The Perils of Thinking Inside the Visa Box

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on companies which are "getting creative" to deal with U.S. visa bottlenecks.  I eagerly started reading to see what creative juices were flowing in the pretty uninspired world of immigration compliance.  I was disappointed to see that, in reality, it was nothing more than the "same old, same old":"parking" employees in overseas jurisdiction at great expense while their skills are desperately needed by the U.S. enterprise.encouraging critical technical professionals to pursue unneeded advanced degrees to "buy time" in F-1 student status till H-1B visa numbers become available.Rescinding job offers (and leaving critical positions unfilled) until visas became unavailable.As the WSJ concludes, all of …

Hello, Everyone!

Welcome to Immigration Insider.  After almost two decades of looking out for the interests of leading corporations and the tremendous compliance problems they face with governmental regulations relating to immigration and labor laws, I’ve decided to launch a blog written for the HR and Legal representatives who these issues most affect.For years — in fact, before "blog" was a word — I published a column called "Port of Entry", which grew to have thousands of daily readers. While "Port of Entry" was directed at the general business immigration market (i.e., both employers and visa beneficiaries), this column is going to focus specifically on the issues affecting U.S. corporations which must depend upon international workers in the course of their busines…