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I-9 Penalty Reclassification and ICE Worksite Enforcement: Defending Employers After the Virtue Memorandum’s Repeal

Master ICE’s 2026 I-9 penalty reclassification, execute worksite raid-response protocols, and navigate state E-Verify mandates—gaining audit, defense, and compliance strategies you can deploy immediately.

2026-06-23 14:00:00

2 hours

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2026-06-23 14:00:00

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2026-06-23 14:00:00

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2026-06-23 14:00:00

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Course Overview

When the Cure Window Closed Without Notice

2026-06-23 14:00:00

For nearly three decades, the 1997 Virtue Memorandum let employers cure technical I-9 errors without penalty—until ICE’s March 16, 2026 fact sheet update reclassified more than ten of those errors as substantive violations carrying fines of $288 to $2,861 per form, eliminated the document-copy safe harbor, and narrowed the ten-day cure window, all without Federal Register notice. The shift lands as Ohio’s E-Verify Workforce Integrity Act (HB 246) takes effect and worksite enforcement accelerates, meaning any attorney advising employers on hiring compliance is now working from audit templates that expose clients to aggregate liability. This program maps every newly substantive error category, models per-form exposure under the January 2025 DHS penalty schedule and ICE’s five-factor matrix, builds the WSC Plumbing reliance defense and APA challenge for pre-March forms, structures Upjohn-privileged internal audits, and distinguishes judicial warrants from administrative warrants and Notices of Inspection in a raid-response protocol. Attendees will leave able to quantify a client’s exposure, defend pre-2026 forms, and run a worksite encounter—before ICE arrives.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
Reclassification
ICE’s March 16, 2026 fact sheet reclassified ten-plus technical violations as substantive.
02
Penalty exposure
Model per-form fines of $288 to $2,861 using ICE’s five-factor matrix.
03
Legal defenses
Deploy the WSC Plumbing reliance defense and APA challenge for pre-March forms.
04
Internal audits
Structure privileged pre-NOI audits under Upjohn and respond to 72-hour production demands.
05
Raid response
Distinguish judicial warrants, administrative warrants, and Notices of Inspection during ICE worksite encounters.
06
E-Verify mandates
Ohio HB 246 compliance obligations within the multi-state E-Verify mandate framework.

Program schedule

clock 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Responding to ICE's I-9 Penalty Reclassifications

This session examines ICE’s March 2026 reclassification of technical I-9 errors as substantive violations, teaching attorneys to model penalty exposure, assert Virtue Memorandum reliance and APA defenses, structure privileged pre-NOI audits, and respond to Notices of Inspection.

Timothy C. D’ArduiniTimothy C. D’Arduini
John W. MazzeoJohn W. Mazzeo
clock 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm EST

ICE Worksite Raids and New E-Verify Mandates

This session equips employer counsel to respond to ICE worksite encounters—distinguishing judicial warrants, administrative warrants, and Notices of Inspection—and details compliance obligations under Ohio’s HB 246 E-Verify mandate within the broader framework of state mandates.

Bruce E. BuchananBruce E. Buchanan
Greg SiskindGreg Siskind
Timothy C. D’Arduini

Timothy C. D’Arduini

Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Bruce E. Buchanan

Bruce E. Buchanan

Littler Mendelson P.C.

Greg Siskind

Greg Siskind

Siskind Susser, PC

Timothy C. D’Arduini

Timothy C. D’Arduini

Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

Timothy (Tim) C. D’Arduini is the Partner-in-Charge of Klasko Immigration Law Partners’ Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s global immigration and mobility, corporate immigration, and worksite compliance teams. A leader of the firm’s worksite compliance practice, Tim advises multinational clients on employment eligibility verification, immigration-related fraud investigations, worksite enforcement actions, and global right-to-work requirements. He is known for a holistic, collaborative, and proactive approach to managing clients’ immigration programs and sponsored populations in the United States and worldwide, tailoring strategies that advance both talent and compliance objectives.

Education & Credentials

Tim earned his B.S. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School, where he served as Senior Managing Editor of the Rutgers University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Recognition & Leadership

Tim is ranked in Chambers USA as an "Up and Coming" attorney and recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. as a "Rising Star." He was tapped to launch and manage Klasko's Washington, D.C. office, anchoring the firm's expansion into the Mid-Atlantic region and strengthening its national and international capabilities. He is also recognized for cultivating diverse, inclusive legal teams, reflecting his conviction that varied backgrounds produce the most creative and multi-dimensional client outcomes.

Professional Involvement

Tim is a frequent speaker and CLE faculty member on worksite compliance, I-9 enforcement, and immigration policy, presenting to national attorney audiences through platforms including myLawCLE. He maintains an extensive network of immigration policymakers and practitioners inside and outside the Beltway, supporting the firm's well-known impact on immigration policy and litigation.

Experience

Tim primarily serves multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies across the financial services, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, health care, insurance, and defense industries, and has overseen a multimillion-dollar U.S. visa transactions portfolio, leading day-to-day relationships with legal, HR, and business leaders that produced considerable portfolio growth. On the compliance side, he develops protocols and policies, oversees privileged internal audits that mitigate employer risk, and defends companies in administrative subpoena matters and worksite enforcement actions — including raids involving potential civil and criminal liability — integrating proactive compliance practices that help clients avoid penalties while maintaining operational integrity. Before joining Klasko, Tim was Global Immigration & Mobility Partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, a Partner at Mayer Brown, and an Associate at Baker McKenzie.
John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

John W. Mazzeo is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice and a former ICE prosecutor recognized as an authority in employment eligibility verification, with a practice centered on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance, worksite enforcement defense, and immigration-related fraud prevention. His career reflects a sustained focus on helping businesses achieve compliance and mitigate risk by pairing deep regulatory expertise with technology-driven verification solutions — a perspective shaped by experience on the government, in-house, and law firm sides of the same issues.

Education & Credentials

John earned his J.D. from Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his B.A. from Ursinus College.

Recognition & Leadership

John was appointed to Law360's 2025 Editorial Advisory Board, representing the immigration topic on the strength of his extensive knowledge of Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification law. In 2024, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee after serving as a Member from 2023 to 2024 — one of only twenty attorneys appointed to the selective committee. During his committee tenure, he authored multiple thought leadership pieces relied on by thousands of attorneys advising companies on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance and was instrumental in responding to proposed regulatory changes.

Professional Involvement

Through the AILA liaison committee, John liaises with representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the DOJ's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer on employment verification, Form I-9 requirements, enforcement efforts, and adjudication issues. He is also an active member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, where he has served as Vice-Chair of the Corporate and Securities Law Network. An accomplished speaker and author, John has presented at national conferences including SHRM, AILA, ASHHRA, and HR Florida; his insights have appeared in publications such as the ACC Docket, HR Florida Newswire, and HR Pulse; and he is frequently quoted by outlets including Bloomberg. He will serve as a panelist at AILA's 2026 Annual Conference, presenting on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance pitfalls and discrimination liability.

Experience

John brings a rare 360-degree perspective to worksite compliance. He began his enforcement career as Assistant Chief Counsel in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at DHS-ICE in Philadelphia, where he reviewed and litigated Form I-9 violations and worksite enforcement investigations across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware, and served on an interagency Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force alongside Homeland Security Investigations, the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, and the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. At ICE, he served as team lead for Form I-9 compliance and document fraud litigation, tried removal cases in Immigration Courts nationwide, and argued multiple cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals. He then moved in-house, serving as Senior Director and Associate General Counsel at Vertical Screen, Inc., where he led the design and implementation of electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions and directed the company's identity verification and fingerprinting businesses. Now at Seyfarth, he counsels employers on employment eligibility verification, ICE audits and Notices of Inspection, and enforcement defense from the firm's nationally recognized Immigration Compliance & Enforcement practice.
Bruce E. Buchanan

Bruce E. Buchanan

Littler Mendelson P.C.

Bruce E. Buchanan is Senior Counsel in Littler’s Nashville office, where he counsels employers on immigration compliance, conducts internal I-9 audits, and represents employers in ICE inspections and audits, Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER)/Department of Justice investigations, E-Verify matters, and employment-based visa work. He also maintains a labor law practice, representing employers before the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division and in collective bargaining. Few practitioners pair this depth in worksite enforcement defense with decades of front-line labor relations experience.

Education & Credentials

Bruce earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1982 and his B.S., magna cum laude, from Florida State University in 1979. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and D.C. Circuits, as well as U.S. District Courts in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Georgia.

Recognition & Leadership

Bruce has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Employment Law – Management (Tennessee) every year from 2016 through 2026. A prolific author in the field, he co-authored the I-9 and E-Verify Handbook (2017 and 2024 editions) with Greg Siskind and served as editor of the Employer Sanctions chapter of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook (2024–2025 edition). He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law for more than ten years.

Professional Involvement

Bruce is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, including its Online Review Course Committee, and formerly served on AILA's Verification & Documentation Liaison Committee. He belongs to the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Law and Labor & Employment Law sections and to the Associated General Contractors of America – Middle Tennessee. He is a frequent national speaker on immigration compliance and labor law, with recent engagements including "ICE Encounters: Raids, Audits and Warrants" (Littler Webinar, January 2026) and presentations at AILA Annual Conferences on worksite enforcement, I-9 Notices of Inspection, and anti-discrimination issues in verification, alongside regular programs for the Tennessee Hospital Association, PayrollOrg, and AGC chapters.

Experience

Bruce's practice spans the full arc of employer immigration compliance — from proactive internal audits and E-Verify counseling through ICE Notices of Inspection, IER investigations, and litigating fines before OCAHO. Before concentrating on immigration, he served as a senior trial specialist for the NLRB for 20 years, counseled clients on union-filed representation petitions, represented employers in collective bargaining, and advised on wage and hour and Family and Medical Leave Act matters. He has extensive experience representing companies in manufacturing, restaurants and hospitality, healthcare, education, staffing, construction, and food processing. His recent commentary on ICE's 2026 reclassification of I-9 substantive errors and Ohio's new E-Verify requirements reflects his position at the forefront of today's worksite enforcement developments.
Greg Siskind

Greg Siskind

Siskind Susser, PC

Greg Siskind has represented immigrants and led within the national immigration bar for more than three decades. He co-founded Siskind Susser, PC – Immigration Lawyers in 1994, Visalaw Ventures — the parent company of legal AI software company Visalaw.ai and book publisher Alan House — in 2019, and IMMpact Litigation in 2020. A longtime pioneer at the intersection of law and technology, he launched the world’s first immigration law firm website in 1994, became the first lawyer in the world with a blog in 1998, and in 2016 was among the first lawyers to publish artificial intelligence immigration tools for lawyers and consumers.

Education & Credentials

Greg earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1990, beginning practice at age 22. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1990.

Recognition & Leadership

His honors include the 2024 AILA Technology and Innovation Award, the American Bar Association’s 2022 James E. Keane Award for e-Lawyering, AILA’s 2020 Advocacy Award and 2022 Litigation Award (co-recipient), recognition as a 2023 Who’s Who Legal Global Elite Thought Leader, and a listing among the National Law Journal’s 2023 Immigration Law Trailblazers. Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law has named him among the ten most distinguished immigration lawyers in the world, and Chambers and Partners has listed him among the top 25 immigration lawyers in the US. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Immigration Law, Mid-South Super Lawyers, and is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He was the first immigration lawyer photographed for the cover of the American Bar Association Journal.

Professional Involvement

Greg serves on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a position he has held since 2010, and currently chairs the International Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. He chaired the IMG Taskforce — the physician immigration bar organization — for more than a decade, founded the Tennessee Bar Association’s immigration section, is a past council member of the ABA Law Practice Division and past chair of its Publications Board, and is a member of the Memphis Bar Association. He is also a founder of Visalaw International, the global alliance of immigration lawyers.

Experience

Greg is the author of seven books — including the J-1 Visa Guidebook, published annually by LexisNexis since 1997, The Physician’s Immigration Handbook, The I-9 and E-Verify Handbook, and Immigration for Startups: A Guide for Founders — along with hundreds of articles and book chapters. He has drafted immigration-related legislation and testified as an expert before the US House of Representatives Immigration Subcommittee. In 1994 he began publishing Siskind’s Immigration Bulletin, the first electronically distributed law firm newsletter, which still reaches tens of thousands of readers monthly. He is regularly interviewed by outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, the Washington Post, NPR’s All Things Considered, Forbes, and Bloomberg.
Timothy C. D’Arduini

Timothy C. D’Arduini

Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

Timothy (Tim) C. D’Arduini is the Partner-in-Charge of Klasko Immigration Law Partners’ Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s global immigration and mobility, corporate immigration, and worksite compliance teams. A leader of the firm’s worksite compliance practice, Tim advises multinational clients on employment eligibility verification, immigration-related fraud investigations, worksite enforcement actions, and global right-to-work requirements. He is known for a holistic, collaborative, and proactive approach to managing clients’ immigration programs and sponsored populations in the United States and worldwide, tailoring strategies that advance both talent and compliance objectives.

Education & Credentials

Tim earned his B.S. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School, where he served as Senior Managing Editor of the Rutgers University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Recognition & Leadership

Tim is ranked in Chambers USA as an "Up and Coming" attorney and recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. as a "Rising Star." He was tapped to launch and manage Klasko's Washington, D.C. office, anchoring the firm's expansion into the Mid-Atlantic region and strengthening its national and international capabilities. He is also recognized for cultivating diverse, inclusive legal teams, reflecting his conviction that varied backgrounds produce the most creative and multi-dimensional client outcomes.

Professional Involvement

Tim is a frequent speaker and CLE faculty member on worksite compliance, I-9 enforcement, and immigration policy, presenting to national attorney audiences through platforms including myLawCLE. He maintains an extensive network of immigration policymakers and practitioners inside and outside the Beltway, supporting the firm's well-known impact on immigration policy and litigation.

Experience

Tim primarily serves multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies across the financial services, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, health care, insurance, and defense industries, and has overseen a multimillion-dollar U.S. visa transactions portfolio, leading day-to-day relationships with legal, HR, and business leaders that produced considerable portfolio growth. On the compliance side, he develops protocols and policies, oversees privileged internal audits that mitigate employer risk, and defends companies in administrative subpoena matters and worksite enforcement actions — including raids involving potential civil and criminal liability — integrating proactive compliance practices that help clients avoid penalties while maintaining operational integrity. Before joining Klasko, Tim was Global Immigration & Mobility Partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, a Partner at Mayer Brown, and an Associate at Baker McKenzie.
John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

John W. Mazzeo is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice and a former ICE prosecutor recognized as an authority in employment eligibility verification, with a practice centered on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance, worksite enforcement defense, and immigration-related fraud prevention. His career reflects a sustained focus on helping businesses achieve compliance and mitigate risk by pairing deep regulatory expertise with technology-driven verification solutions — a perspective shaped by experience on the government, in-house, and law firm sides of the same issues.

Education & Credentials

John earned his J.D. from Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his B.A. from Ursinus College.

Recognition & Leadership

John was appointed to Law360's 2025 Editorial Advisory Board, representing the immigration topic on the strength of his extensive knowledge of Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification law. In 2024, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee after serving as a Member from 2023 to 2024 — one of only twenty attorneys appointed to the selective committee. During his committee tenure, he authored multiple thought leadership pieces relied on by thousands of attorneys advising companies on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance and was instrumental in responding to proposed regulatory changes.

Professional Involvement

Through the AILA liaison committee, John liaises with representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the DOJ's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer on employment verification, Form I-9 requirements, enforcement efforts, and adjudication issues. He is also an active member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, where he has served as Vice-Chair of the Corporate and Securities Law Network. An accomplished speaker and author, John has presented at national conferences including SHRM, AILA, ASHHRA, and HR Florida; his insights have appeared in publications such as the ACC Docket, HR Florida Newswire, and HR Pulse; and he is frequently quoted by outlets including Bloomberg. He will serve as a panelist at AILA's 2026 Annual Conference, presenting on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance pitfalls and discrimination liability.

Experience

John brings a rare 360-degree perspective to worksite compliance. He began his enforcement career as Assistant Chief Counsel in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at DHS-ICE in Philadelphia, where he reviewed and litigated Form I-9 violations and worksite enforcement investigations across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware, and served on an interagency Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force alongside Homeland Security Investigations, the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, and the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. At ICE, he served as team lead for Form I-9 compliance and document fraud litigation, tried removal cases in Immigration Courts nationwide, and argued multiple cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals. He then moved in-house, serving as Senior Director and Associate General Counsel at Vertical Screen, Inc., where he led the design and implementation of electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions and directed the company's identity verification and fingerprinting businesses. Now at Seyfarth, he counsels employers on employment eligibility verification, ICE audits and Notices of Inspection, and enforcement defense from the firm's nationally recognized Immigration Compliance & Enforcement practice.
Bruce E. Buchanan

Bruce E. Buchanan

Littler Mendelson P.C.

Bruce E. Buchanan is Senior Counsel in Littler’s Nashville office, where he counsels employers on immigration compliance, conducts internal I-9 audits, and represents employers in ICE inspections and audits, Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER)/Department of Justice investigations, E-Verify matters, and employment-based visa work. He also maintains a labor law practice, representing employers before the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division and in collective bargaining. Few practitioners pair this depth in worksite enforcement defense with decades of front-line labor relations experience.

Education & Credentials

Bruce earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1982 and his B.S., magna cum laude, from Florida State University in 1979. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and D.C. Circuits, as well as U.S. District Courts in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Georgia.

Recognition & Leadership

Bruce has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Employment Law – Management (Tennessee) every year from 2016 through 2026. A prolific author in the field, he co-authored the I-9 and E-Verify Handbook (2017 and 2024 editions) with Greg Siskind and served as editor of the Employer Sanctions chapter of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook (2024–2025 edition). He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law for more than ten years.

Professional Involvement

Bruce is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, including its Online Review Course Committee, and formerly served on AILA's Verification & Documentation Liaison Committee. He belongs to the Tennessee Bar Association's Immigration Law and Labor & Employment Law sections and to the Associated General Contractors of America – Middle Tennessee. He is a frequent national speaker on immigration compliance and labor law, with recent engagements including "ICE Encounters: Raids, Audits and Warrants" (Littler Webinar, January 2026) and presentations at AILA Annual Conferences on worksite enforcement, I-9 Notices of Inspection, and anti-discrimination issues in verification, alongside regular programs for the Tennessee Hospital Association, PayrollOrg, and AGC chapters.

Experience

Bruce's practice spans the full arc of employer immigration compliance — from proactive internal audits and E-Verify counseling through ICE Notices of Inspection, IER investigations, and litigating fines before OCAHO. Before concentrating on immigration, he served as a senior trial specialist for the NLRB for 20 years, counseled clients on union-filed representation petitions, represented employers in collective bargaining, and advised on wage and hour and Family and Medical Leave Act matters. He has extensive experience representing companies in manufacturing, restaurants and hospitality, healthcare, education, staffing, construction, and food processing. His recent commentary on ICE's 2026 reclassification of I-9 substantive errors and Ohio's new E-Verify requirements reflects his position at the forefront of today's worksite enforcement developments.
Greg Siskind

Greg Siskind

Siskind Susser, PC

Greg Siskind has represented immigrants and led within the national immigration bar for more than three decades. He co-founded Siskind Susser, PC – Immigration Lawyers in 1994, Visalaw Ventures — the parent company of legal AI software company Visalaw.ai and book publisher Alan House — in 2019, and IMMpact Litigation in 2020. A longtime pioneer at the intersection of law and technology, he launched the world’s first immigration law firm website in 1994, became the first lawyer in the world with a blog in 1998, and in 2016 was among the first lawyers to publish artificial intelligence immigration tools for lawyers and consumers.

Education & Credentials

Greg earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1990, beginning practice at age 22. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1990.

Recognition & Leadership

His honors include the 2024 AILA Technology and Innovation Award, the American Bar Association’s 2022 James E. Keane Award for e-Lawyering, AILA’s 2020 Advocacy Award and 2022 Litigation Award (co-recipient), recognition as a 2023 Who’s Who Legal Global Elite Thought Leader, and a listing among the National Law Journal’s 2023 Immigration Law Trailblazers. Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law has named him among the ten most distinguished immigration lawyers in the world, and Chambers and Partners has listed him among the top 25 immigration lawyers in the US. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Immigration Law, Mid-South Super Lawyers, and is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He was the first immigration lawyer photographed for the cover of the American Bar Association Journal.

Professional Involvement

Greg serves on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a position he has held since 2010, and currently chairs the International Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. He chaired the IMG Taskforce — the physician immigration bar organization — for more than a decade, founded the Tennessee Bar Association’s immigration section, is a past council member of the ABA Law Practice Division and past chair of its Publications Board, and is a member of the Memphis Bar Association. He is also a founder of Visalaw International, the global alliance of immigration lawyers.

Experience

Greg is the author of seven books — including the J-1 Visa Guidebook, published annually by LexisNexis since 1997, The Physician’s Immigration Handbook, The I-9 and E-Verify Handbook, and Immigration for Startups: A Guide for Founders — along with hundreds of articles and book chapters. He has drafted immigration-related legislation and testified as an expert before the US House of Representatives Immigration Subcommittee. In 1994 he began publishing Siskind’s Immigration Bulletin, the first electronically distributed law firm newsletter, which still reaches tens of thousands of readers monthly. He is regularly interviewed by outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, the Washington Post, NPR’s All Things Considered, Forbes, and Bloomberg.

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The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.  

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