  Mr. Hinrichsen regularly speaks at EB-5 events throughout Asia.

Alternatives to H-1B in 2021

 

Unable to secure a winning number in this year’s cap H-1B lottery? This webinar, held on April 29, 2021, helped both employers and potential employees explore alternatives to the H-1B visa that provide work authorization in the United States. Miller Mayer attorney Kristal Ozmun explained these alternative visa options, including requirements, process, and best fit for employment in the U.S.

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Speaker Bios

Kristal Ozmun is a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group. Ms. Ozmun focuses her practice on employment-based immigration with a unique specialization in the EB-5 preference category. She also advises represents a variety of individual and corporate clients seeking non-immigrant and immigrant status.

Possible Immigration Changes In a Biden Administration

 

With the new Biden Administration having taken office on January 20, 2021, many changes to federal immigration policy are potentially on the horizon. Miller Mayer attorneys Kristal Ozmun and Stephen Yale-Loehr discussed the possible immigration changes that the Biden Administration may implement in the coming months. This free webinar, recorded on Tuesday January 26 at 2:00 pm EST, explores the possible immigration changes ahead.

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Speaker Bios

Kristal Ozmun is a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group. Ms. Ozmun focuses her practice on employment-based immigration with a unique specialization in the EB-5 preference category. She also advises represents a variety of individual and corporate clients seeking non-immigrant and immigrant status.

Steve Yale-Loehr is an Attorney of Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group who brings 30 years of immigration law experience to bear in advising corporate and individual clients on a broad array of family and employment immigration matters. In addition to his work at Miller Mayer, Mr. Yale-Loehr teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School as a Professor of Immigration Practice.

Finding Your Path: How to Secure a US Green Card

 

Presented by attorneys Sandra Bruno and Xiayue (Summer) Yin, the webinar will provide an overview of options to obtain permanent residence in the United States. They will discuss various family and employment based options, recent adjudication trends and changes in immigration law.

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Speaker Bios

Sandra Bruno is a Senior Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group. Ms. Bruno practices immigration law, with a focus on employment-based immigration exclusively . She assists employers in obtaining non-immigrant and immigrant status for their employees. She has extensive experience working with post-doctoral researchers, professors, engineers, scientists, scholars, and individuals of extraordinary ability. Ms. Bruno also represents individuals on a variety of family-based immigration and naturalization matters. Prior to joining Miller Mayer, Ms. Bruno worked as an associate attorney at an immigration firm in the Chicago area. She is fluent in Spanish.

Xiayue (Summer) Yin is an Associate in Miller Mayer’s Immigration Practice Group. Ms. Yin represents clients in a wide array of immigrant and non-immigrant visa categories including employment-based and family-based green card petitions, non-immigrant visa classifications such as H1B, L-1, E-2 and etc.

In the realm of employment-based immigration, Ms. Yin has advised numerous foreign investors and entrepreneurs on complicated EB-5 source of funds and business documentation. She assists individuals with extraordinary abilities in obtaining U.S. permanent residence through the EB-1 category.  Ms. Yin also has profound experience in advising green card holders of properly maintaining U.S. permanent resident status when they need to temporarily relocate overseas.

Ms. Yin is a graduate of Cornell Law School. She’s licensed in New York State and P.R. China. Before joining Miller Mayer, Ms. Yin practiced corporate law in a renowned law firm in Shanghai, China. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Navigating the New EB-5 Regulations

 

On July 24, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published new, final regulations that will significantly alter the Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5 Program). The new regulations vastly increase the minimum investment amount to $900,000, change how targeted employment areas are defined and designated, and allow for priority date retention, among other major changes that will impact immigrant investors, regional centers, and U.S. workers.

Please join us as Miller Mayer, LLP offers a free webinar exploring the new regulations. Well-known EB-5 attorneys Stephen Yale-Loehr and Kristal Ozmun will discuss the changes to the EB-5 Program in detail including what it means for current and future investors, and the future of the program.

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Speaker Bios

Kristal Ozmun is a Partner in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group. Ms. Ozmun focuses her practice on employment-based immigration with a unique specialization in the EB-5 preference category. She also advises represents a variety of individual and corporate clients seeking non-immigrant and immigrant status.

Steve Yale-Loehr is an Attorney of Counsel in Miller Mayer’s Immigration practice group who brings 30 years of immigration law experience to bear in advising corporate and individual clients on a broad array of family and employment immigration matters. In addition to his work at Miller Mayer, Mr. Yale-Loehr teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School as a Professor of Immigration Practice.

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