Avoiding the Pitfalls of H-1B’s and Green Cards: What You Need to Know Before You Sponsor
Track: International HR
You plan to make an offer of employment to a foreign national. What do you need to know before you sponsor your new hire for an H-1B and/or a green card? Since the downturn in the U.S. economy, government agencies are applying increasing scrutiny to employer-sponsored petitions. This recent trend has made the sponsorship process more difficult for the employer. In this session, you will learn how to spot issues before they become problems and enhance your chances of filing successful petitions.
Gali Schaham Gordon
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.