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If there is a single issue (besides the daily barrage of EB-5 inquiries) about which folks have been emailing me the past few weeks , it is definitely the Priority Date situation. F-1 students, in particular, have evolved from the standard concerns about the transition from OPT to H-1B status ...
Jose E. Latour Feb 22, 2010

Part 3.5- Last 2 minutes of F-1 to Perm Residency Blog

Jose E. Latour Feb 19, 2010

PART 3 -Video: U.S. Permanent Residency for F-1 Students

Sigh...I did it AGAIN. The third installment went over by a minute so look for 3.5, which is a quick two minutes.I have to get a stopwatch. I talk SOOOOOO much.Have a great weekend and remember: in addition to the useful information I provide in these video blogs for F-1 students looking...
Jose E. Latour Feb 19, 2010

Video: U.S. Permanent Residency for F-1 Students- PART 2

This second part of the blog discusses the options available to graduating F-1 students with entrepreneurial ambitions.…
Jose E. Latour Feb 18, 2010

Video: U.S. Permanent Residency for F-1 Students- PART 1

This first of three discusses the "traditional" paths to a green card for F-1 students…
Jose E. Latour Feb 18, 2010

Buncha Stuff….some good, some scary…

...GOOD GRIEF what have I gotten myself into? Here I am thinking this blog will be a nice little writing outlet but a hyper-caffeinated Chertoff and minions have me playing Headline News...here's the latest from that wacky cast of characters in your national capitol...-USCIS announced tod...
Jose E. Latour Jun 11, 2008

HSA’s Chertoff: The Heat and Raids will Continue

Yesterday was a busy immigration day in Washington: not only did the President finally invoke the long-promised mandate of requiring E-Verify from all federal contractors, but two of his execs hunkered down for a rather verbose press conference dubbed the "State of Immigration Address"....
Jose E. Latour Jun 10, 2008

Why GCs are Embracing Workforce Compliance

InsideCounsel magazine recently reported the results of an innovative study undertaken by another publication, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting. In the survey/study, over 1000 General Counsels and board directors were asked about the steps they are taking to mitigate risk wit...
Jose E. Latour Nov 20, 2007

Workforce Compliance: Outside Counsel vs. Outside SOLUTION

Counsel to Counsel magazine ran an interesting article in its October 2007 issue entitled "Choosing the Right Outside Counsel" The article is a helpful analysis of what GCs should look for when reaching outside of their own corporate resources for the solution of a legal matter.The a...
Jose E. Latour Nov 01, 2007

Metagaming, Economics, and Global HR Compliance

Today I am going to talk about the LEAST talked about 2007 Nobel Prize, the one in Economics, awarded to three U.S.-based economists - game theory pioneer Leo Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson. After half a century of work in a little-known but massively cool area of game theory, it’s about tim...
Jose E. Latour Oct 25, 2007