Teaching Employment-Based Migration

With all the drama over the president’s EOs, lawful employment-based migration may be the furthest thing from your mind. But you’ll still have to teach it. So let me offer a few thoughts on the subject.

Your students will want to see the most recent visa bulletin. And you’ll want to pair that with data about LPRs employment-based admissions and nonimmigrant employment-based admissions.

On the LPR front – I like to spend time with students on EB-5 visas. If you do too, don’t forget the NEW regulations proposed by DHS on January 13 which just might have slid off your radar with everything else we dealt with in January. DHS has proposed increasing the required financial contributions for EB-5 investors from $1 million to $1.8 million. For regional investors, the contribution will go from $500K to $1.35 million. That’s a big change. If you like stats and charts, this link will give you some colorful ones to add to your discussion of EB-5.

As you might imagine, I have a hard time reigning myself in when it comes to nonimmigrant employment-based migration. I talk about H1B3 models (and have my students do a legislative exercise on the topic). I talk about Disney. And when it comes to J-visa holders, I like to bring in a little Aziz Ansari:

-KitJ