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<title>Navigating the Immigration Maze: A Practical Guide for HR Professionals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Corporate immigration touches nearly every HR function — from onboarding foreign nationals to managing compliance audits, sponsoring green cards, and navigating a shifting regulatory landscape. Yet for many HR professionals, immigration remains an opaque, acronym-heavy process that is easy to mishandle and costly to get wrong.</p><p>This seminar, hosted by Goel &amp; Anderson, LLC — a boutique employment-based immigration law firm based in Reston, Virginia — offers HR professionals a practical, plain-English framework for understanding the most common nonimmigrant visa categories, employment authorization issues, and green card pathways they are likely to encounter in their workforce. Attendees will leave with actionable knowledge for day-to-day HR decision-making and a clearer sense of when and how to engage immigration counsel.</p><h3>About the Speaker</h3><p><strong>Christian Park — Partner, Goel &amp; Anderson, LLC</strong><br />Christian provides strategic counseling to employers on all aspects of U.S. immigration law, regulation, and policy. Christian partners with clients to develop, design, and implement streamlined immigration programs to meet business and compliance requirements for the recruitment and retention of a foreign national workforce in the United States.</p><p>Christian has served as counsel to a wide variety of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, distinguished universities, and businesses of all sizes. His work has involved clients across business industries, including technology, engineering, consulting, financial services, healthcare, biotech, automotive, and food and beverage.<br />Christian is a frequent speaker on immigration topics, and has provided numerous lectures and presentations to employers, employees, industry groups, and immigration professionals.<br /></p><p>A graduate of Cooper Union and Fordham Law School, he brings both technical precision and practical business judgment to complex immigration matters.</p><p><strong>Disclaimer</strong><br /><em>The content presented at this seminar is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Attendance at this event does not create an attorney-client relationship between any attendee and Goel &amp; Anderson, LLC or any of its attorneys.</em><br /></p><div>&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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