Neura Da ROSA

• Accountable for company Global Expatriate Management Program: organizing, implementing, and executing international mobility for short and long terms international assignments.
• Along with outside immigration legal providers based on each country, assess visa category, coordinate, initiate, and manage all immigration cases to ensure compliance, optimal processing timelines and maximum efficiency.
• Create a channel of communication to provide accurate and useful information to employees, Talent Acquisition, HRBP, managers, project leads, executives, or any stakeholders regarding company’s employment-based and/or business visas categories.
• Substantiate individual immigration case strategies resulting in outstanding visas approvals, longer visa validity and reduction of immigration legal and filing costs.
• Advise stakeholders on mobility and relocation policies and practices, immigration costs and regulations.
• Serves as partner and point of contact with legal counsel, government agencies and third-party vendors providing immigration, relocation, and mobility support.
• Stays current with laws, regulations and procedures governing international mobility and immigration.
• Maintained up-to-date records of all international assignments including documents required by government agencies or other entities involved in the process.
• Process PERM cases and anticipate stakeholders how prevailing wages and actual wages may impact company salary market and equity.
• Along with business leadership, anticipate and prepare potential work visas based on domestic and international MSA and SOW agreements that will require immediate placement.
• Monthly review and approve all immigration related invoices and provide immigration costs projections.
• Partnership with leadership to identify and assess visas in cases of Merger & Acquisition agreements.
• Create immigration internal best practices and policies to align with employees and employer substantial needs.
• Currently reporting to Sr. Director, Global HRBP and previously to VP, HR Operations.

As Business Immigration Compliance

• Managed and coordinated business immigration cases with prospective employees, International Expertise Program (“IEP”) and outside legal service provider to ensure compliance, optimal processing timelines e maximum efficiency.
• Worked primarily on H-1B Transfers, F-1 (CPT/OPT/STEM Status), J-1, TN Status, E-3, L-1 Visa Categories and Perm Application for Green Card Process;
• Reviewed documents and checked legitimacy, ensured compliance on corporate immigration policy.
• Accountable to assist employees before embassies and consulates to obtain foreign visas.
• In a joint effort with IEP, completed I-983 Forms for Training Plan and DS-7002 Training/Internship Placement Plan; communication with schools either to confirm employees (students) information or employment termination.
• Created and maintained Public Access File (“PAF”) for H-1B Visas and Perm Applications; handled internal immigration audits for worksite and wages in order to maintain high-level of compliance as required by DOL/USCIS.
• Interacted with Human Resources to review and identify employment-based work authorizations for I-9 and e-Verify and resolved immigration related issues as they arose.
• Monitored progress for all immigration cases in conjunction with outside legal service provider and corporate immigration database system.
• Provided monthly KPI immigration reports;
• Responsible for managing the invoicing process for immigration filing, legal and related services (credential evaluation and advertisement) and for organizing company global immigration meetings and trainings with outside legal service provider.
• Reported to VP and General Counsel.

As Contract Specialist:

• Processed requests to on-board 3rd Party Vendors assuring that all strict and rigorous process of qualification are met and in compliance with the terms of the company and end-client agreements;
• Identified work authorization from 3rd Party Vendors’ employees to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
• Reviewed and negotiated clauses, applied the correspondent rules and regulations while following the Client’s flow down terms.
• Followed the process, closed out the deal and set the 3rd Party Vendor at Accounts Payable Dept.; updated the 3rd Party Vendors’ Database, accordingly.
• Vetting independent consultants to ensure that there are no misclassification of “Employees” and “Independent Consultants”.