Business Immigration Paralegal

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Business Immigration Paralegal-NYC, NJ or Atlanta, GA

The Legal Department is seeking a collaborative, highly motivated, Immigration Paralegal to join our team and provide overall support for the immigration legal function in North America with particular emphasis on the United States. The role is most suitable for an experienced paralegal with 3-5 years of law firm/in-house experience who has exceptional interpersonal, organization and communication skills. They would serve as a central point of contact regarding immigration issues with foreign nationals as well as stakeholders within the following areas: Recruiting, Human Resources, Professional Development, Mobility, Learning, Meeting Planning and In House and External Immigration Counsel.

Detailed job description

Key point of contact for U.S. for answering questions and providing information on the Firms immigration policies including sponsorship of visas (H-1B, L-1, etc.) and green cards.

Responsibilities include:

Managing communications with foreign nationals, offices, various stakeholders in PD, HR, Recruiting and others as well as internal immigration legal team and external immigration law firm, including:

Help in-house immigration counsel to manage, prepare and respond to a high volume of communications, including the drafting and storage of template stationary emails

Join one-on-one calls with in-house counsel and foreign nationals to take notes/provide information and follow up with execution of any necessary next steps

Draft broadcast e-mails and urgent alert memos on legislative, policy and practice updates with tight turnaround times for review and sign-off by immigration counsel

Work independently or with immigration counsel to prepare informational packs (using PowerPoint, Word and Excel) on various immigration topics

Work with North American HR team (NA-HR) and North American Mobility, Immigration & Eligibility Center of Excellence (NA MIE) to review and revise template employment/travel verification letters as necessary and to partner with NA-HR on any complex or unique travel letter requests

Draft work and travel support letters, such as TNs and B-1s, for review and sign-off by immigration counsel

Review and sign off of Labor Condition Applications (LCAs)

Review and sign off on immigration applications, petitions and other filings prepared by external legal counsel

Coordinate and manage PERM recruitment steps with external counsel and in-house team (including posting of NOF, intranet posting, work with stakeholders to provide guidance on resume reviews process)

Conduct briefing calls for foreign national colleagues on visa applications/green card process

Case management work with immigration counsel and various stakeholders to analyze and confirm case strategy

Managing electronic tools and databases to assist in the efficient functioning of the Immigration legal process.

Provide employment data from internal HR systems to external counsel as part of the case initiation process

Prepare monthly and ad hoc reports providing statistical analyses on companys Immigration program including status reports from external counsels electronic portal to offices, practices and leadership to ensure maintenance of legal status, timely initiation of nonimmigrant extensions and green card applications and analyses to identify a variety of other immigration related data

Other responsibilities as assigned including, but not limited to,:

Conduct basic immigration legal research and prepare summaries of same using both on-line and hard copy resources

Provide I-9 assistance to offices, including answering questions on how to complete I-9 requirements from a legal aspect

Required experience and education

Bachelors degree

Minimum 3-5 years business immigration paralegal/HR experience, preferably including at least 2 years in- house experience

Experience working with the following case types: F-1 OPT, H-1B, L-1, TN, H-1B1, E-3, J-1, O-1, and employment and marriage based green card processes

Required Skills

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)

Ability to build and leverage a strong network across many functions

Strong customer service orientation

Excels at creative problem solving and critical thinking skills

Outstanding organizational and project management skills and attention to detail with full ownership of initiatives and tasks

Ability to multi-task effectively and efficiently

Proactively drive improvement initiatives

Exercises clear and appropriate judgment in a range of situations

Extensive experience with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
Relevante, Inc.

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