Immigration Nerds

Erickson Immigration Group Managing Director Hiba Anver helps map out the latest iteration of the Travel Ban, executive order.

We discuss the latest in immigration news that happened this week including: Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to lift preliminary injunction on Public Charge ruling The economy of Birth Tourism, and what the administration plans to do to combat its growth Travel Ban predictions and the reasoning used to justify its impending expansion

In honor of Lunar New Year, we are releasing a past episode that dives into the traditions, myths and lore surrounding the holiday. EIG attorneys Stephanie Tan and Dora Wang join to share their family experiences.

EIG’s Senior Attorney and Liberian Native Jowanda Jones joins the podcast to explain the latest in the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act. She shares how to qualify for the act that now allows a direct pathway to citizenship. In addition, we unravel Liberia's inseparable ties to the United States, revealing just how American Liberians truly are.

Executive producer and Host of "Immigrantly" podcast Saadia Khan joins. Immigrantly is a weekly podcast that captures the honest and unfiltered accounts of first and second generation immigrants in America. Saadia holds an MBA, and masters in Human Rights. She seeks to mend the current state of polarization and divisiveness among cultural, racial and ethnic lines. Together we discuss the experienc...

As the holiday season nears, EIG wants to ensure that you have the documentation and information you need for international travel. We go over some frequently asked questions with answers to make sure you are well on your way during this busy time.

In today’s brief update, USCIS recently announced the new Electronic Registration requirement for the upcoming H-1b Lottery. EIG’s Managing Director Hiba Anver joins the podcast to share what to expect for this upcoming CAP season.

Today’s unprecedented access to a global workforce has increasingly led both companies and employees to opt for temporary projects, often located remotely. Employees enjoy the freedom of having autonomy over the direction of their careers, while employers can now find the exact puzzle piece to solve their company’s problem. In short, the "Gig Economy". Peter C. Evans, Managing Partner for Platform...

Thanksgiving Food Trivia List Play along with us! Stuffing Cranberry Sauce Mac N Cheese Sweet Potato Pie Turkey Green Bean Casserole Mashed Potatoes Pumpkin Pie Origins: France, America, African-American, Native-American, Mexico, Italian, German, Roman Empire, England Time: Since the beginning, 1390, 14th Century, 15th Century, 1651, 1747, 18th Century, 1912, 1955

Ayuda is a non-profit service provider that offers immigration and family law assistance, in addition to social and language access support for low-income immigrants in the US. They specialize in services for “Dreamers,” survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, as well as LGBTQ immigrants. Josh shares more about their growing initiatives and the driving motivations behind their mission.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court held an oral argument to deliberate over the White House’s plan to roll back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The policy, first implemented by the Obama administration in August 2012, allows undocumented individuals who were brought to the country as children to live and work in the US safe from deportation. DACA, if canceled, would place over 600,0...

Joining us today is Salesforce Director of Global Mobility and Immigration, Laura Young. She oversees all inbound and outbound immigration employment operations for Salesforce. Which includes managing US and Global Immigration as a whole for the company. But today, she sits down with EIG's Justin Parsons and Hiba Anver to speak about what she has seen and learned volunteering at the border in Dill...

The EU Council and UK Government have postponed Brexit's fate until January 31st, 2020. In lieu of this development, we revisit the past episode with Kahn Branch, to understand the man centered around this story, Boris Johnson.

Today we discuss how the government is collecting DNA samples from immigrants migrating to the United States. Sci-Fi film? No. just the latest news.

Co-Founder of Bistream Makoto Takeda joins the podcast. Bistream orchestrates business partnerships with companies, investors and universities based in Japan and Germany. He explains the mission behind his company and the mutual benefit created between these two global markets.

BREAKING NEWS on the latest public charge regulation. Judge George Daniels of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan issued a preliminary nationwide injunction prohibiting the administration from enforcing the rule a few days before it was slated to take effect on Tuesday. Erickson Immigration Group's Justin Parson and Hiba Anver weighs in.

Do H-4EAD holders present harmful competition for U.S. workers. If so, how can that be quantified?  Erickson Immigration Groups' Kahn Branch and James Vandenberg, attended Save Jobs USA V. DHS circuit court hearing, to find out. Today they share what they gathered.

Associate Director of Government Relations at American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Diane Rish, joins Immigration Nerds along with EIG attorney's Hiba Anver and Storm Estep. Through multiple FOIA requests and painstaking litigation, AILA along with American Immigration Council won access to USCIS documents that revealed adjudication practices for H-1b petitions. In simple terms, they re...

What technical skills do American companies value among the best and brightest? Which approach should specialists take to stay current and flexible in the industry? We explore this idea by using Erickson Immigration Group as a real-world case study. EIG provides value to clients by remaining nimble when it comes to implementing innovative ideas. To usher us through this conversation we invite EIG’...

What is the price of freedom of expression in the land of the free? A US visa, citizenship maybe? Do you consider your online identity and associations as an accurate representation of your true values? And somewhere, the constitution has to fit into this equation. To help work out this math we welcome Erickson Immigration Group attorney Ryan M. Knight.

Today is a special episode — we are celebrating the Immigration Nerds podcast's first anniversary! We started in a tiny room with a few attorneys and a producer, all of us racking our brains to tackle the day. We now have a guest list and audience that is truly worldwide. We are humbled have the brightest minds in immigration sit down with us, and especially thank Dave Bier, Laura D. Francis,...

This week was filled with news of consecutive restrictive measures taken place within immigration. To make sense of the week and to address what is being done about it, we brought in a dedicated advocate within the space, Greg Chen. Greg is the Director of Government Relations for American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He directs his team in congressional advocacy, legislative refor...

The idea of denying outsiders based upon their likelihood of success in America is an enforcement, that predates immigration law itself. It’s the question of, are you likely to be a burden on society or not? In history, the faces and nationalities of who America deemed capable of carrying their weight, has changed throughout time. So today we take a historical approach to the idea and welcome Hist...

BONUS EPISODE: 4-6 million Venezuelan’s have fled the country to date, nearly 20% of the entire country's population. Brookings Institution’s Dany Bahar details the surrounding political, social and economic conditions responsible for this mass migration, and what it means for the Venezuelan people, government and neighboring countries.

David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Dany Bahar, from Brookings Institution, joins Immigration Nerds. How do you quantify the economic value of cultural knowledge? The ability to share one's unique know-how within the marketplace which ultimately leads to new innovations. How would you collect this hand full of intangibles and somehow alchemize it into numbers, graphs, and powerpoints? Dany is tackling jus...