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With the COVID-19 pandemic easing, Baker Donelson's Business Immigration Team is seeing an increase in demand for U.S. employer-based employment visas. However, even as we have been.
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In early 2021, pursuant to INA § 212(f) the President of the United States issued a proclamation continuing the suspension of entry of certain travelers located abroad in an effort to control the spread of COVID (the “novel coronavirus” or “COVID-19”). We have previously discussed COVID-related travel and visa issuance restrictions issued in 2020 here (IV ban) and here (NIV ban). The landscape of restrictions has changed dramatically over the last 16 months. At this time, there are multiple COVID-related geographic entry bans in effect. While there are exceptions to those bans, their beneficial effect is limited by the capacity of the US Department of State (“DOS”) to provide visa services in these uncertain times. We hope to see forward movement in these areas as the pandemic is brought under control.
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Introduction
The COVID-19 global pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for U.S. employers over the past 12+ months. Among other things, pandemic-containment policies and best practices limited business and personal travel. As we enter summer 2021, the sun seems brighter as we near the end of the tunnel. But as the world re-opens and as more Americans become vaccinated, U.S. employers should give due care to several obvious and not-so-obvious areas:
(1) how to handle travel-quarantines, masks, and vaccines as applied to employees;
(2) how to handle employees traveling internationally, including the ongoing challenges to obtain visas; and
(3) maintaining employer data security and balancing privacy in a new era of remote work.
With immigration rules constantly changing with the pandemic situation, it is difficult to keep up to date with it all. For our NRI readers, we have started an immigration helpdesk. Write to us at nri.economictimes@gmail.com and our team of experts will address the most pressing issues.