Global Immigration and Mobility Services

Our global client care model includes timely alerts on major changes in global mobility, immigration law and practice; a quarterly newsletter outlining global developments; and regular seminars and workshops on a broad range of issues:

• Workplace compliance, including counseling, trainings, audits and litigation defense related to worksite enforcement and related employer initiatives
• Advocacy on legislative reforms and regulatory changes, and agency practices around the world
• Design and implementation of programs to sponsor foreign nationals for temporary and permanent work and residence authorization, accept immigrant investors, and schools and training programs to accept foreign students
• Coordination among members of our global team to obtain visas, residence and work permits from consular offices or to execute transfers to the countries where you do business
• Transfers of staff to existing and new multinational operations, including employees with specialist and technical skills, executives and managers, and new employees hired from overseas
• Large-scale transfers, including managing the immigration consequences of reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, reductions in force, redundancies and related restructuring
• Transfer-related immigration matters, including permanent residence, citizenship and relocation of spouses and other dependents
• Case management, including maintaining employee records for visa renewals, providing status reports, and planning and coordinating global immigration requirements
• Employment, employee benefits and tax advice in relation to transferring staff, including structuring and auditing the employment relationship to ensure compliance with legal and tax obligations and to avoid obligations to prevent unauthorized employment
• Ancillary transfer issues, working with a range of professionals in relation to shipping personal belongings and customs and excise duties
• Establishment of new business operations abroad, including transferring senior personnel to establish operations, and related corporate and securities and taxation advice

  Further information

• Baker McKenzie's Global Immigration & Mobility Practice: Learn more about our market-leading Immigration and Mobility Practice and review the latest resources for global mobility professionals to mobilize talent.
• The Global Employer: Global Immigration and Mobility Quarterly Update is a quarterly publication focused on the latest legal updates affecting global employee mobility.
• The Accidental Expat: The Mobile Modern Workforce offers best practices for managing frequent cross-border travelers in your international organization.
• The Global Employer: Focus on Global Immigration & Mobility provides employment-based immigration requirements for 28 countries.
• The Global Employer: Focus on US Immigration & Mobility is a desk-side guide of employer obligations related to moving foreign nationals under US immigration and employment law.
• Global Mobility Video Series offers easy-to-digest videos discussing key issues relevant to managing a global workforce.
• Your Roadmap to a Flexible Future provides practical legal guidance for driving a hybrid remote workforce.