Workplace Visas! How Will It Impact Employers and Employees in the Workplace?
Duration: 90 Minutes
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Id: 210355
Margie Faulk
Overview
The breakneck speed with which the new Trump administration has implemented changes to the nation's immigration policy and various federal government agencies has certainly caused confusion for many employers. No industry has been immune to those impacts, but the high-tech sector, which has long been reliant on foreign professional skilled workers, is particularly impacted. How will these changes affect the high-tech sector's future?
What are Workplace Visas?
H-2B Visa Program:
The H-2B visa program allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ nonimmigrant workers in non-agricultural jobs.
Using the first Trump administration as the measuring stick, we can expect the following developments to unfold for the remainder of 2025 and beyond:
Increased Inspections of H-1B Worksites
The news has given extensive attention to the federal government’s increased ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids to gather and deport undocumented workers, and we’ve also seen an uptick in audits of Form I-9s. The hi-tech sector rarely faces these kinds of issues since their workforce is mainly composed of highly skilled professionals within engineering, finance, and white-collar management.
Workplace Visas
The H-1B is the most common type of employment sponsorship leveraged within the hi-tech industry. Many hi-tech companies from large, publicly traded organizations to small start-ups hire H-1B workers. A majority of the H-1B sponsored workers are some of high-tech’s most critical engineers. With the U.S. adding 85,000 new H-1B employees to the workforce every year, there is no doubt this has been a valuable resource for high-tech employers that cannot find enough qualified U.S. workers to fulfill these roles.
F-1 and J-1 Student Visa: The most common visa for international students, requires proof of admission, financial stability, and intent to go back home after graduation. These student visa rules are subject to change under different administrations, impacting the eligibility and application process for international students.
Recent statements by Trump advisors Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, along with President Donald Trump himself, suggest the second Trump Administration may take a more favorable stance on H-1B visas compared to the “America First” approach of the past. This was initiated when Musk and Ramaswamy provided this flexibility option because they used the Visa program to gain citizenship.
Why you should Attend
President Trump has eliminated CBP One, an app that granted appointments, based on a lottery system, to 1,450 people per day at one of eight border crossings. Individuals granted appointments were "humanely paroled" into the United States pursuant to presidential authority.
Once in the United States, these individuals were permitted to apply for work authorization, and they often also apply for asylum. It is unclear if individuals currently in the United States pursuant to Biden-era humanitarian parole, which protects them from deportation, will be able to renew their parole and work authorization.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Learn what workplace restrictions are impacting Employers who count on Foreign workers to be competitive when it comes to technology, science, math, and engineering
- Learn why some workers are critical of the Foreign workers' sponsorship programs
- Learn where the Birthright Citizenship Executive Order is being mitigated legally
- Learn how workplace Visas are being changed or modified to only include advanced degrees to be selected
- Learn what Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has been impacted and what the status is
- Learn how the Temporary Protected Status has now been terminated
- Learn how Workplace Visa’s manages the lottery process to select eligible and qualified workers
- Learn what the benefits are for Visa recipients
- Learn what the CAP program is and why it was terminated
- Learn how Employers who have refugee workers have to accommodate the loss of these workers
- Learn how to keep up to date on the Immigration guidelines that can impact Employers and employees
Who Will Benefit
- All Employers
- Business Owners
- Company Leadership
- Compliance professionals
- HR Professionals
- Managers/Supervisors
Speaker Profile
This includes Federal Contracting in the defense, military, anti-Terrorism and Apache Helicopter Training Simulations with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG) and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP). Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.
Margie's focus has expanded to Global Workplace Compliance in International, multi-state, multi-National, state and local workplace compliance which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few. Margie has created and presented seminars/webinars for many compliance institutes. These national training providers, offer compliance training to HR professionals, business owners and companies interested in having their company compliant with workplace and industry regulations. Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).
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