Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Gathering, preparing, and filing documents and petitions necessary or appropriate to assist the State, and particularly institutions of higher education, with matters involving employment-based immigration petitions for employment in the United States; 2. Counseling on employment-based work authorization applications and obtaining employment-based green cards to facilitate employment in the United States; 3. Working with Human Resource Managers and in-house counsel for the institutions of higher education in matters involving employment-based immigration processes; 4. The types of employment-based immigration petitions, include, but are not limited to: H-1B; H1-B1; E-3; TN; O-1; EB-1 Outstanding Professor & Researcher; EB-2 and EB-3 Labor Certification processes; EB-2 National Interest Waiver processes; Waivers of the J-1 Two-Year Home Residency Requirement (such as waivers supported by interested government agencies, including Conrad 30, HHS, NSF and other federal agencies); 5. After the filing of an employment-based petition, services may include responding to Requests for Additional Evidence; Notices of Intent to Deny; Audits from Labor Certification processes; motions to reconsider; motions for redetermination or appeal of denied applications. 6. Services will also include evaluation of CVs of potential employees and/or positions for filing employment-based immigration petitions at no charge to the State/institution of higher education. For example, review of a CV to evaluate chance of success of O-1 petition for a researcher who has applied for a position at a university.
