11th Biennial IBA Global Immigration Conference
4 Dec - 6 Dec 2024
Wren Room
Session information
Description
The panel will look at the following questions
- Has your country’s employment based visa policy become more open or more restrictive in the last 1-2 years?
- Have issues such as refugees and irregular migration made policy making on regular migration for skilled workers more complex?
- Have any categories of work visas been restricted?
- Are there any new categories?
- Are the numbers of visas for skilled workers up or down
- Are you seeing more short term business travel rather than longer postings?
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Alex Stojicevic | MKS Lawyers, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Newsletter Officer, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee |
Speakers
| Oluwapamilerin Akabunwa | Famsville Solicitors , Lagos, Nigeria; Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee |
| Andreea Haulbert | Karl Waheed Avocats, Paris, France |
| Dieter Kohlfürst | Kohlfürst Legal, Miesbach, Germany |
| Anne O'Donoghue | Immigration Solutions Lawyers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion - Global Employment Institute (GEI) |
| Ariel Orrego Villacorta | AOV ABOGADOS, Lima, Peru; Secretary, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee |
| Chetal Patel | Bates Wells, London, England |
| Mahrukh Umrigar | Consortia Legal, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |