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Leveraging Your Voice (Bonus Ep 38)

May 26, 2015 by Mark Deal Leave a Comment

Mark DealIn this special bonus episode, I describe how Immigration Leaders can leverage the power of their voice to build their community

Since relaunching the show last week, and launching an open call to action for Leaders within the Immigration community to come on this show and our upcoming video panels, I have received a lot of questions that boil down to two categories.

  1. Why would I want to do this?

  2. How do I go about doing this?

I actually covered both of these, a much more, in an article I wrote for the EB-5 Investors Magazine. So I re-purposed that article, threw in some updates and bring it to you here.


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Resources I talk about in this article and in this podcast:

  • Get a webcam like the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920, 1080p Widescreen Video Calling and Recording

  • Get a microphone like the Audio-Technica ATR2100 Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone

  • Get a great start and expand your influence by appearing on shows in  your industry, such as this one

  • Start your own show using the Legal Podcasting Resource by Entertainment Lawyer Gordon Firemark


I cover some ground on why you should consider using your voice and the Power of The Podcast. Below are the requirements and steps I outlined in the episode

Basic requirements

  1. Content.  Make sure you have something to say before you say it.
  2. A Platform for Voice & Video. I mention Skype, but Google Hangouts is also gaining in popularity.
  3. A good webcam and microphone.
    1. The Logitech Webcam C920 supports 1080p Widescreen Video Calling and Recording (The buiness calss c930 is a bit harder to use and doesn’t come with recording software)
    2. The Audio-Technica ATR2100 Microphone is a Dynamic microphone that can hookup via USB and XLR (for higher end audio equipment)
  4. Software

The next steps

  1. Start recording your thoughts. Use a program such as Evernote
  2. Offer one free consultation per week. I also describe what to do with this time and why I don’t believe in free consults all week
  3. Appear on other voice or video outlets. We have an open call for leaders on this show. Learn more here.
  4. Host your own show. Entertainment Lawyer Gordon Firemark just launched a great resource for launching your own Legal Podcast
  5. Build and cultivate your community. I have a lot to say about this. I will be sharing my thoughts and those of other experts. Please make sure you subscribe to our email list to get this insider information.

Content caveats

  1. Don’t start from the ‘Basics’
  2. Be mindful of the large information gap of clients to attorneys

The original article was original written by me and first appeared in the Winter 2015 edition of EB-5 Investors Magazine

Leverage the Power of Your Voice to Build Your EB-5 Community

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Greg Siskind: Executive Actions on Business and Employment Immigration (Ep. 34)

January 27, 2015 by Mark Deal 1 Comment

In this episode we talk to immigration attorney Greg Siskind about the impact of President Obama’s executive actions on business and employment immigration

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Greg SiskindGreg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser and has practiced immigration law for nearly 25 years. He writes several books including the annually published LexisNexis J-1 Visa Guidebook, the ABA’s Lawyers Guide to Marketing on the Internet and SHRM’s Employer’s Immigration Compliance Desk Reference. In 1994, he created the first immigration law web site and in 1998 he created the world’s first law blog. Greg was recently named by Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law as one of the top ten immigration lawyers in the world and is the only immigration lawyer ever featured on the cover of the American Bar Association Journal. He also serves on Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

In this episode you will hear:

  • The impact of President Obama’s recent executive actions on business and employment immigration.

  • Advocacy campaign when then H1B caps was raised. The timing when Feds lower and raise the number of H1B caps depends on the economy.

  • Legal Immigration Reform

    • The concept of pre-registration that could impact people that are waiting in employment based green card lines where they will allow those people to file for employment authorization documents & travel documents even though they can’t file an Adjustment application because green card numbers are not available and that really has a big impact on China and India in particularly employment based second preference category for advanced skilled workers and the lowest skilled workers also will be able to work immediately after filing a green card application as opposed to having to wait for 10-12 years to get their green card.

    • Recapturing unused green cards.
    • The concept of visa modernization basically President Obama directing USCIS and the State Department to look at modernizing the visa system and considering a variety of ways that they can make the system work efficiently.

    • All federal agencies make the announcements of new rules and proposed rule making. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State jointly published a request basically for information, put out a series of questions, asking for feedbacks on how to improve the immigration system.

  • The National Interest Waiver green card holder category which is traditionally been used for people on the Sciences to be opened up for Entrepreneurs.

  • To use the authority which the immigration services called “parole in place” which will allow certain Entrepreneurs who are considered to be providing “significant public benefit” to be able to get what’s called “parole status” in the U.S. which allows them to be in the U.S. and work without necessarily having to fit into an existing visa category.

  • People on H1B visas right now their spouses can’t work on the basis of being a spouse, that is supposed to be changing where H4 Spouses are gonna be able to get work authorization, that’s coming out sometime in the next couple of weeks.

  • Memo dealing with L1B Specialized Knowledge Workers, these are intracompany transfers for people working for at least a year overseas  for a company in highly specialized position and the company wants to bring them over, the State Department and the Immigration Service has been very inconsistent and has been very difficult in approving applications for people in that category and hopefully this guidance memo is gonna make it easier for the companies to be able to file applications that can get approved.

  • Other options:
    • H1B Students to request for visa extension for up to 29 months which is used to be just 12 months.

    • Being able to apply for Adjustment Application or Special Work Authorization on the basis of having a green card application filed and maybe able to transition from Student status into the Work status type of the green card and skip the H1B all together.   

  • Message to HR Managers or HR Fields
    • They have to be active in an organization or have the access to information that’s coming out these changes.

    • Go to an organization like SHRM. SHRM has been active in implicating an employment based immigration reform and putting a lot of information out to their members.

    • If you are a company with outside immigration counsel, check with your outside lawyers to see what kind of information you’re putting out.

    • Be proactive and go out and work with a number of immigration lawyers.

    • Continue educating yourselves.

    • It’s important to understand the timings of when these applications are gonna be about to be filed when people are gonna get their work authorization documents, what to happen when there is a sticky issue with your workers.

  • Habits that contribute to success:
    • Technology has given us marketing boosts because of the internet. Being an early adapter to keep your marketing edge and make you more efficient and could help you be able to produce high-quality work.

    • Always try to investigate where there are technology solutions out there that can improve the quality of your work.

    • A lot of people who are not great marketers are pretty good writers, try and channel talents into business development. Try to figure out where your talents lie.

Greg’s parting thoughts:

  • 2015 will be a very exciting year for immigration, head start with the President’s Announcement.

  • We’re going to see Congress, a lot of legislative initiative this year on producing immigration legislation.

  • To pay attention with what’s happening because it’s gonna change the way a lot of us have to do with immigration on a day to day basis, hope in a good way.

Greg specializes in:

Full Service Immigration Law

  • For Company needing help to get a visa for their employee.
  • Help with family immigration issues.
  • Help with removal proceedings.
  • Advice companies of employer complaints.

 

Ideas for Visa Modernization

The below 18 points were originally written by Greg Siskind on January 9, 2015 and appeared on the ILW blog at this link.

1. Streamlining and improve immigrant visa processing at US consulates.

2. Streamlining and improve non-immigrant visa processing at US consulates.

3. Improving USCIS processing of the following types of applications:

  • family-sponsored green cards
  • employment-based green cards
  • non-immigrant petitions
  • humanitarian petitions and applications (U, T and VAWA applications)
  • H-1B petitions

4. Improving the process for changing non-immigrant status.

5. Improving the process for adjusting status to permanent residency.

6. Improving the process of inspecting immigrants and non-immigrants at US ports of entry.

7. Implementing policy changes to attract the world’s most talented researchers to US universities, national laboratories, and other research institutions.

8. Implementing policy changes to attract the world’s most talented entrepreneurs who want to start businesses in the US.

9. Policies that could assist in creating additional immigration opportunities for high-demand professions such as physicians.

10. Ways to improve the EB-5 immigrant investor program.

11. How to improve labor market requirements for temporary workers to protect both US and temporary foreign workers and also achieve efficiency for employers and government agencies.

12. Improving the occupational data that is used to determine prevailing wages for various visa programs.

13. How to improve the diversity visa program including stopping fraud.

14. Any other changes to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the legal immigration system.

15. Ways to ensure that non-immigrant visa numbers are fully and fairly allocated.

16. Ways to ensure that immigrant visa numbers are fully and fairly allocated.

17. Which elements of the current legal immigration system are most in need of modernized IT solutions?

18. Which government-collected data and metrics would be must valuable to make available to the public in order to improve oversight and understanding of the legal immigration system?

Please leave your comments and suggestions for these 18 items below or at the original ILW blog post.

Filed Under: Business, E-2, EB-5, L-1, Podcast

Part 2: How to Build a Better Business Plan to Support an Immigration Visa (Ep. 31)

November 11, 2014 by Mark Deal Leave a Comment

Mark Deal talks about the second part of crafting a business plan for immigration purposes.

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Immigration Buiness PlansIn this episode you will hear:

  • Mark’s Three sided business plan to maximize impact and ease petition review.
    • Qualitative:  This is the writing of the plan and should back up the tables while supporting the petition
    • Quantitative: The hardcore numbers.  Every plan has to have realistic projections for all facets for the business
    • Graphical:  Tables and tables of numbers can be boring or worse, confusing.  Use tables to tie the quantitative and pictures to support the qualitative
  • What immigration adjudicators are looking for and common pitfalls of most plans.
  • Personnel Hiring Plan:  How to use it, and how not to rely on it too heavily (for E-2 and L-1 cases that don’t have a lot of direct reports)
  • Financial Plan covering Start-up Funding, Profit and Loss projections, Cash Flows, Balance Sheet with Net Worth and Break-even Analysis
    • What is a realistic expectation and how to document exceptions
    • How to prove a substantial investment in a business
    • How to tie start-up summaries to immigration petition forms
  • Tie everything together in a concise way for the Executive Summary
  • A quick wrap up of some of the items I didn’t cover for specific cases

Links to resources covered on this episode:

  • Form I-129: Petition for Nonimmigrant workers (i.e. E-2, L-1 and others)
  • Form I-526: Immigrant Petition for Alien Entrepreneur (i.e. EB-5)
  • 10 Payback Strategies For EB-5 Investors
  • E-2 Business Plan checklist
  • L-1A Executive Action checklist
  • EB-5 Matter of Ho checklist

Filed Under: E-2, EB-5, L-1, Leader, Podcast

Part 1: How to Build a Better Business Plan to Support an Immigration Visa (Ep. 30)

November 4, 2014 by Mark Deal Leave a Comment

Mark Deal talks about the first part of crafting a business plan for immigration purposes such as the company summary, product/service descriptions, as well as marketing and sales strategies

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Immigration Buiness PlansIn this episode you will hear:

  • A bit about my MBA background (and how MBAs are best suited to prepare business plans)
  • Why you should NOT HIRE ME
    • If you can only spend money on a business plan or an immigration attorney, use my free tools to write your own plan – invest in solid legal representation.
  • Don’t make declarations that you can’t back up with supporting documents (don’t ASK for the RFE).
  • How to use fluid strategy statements to support your case, but reduce your overall document requirements.
  • Although the Executive Summary usually appears first, work on it last (we will cover this next week)
  • Company Summary
    • Start-Up Summary and Funding Sources
    • Business Start-Up or Expansion Milestones
    • Operational overview (in comparison to an elevator pitch)
      • E-2 & EB-5 Bonus: Cover the background of the source and use of funds
      • L-1A Bonus: Offshore Business Description
      • L-1A Bonus: Executive Job Description(s) with offshore history
  • Products and Services
    • Products and Services Description
    • How many products or services should be presented
  • Marketing Analysis
    • Geographic Summary (i.e. local, Regional National, international)
    • Market Demographics vs Market Segmentation and how to use them both
    • Target Market Strategy
    • SWOT Analysis and how it relates to Competitor Analysis
      • EB-5 Bonus: Why a Competitor Analysis is expected as part of Matter of Ho precedence
  • Sales Strategy
    • Primary Marketing Campaign Strategy as it relates to your Sales Forecast
    • A 5-year sales forecast – your first business plan metric
  • Next week I’ll cover the second part of my general business plan strategies to support business immigration petitions

Dive deeper into topics discussed on this show

  • John Gezelius: Proving the Source of US Investment Funds for Foreign Entrepreneur and Investor Visas
  • Natasha Bell: Special Immigration Concerns for Private Placement Memorandums

Next Actions

  • Listen to the second part of this series 
  • Follow and interact with me on Twitter (or in the comments below)

Filed Under: Business, E-2, EB-5, L-1, Leader, Podcast

Jacob Sapochnick: Immigration Marketing through Social Media (Ep. 28)

October 21, 2014 by Mark Deal Leave a Comment

In this episode we talk to immigration attorney Jacob Sapochnick about marketing an immigration law firm through social media and the impact of immigration on entrepreneurship

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Jacob Sapochnick
Jacob Sapochnick is recognized as one of the most innovative, up and coming Immigration Lawyers in the nation.  He was featured in Retuters, ESPN, NBC, FOX and many other news outlets. His firm has one of the largest Facebook communities in the World for Lawyers. He is very much active in Social Media, he has a weekly podcast, and he maintains one of the longest running immigration blogs online.

In this episode you will hear:

  • Creating free content and making information available  for possible clients
  • Using social media to give out immigration information to everyone
  • Current trends of foreign nationals moving to the US
    • Influx of asylum cases
    • Finding solutions for people who didn’t get their working visa approved
  • Investors find it risky to invest if the participants’ visa status is questionable
  • Jason talks about his book – Entrepreneur’s Guide to Immigration

Jacob’s parting thoughts:

  1. The new way of marketing is by education and giving.
  2. Immigration attorneys should be ready by educating their staff and themselves on how to deal with immigrants.
  3. Startup immigration and asylum cases are on the rise.

Jacob specializes in:

  • Obtain work authorization for foreign nationals seeking employment in the US
  • Assist in permanent residence (green cards) application
  • Provide legal counsel and representation in family sponsored immigration matters

 Links to resources discussed on today’s show:

  • The Enchanting Lawyer Podcast
  • iOS App: Citizenship Pal 
  • iOS App: Marriage Based Green Card Guide
  • Link to Jacob’s law firm website 

Interact with us about this episode using the comments below!

Filed Under: E-2, EB-5, L-1, Leader, Podcast

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