If you manage immigration cases for your company, you’ve probably seen the headlines about the Hyundai-LG battery plant raid in Georgia—where 500 workers were detained. For many HR and Legal Ops teams, it raised the same question: Could this happen to us? While most companies won’t find themselves in a DHS enforcement raid, the incident [...]

When a European tech company rushed to establish its first U.S. office, immigration paperwork was delegated to an outsourced provider. On paper, everything looked fine—until the consulate flagged that the executives listed didn’t meet the “managerial capacity” requirement.  The launch was delayed by months, critical contracts were lost, and HR was left explaining to leadership [...]

It happens more often than you think. An HR leader spends months securing an approved petition for a critical employee. The trip home for visa stamping seems routine—until the consular officer says “denied” in under two minutes. No papers reviewed. No second chance. This is the reality of high-volume consular interviews where decisions are made [...]