An Immigration Dashboard For Human Resource Professionals - Part 2

Article by Angelo Paparelli and Lily S. Hensel

Examining Maintenance Of Status Prior To Offering Employment

Often, when an employer wishes to hire an employee, the employer wants the hiring done immediately. With an expedited procedure known as the USCIS Premium Processing Service, employers can now hire foreign national workers much more quickly than before this system was put in place.⁴⁸ Moreover, under a new law, the American Competitiveness in the 21^st Century Act (AC21), two categories of foreign employees (workers with H-1B visa status and certain adjustment of status applicants who hold open market EADs), may now invoke a right of "portability" and likewise change employers more quickly than before.⁴⁹