Last week, Greenberg Traurig Immigration attorneys Ian Macdonald, Scott Decker and Kristen Burke hosted the immigration compliance webinar, “Everything You Want to Know About Immigration Compliance and Enforcement but Dare Not Ask!” Macdonald, Decker and Burke addressed how U.S. employers with a global workforce are faced with navigating the daunting maze of U.S. immigration compliance regulations – from the proper use of E-Verify and compliance I-9 records, to heightened enforcement and site visits from the Department of Homeland Security. It is projected there will be a sharp increase in site visits in 2015 with an eye towards H-1B as well as L-1 compliance. This webinar featured Greenberg Traurig Business Immigration & Compliance attorneys who provided insight and best practices on the most vital immigration issues facing employers today. The webinar recording is now available.

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Ian R. Macdonald Co-Chairs the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s International Employment, Immigration & Workforce Strategies group. He focuses his practice on developing, assessing and managing global mobility programs for multinational companies on a range of challenges affecting the movement of people capital

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Ian R. Macdonald Co-Chairs the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s International Employment, Immigration & Workforce Strategies group. He focuses his practice on developing, assessing and managing global mobility programs for multinational companies on a range of challenges affecting the movement of people capital domestically and internationally, including secondment agreements, benefits transferability, local host country employment concerns and immigration.

Ian and his team work closely with companies to manage and modify, where needed, corporate immigration programs to maximize efficiency, service and regulatory compliance levels. He is experienced with the full range of business immigration sponsorship categories (visas and permanent residence), anti-discrimination rules to reduce or eliminate risk of employment litigation, employer sanction cases, and I-9 and E-Verify compliance. Ian assists clients with establishing risk-based performance standards (RBPS) and Department of Homeland Security protocol, providing risk assessment assistance to corporations subject to Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) and assisting clients with ITAR/Export Control compliance within the immigration context.

Ian has developed strategic relationships abroad that he utilizes when working with clients to ensure compliance with foreign registration requirements. He is experienced with analyzing complex global mobility opportunities on country-specific matters to facilitate the transfer of personnel. Ian is also experienced in counseling employers on immigration strategy as well as immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions, reduction in workforces, and furloughs.

Prior to joining the firm, Ian worked for the United Nations, various non-governmental think tanks and corporate law firms in London, Washington, D.C., New York and Atlanta.

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