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Updates You Need to Know About Employment and Immigration Law

Updates You Need to Know About Employment and Immigration Law

Workplace Fairness • 30 NOV 2020

Workplace Fairness partnered with immigration attorney Jonathan Grode in a live webinar to discuss employment and immigration law. Here, they discuss hot-button topics and answer some pressing questions about COVID-19, work, and of course, workers rights.

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La denegación del visado H-1B se considera "arbitraria y caprichosa

La denegación del visado H-1B se considera "arbitraria y caprichosa

Semanario de Abogados de Rhode Island - 16 ABR 2020

Un juez federal ha determinado que el director general de operaciones de una empresa de restauración con múltiples establecimientos ejerce una "ocupación especializada", tal como se define en 8 U.S.C. §1184, a efectos de un visado H-1B, y que la conclusión contraria del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de EE.UU. fue arbitraria y caprichosa. Más información en este artículo de Barry Bridges.

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005 Current situation with U.S. visas: A lawyer’s perspective w/ J.Grode

005 Current situation with U.S. visas: A lawyer’s perspective w/ J.Grode

Masson International • 4 AUG 2020

In episode 5 of the Ouvrir Une Filiale Aux Etats-Unis podcast, Nicolas Bernard-Masson welcomes Jonathan Grode, U.S. Practice Director and Managing Partner in Philadelphia at Green and Spiegel U.S., an immigration law firm. He deciphers the current situation for visas in the USA and how to obtain a work or investor visa in the United States in this very specific context of the global crisis linked to COVID-19.

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Locals Speak on Supreme Court’s DACA Decision

Locals Speak on Supreme Court’s DACA Decision

NBC 10 Philadelphia • 18 JUN 2020

The Supreme Court ruled against a plan from the Trump Administration to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk spent the day speaking with people personally impacted by the decision.

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Many Have Questions After President Trump Vows to Temporarily Suspend Immigration Into US

Many Have Questions After President Trump Vows to Temporarily Suspend Immigration Into US

Channel 69 News WFMZ-TV • ​21ST ​​APR 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A tweet from the White House late Monday night spurred questions and speculation about what a future executive order might entail. President Trump tweeted: “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” Those few sentences prompted hundreds of phone calls and emails to John Grode, an immigration attorney.

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Judges Slap Down USCIS Again On H-1B Visas

Judges Slap Down USCIS Again On H-1B Visas

Forbes • ​8TH ​​APR 2020

In three new court cases, federal judges have decided that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) unlawfully denied H-1B petitions for foreign-born professionals. The decisions, which all involve USCIS improperly limiting the definition of a specialty occupation, may bring greater certainty to employers and potential visa holders during uncertain economic times.

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Green and Spiegel: COVID-19 Immigration Impact | Growing Greater

Green and Spiegel: COVID-19 Immigration Impact | Growing Greater

Matt Cabrey • ​31ST ​​MAR 2020

As the global pandemic of COVID-19 continues to evolve each day, the problems that immigrants face increases as borders close, layoffs hit the workforce, and contaminate becomes the main focus for many countries. This week on “Growing Greater” we wanted to see how this state of affairs is affecting immigrants who are living and working in the United States. Jonathan Grode is the U.S. Practice Director at Green and Spiegel U.S., an immigration law firm with operations across North America with their U.S. headquarters right here Philadelphia. Jonathan talked with Matt Cabrey, Executive Director of Select Greater Philadelphia, a council of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia about how we can go from containment to reconstruction.

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