Lawyers Offer Advice to Employers: How to Deal with Immigrations Order’s Effects
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27 prohibiting entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The order also suspends entry of all refugees for 120 days and bars Syrian refugees indefinitely, and it caps refugee settlement numbers at 50,000 for the 2017 fiscal year. The order affects doctors, small business owners, real estate owners, and other professionals.
As a result of this signed order, lawyers are advising clients not to take any chances. Carlton Fields’ senior counsel Maria Mejia-Opaciuch, told the Tampa Bay Business Journal that she is reviewing with companies their foreign employees and whether it “makes sense for them to process green card applications faster than they normally do.” Mejia-Opaciuch is advising companies to be “proactive” in looking at their foreign national workforce. And for some of her clients who have employees originally from Canada and Mexico, she shared with the business journal that those clients should “review whether they should get different work visas for those individuals since the president has said he wants to renegotiate the NAFTA treaty.”
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