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Dan Berger explains that up until now, work-sponsored visas have been a tough sell for undocumented immigrants, as they require them to leave the country for an undetermined amount of time and receive a waiver to be readmitted to the United States

How a 2022 update streamlines the green card process. Written by Jonathan Grode, Barbara Leen, Amy Nice, and Joshua Rolf. Learn more on Institute for Progress (IFP)

By removing politics from the equation, this presentation examines the cause of our current immigration dilemma rather than focusing on its effect. Only through a reframing of the immigration debate will progress be forged. For a free consultation please email: info@gands-us.com

The 2024 WNBA draft will occur on Monday, April 15 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The league invited 15 prospects to participate in person, four of whom are international athletes, which is roughly 27%. With skyrocketing viewership, talent and international fans, it would stand to reason that NCAA basketball is an internationally recognized level of performance, but the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) begs to differ. Kirby Lee of USA TODAY Sports spoke with Ksenia Maiorova, Partner at Green and Spiegel, U.S. for additional insights.

Growing momentum toward classification of college athletes as employees of their schools is raising major questions about international students’ continued visa eligibility. Andrew Kreighbaum, Reporter for Bloomberg Law, speaks with Ksenia Maiorova, Partner at Green and Spiegel, U.S. about how employee status may conflict with student visa work limits and how workarounds to cash in on NIL are not available on the scale needed.

United States immigration regulations prohibit international students in the U.S. on F-1 student visas from participating in employment. F-1 visas provide for only limited employment authorization types, most of which must be connected to the degree the athletes pursue. If an employee model is ushered in for some athletes, “overnight we could have any number of international student-athletes that are immediately in violation of their [F-1 student] status,” Ksenia Maiorova told Eric Prisbell of On3 NIL.

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team faces a union election following a landmark decision by a National Labor Relations Board regional director, signaling a potential transformation in the relationship between Division I college athletes and their institutions. Nick Messineo at the Business of College Sports interviewed Ksenia Maiorova about the implications for the Dartmouth roster, the changing landscape for international student-athletes in the NCAA, and organizational or institutional advocacy.

On November 14, 2023, Temple Law School hosted a Live Online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program, “The Economics of Immigration: How Current Law Does Not Meet the Reality of Modern Business in the U.S.,” led by Jonathan Grode (LAW ’08), U.S. Practice Director of Green and Spiegel, LLP and adjunct professor at Temple. The program’s purpose was two-fold: 1) to highlight the disconnect between modern US immigration law, which has been largely static since the 80’s, and America’s evolving economic needs and 2) to discuss potential solutions for building a more rational, effective legal framework for business immigration. Learn more in this article by by Samuel M. Johnson (’25).

In 2021, the NCAA made major headlines when they announced that student athletes would finally be allowed to monetize from their name, image and likeness. The market for NIL deals, as they’re called, has exploded, bringing in an estimated $1 billion annually. But international student athletes have been left out of the lucrative deals due to visa laws. The World’s Bianca Hillier interviewed Ksenia Maiorova about NIL Immigration, misinformation about the law, and why schools are coming to her for advice due to her success in moving students from F-1 visas to P-1 visas, O-1 visas and even green cards.