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100% Remote

• Advise Managers, Recruiters, and candidates on the appropriate US visa types• Liaise with Immigration Law firms• Ensure compliance, timely filing, and accurate record keeping• Work with employees, managers, and HR on resolving employees’ visa and status related problems and questions• Prepare and submit petitions and applications on behalf of Fermilab to enable employment of non-U.S. employees, including J-1, H-1B, TN, PERM, I-140, and AOS. Work with outside legal counsel on matters requiring a legal opinion or work overflow• Create policies and procedures (wrote the laboratory's Expatriate Assignment Policy, as well as most group-specific policies and procedures)• Create educational materials for targeted and lab-wide presentations• Administer and resolve billing issues. Approve vendor invoices• Train staff on various immigration filings, review their work for accuracy and act as an SME on all immigration matters• Maintain knowledge of changing U.S. visa law and regulations; advise Laboratory management on visa issues which may affect Laboratory interests; ensure that policies and procedures reflect current visa law, regulations, and processing requirements• Research and distribute guidance material on U.S. visa and foreign visa and travel topics; provide timely and relevant U.S. visa related information to managers, employees, and visitors via individual contact, periodic lectures and meetings, and revisions to the Visa Office webpage• Maintain the Visa Office webpage to reflect current information, critical announcements, or procedural changes by relevant government agencies; maintain up-to-date knowledge of such news or changes, and identify and research corollary issues proactively• Workday, Docketwise, LawLogix, MS Suite

Chicago, Il

• Prepare non-immigrant and immigrant petitions and applications, including PERM, H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, TN, I-140 (Multinational Manager), I-485, AC-21 Port, etc.• Oversee, assign work to, and mentor junior team members. Serve as team SME on PERM matters.• Work with corporate clients and foreign nationals to identify and resolve immigration-related issues. • • • Work with HRs and foreign nationals on case strategy; communicate case progression, roadblocks and strategies alternatives to HRs, recruiters, and foreign nationals; continuously educate and inform HRs, recruiters, and foreign nationals on immigration regulations. Ensure compliance with government regulations.• Manage client billing in excess of $200k per year.• Maintain and improve client satisfaction; respond promptly to clients’ and foreign nationals’ concerns.• Maintain case management database; create case status reports; create and follow up on invoices; consistently maintain high weekly billing numbers.• Conduct I-9 Audits.• Work effectively under pressure; organize work load efficiently; prioritize and complete assignments accurately and on-time; establish amicable professional working relationships with clients and co-workers; maintain strict confidentiality.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Public Administration, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society

Aba Certified Paralegal Certificate, Paralegal Studies

Courses in Corporate, Family, Estate, and Criminal Law.

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Bba, International Business