Welcome to the 2020 AILA/GMS Virtual Annual Global Immigration Forum
GLOBAL IMMIGRATION PRACTICE IN A PANDEMIC-DRIVEN UNIVERSE: SMALL STEPS AND GIANT LEAPS FOR HUMANKIND
Agenda Wednesday, December 2, 2020
8:45 am-8:50 am ET Welcome and Greetings
Clayton Cartwright, AILA GMS 2020 Conference Committee Chair, Columbus, GA
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/99581592206
9:00 am-10:00 am ET The Battle-scarred Starship Global Immigration: Emerging From The Pandemic Lockdown
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of global immigration seemed bipolar: many nations were tightening immigration, compelled by nationalist agendas, while other countries continued to open their borders in the race for global talent. During the pandemic and recovery, global immigration experiences significant interruptions and obstacles. Our faculty for this opening panel will report on the state of play in a pandemic-driven world.
- How Global Migration Came to a Standstill
- National Economic Emergency Measures and Their Effect on Global Mobility
- Pandemic’s Effect on Global Mobility under Existing Trade Relationships, Including Brexit
- How and When the Easing of Restrictions Will Stimulate Global Mobility
Faculty:
- Bushra Malik (DL), AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee Immediate Past Chair / AILA Michigan Chapter Chair, Bloomfield Hills, MI
- Marco Mazzeschi, AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee, Milan, Italy
- Eugene Chow, Hong Kong
- David Garson, Toronto, ON
- Nicolas Rollason, London, UK
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/99581592206
10:00 am-10:30 am ET Networking Break
10:30 am-11:30 am ET The Effect Of The Pandemic-redesigned Workplace On Global Immigration Practice
Just like telemedicine made years of progress over a few months of the pandemic, skilled work now can be performed remotely, and all employers have to embrace the new reality of home offices and empty corporate headquarters. The panel will discuss the crossroads of tax, employment and immigration laws, and will address how countries’ immigration regimes will keep up with the new reality.
- Delinking of Services and Geography: Working Without Physical Presence
- Remote Work and Other New Forms of Work
- Is Labor Market Testing Relevant Anymore with Enhanced Global Trade in Services?
- Realignment of Employment and Visa Options, Including Digital Nomad and Freelancer Visas
Faculty:
- Clayton Cartwright (DL), AILA GMS 2020 Conference Committee Chair, Columbus, GA
- Nina Perch-Nielsen, AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee, Zurich, Switzerland
- Elise Fialkowski, Philadelphia, PA
- Lois Gimpel Shaukat, New York, NY
- Adrian Ojeda Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/99578793665
11:30 am-12:00 pm ET Networking Break
12:00 pm-1:00 pm ET Best Ethical Practices When Both Lawyer And Client Are In Crisis Mode
During a crisis on the scale of a pandemic, it is best human nature to reach out to colleagues and business partners, to offer support with maximum flexibility. However, the rules and responsibilities of ethics are not erased by a crisis, even a pandemic. Our panel will analyze how close is ethically feasible when representing clients during a crisis.
- Expedited and Ethical Practices to Represent New Clients in an Emergency
- How Virtual Can Representation Be? Is There an Emergency Exception?
- How Much Assistance Can Lawyer and Client Provide Each Other in a Crisis Without Triggering a Conflict-of-Interest?
- Risk of Unauthorized Practice of Law
Faculty:
- Gregory H. Siskind (DL), AILA Board of Governors, Memphis, TN
- Diana Bauerle, Champaign, IL
- Laura Devine, London, UK
- Sergio Karas, Toronto, ON
- Marcel Reurs, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/93698283818
1:00 pm-1:30 pm ET Lunch
1:30 pm-2:30 pm ET In The Eye Of A Cosmic Storm: Emergency Global Immigration Advice During A Pandemic
Assignments, before COVID-19, could be fraught with issues and mistakes with potential negative ramifications for both the assignee and the sponsor. Combine that environment with the cosmic storm of a pandemic, and the immigration lawyer seemingly is compelled to multitask as both a compliance advisor and a travel agent. Our faculty will explore how to best respond to an emergency on the scale of a pandemic, and how to best position the assignee and the sponsor for productive and compliant assignments.
- Stabilizing the Employment and Home Situations of Assignee During an Emergency
- Development of a Temporary Remote Work Strategy
- Bringing the Assignee Home, Parking the Assignee, and Unwinding the Temporary Remote Work Strategy
- Best Emergency Practices to Adopt to Combat the Next Pandemic-Scale Emergency
- Placing Employees at Safe Third Country Temporary Assignments
Faculty:
- Audrey Lustgarten (DL), Petoskey, MI
- Alexis Axelrad, AILA Board of Governors, New York, NY
- Julia Onslow-Cole, London, UK
- Jane Pilkington, AILA GMS 2020 Conference Committee, Dublin, Ireland
- Ara Samuelian, Vevey, Switzerland
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/98954374176
2:30 pm-3:00 pm ET Networking Break
3:00 pm-4:00 pm ET Hyperdrive: Practicing Global Immigration Law In The Electronic Age
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice of global immigration law was being transitioned online. In a pandemic world, this transition is occurring at warp speed. Our faculty will probe the effects of this transition on visa options, communications with governmental agencies, and client data protection.
- The Rise and Expansion of Electronic Visas
- Liaison with, and Policy Advocacy to, Governmental Agencies That Are Working Electronically and Remotely
- A New Era of Electronic Correspondence, Appearances, and Filings
- Best Practices in Protecting Client Data under GDPR
Faculty:
- Lisa Atkins (DL), AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee, San Francisco, CA
- Tommy Angermair, Aarhus, Denmark
- Poorvi Chothani, Mumbai, India
- Ravi Jain, AILA GMS 2020 Conference Committee, Toronto, ON
- Phillip Yip, AILA GMS 2020 Conference Committee, Sydney, Australia
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/98511662033
4:00 pm-4:30 pm ET Networking Break
4:30 pm-5:30 pm ET The Reinvention Of Global Immigration Policy And Practice In A Pandemic Universe
When the pandemic struck, governments worldwide, on both the left and the right, locked down global immigration in an effort to contain COVID-19. Our faculty will explore how global immigration practitioners can maximize the effectiveness of their practice and advice in a pandemic-redesigned workplace. This closing panel will address this question and opine as to how the immigration lawyer can navigate, and even thrive in, this brave new universe.
- Is There a New International Political Consensus of Severe Curtailment of Global Immigration?
- Will Pro-Environment Corporate Policies Quash Global Immigration?
- How Will the Practice of Global Immigration Law Change with Increasing Competition from Non Lawyers, Artificial Intelligence and Competing Service Delivery Models?
- Will Global Immigration Law Be Redefined as the Practice of “Global Services Law”?
Faculty Speakers:
- Ellen Freeman (DL), AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee Chair / AILA Board of Governors, Pittsburgh, PA
- Farshad Owji, AILA Second Vice President, San Francisco, CA
- Amit Acco, Raman Gat, Israel
- Matthew Amoils, Sydney, Australia
- Paul Justas Sarauskas, Chicago, IL
Session Link: https://zoom.us/j/98289767718
5:35 pm-5:40 pm ET Closing Remarks
Ellen Freeman, AILA Global Migration Section Steering Committee Chair / AILA Board of Governors, Pittsburgh, PA
Thank You to All the Volunteers Who Make the Virtual Annual Global Immigration Forum Possible!
Conference Planning Committee
- Clayton Cartwright, Conference Planning Committee Chair, Columbus, GA
- Ann Chau, Conference Planning Committee Vice Chair, San Jose, CA
- Ravi Jain, Toronto, ON
- Haidar “Eddie” Mike Kadri, Windsor, ON
- Ganesh Kalyanaraman, Sacramento, CA
- Gabriela Lessa, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
- George Maxwell, Minneapolis, MN
- Jane Pilkington, Dublin, Ireland
- Phillip Yip, Sydney, Australia
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