{"id":293882,"date":"2019-02-15T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=293882"},"modified":"2019-02-15T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:00:42","slug":"updates-on-immigration-laws-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/updates-on-immigration-laws-regs\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates on immigration laws, regs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The February general membership meeting of the Society for Human Resource Management-NMI Chapter will address updates on federal immigration laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Xu, a lawyer, will discuss updates and changes to immigration laws and regulations that affect CNMI businesses and employers, and what businesses and employers might want to do in order to better prepare for these changes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Xu will also discuss other employment-based visas and options that employers may consider besides the H2-B, CW, and EAD (humanitarian parole).<\/p>\n<p>Xu is a partner in the law firm of Baumann, Kondas &amp; Xu, LLC.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>He became a partner in 2010 after working as an associate with L.A. Baumann &amp; Associates for five years.\u00a0Xu specializes in business visas and family immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The SHRM-NMI Chapter invites its members, associated HR and management staff, and interested members of the public to attend its meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at Giovanni\u2019s in the Hyatt Regency Saipan beginning at 11:30am.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting is open to the public and will provide valuable information for employers, managers, and HR professionals and staff.  <\/p>\n<p>The presentation includes the Giovanni\u2019s lunch buffet at the cost of $20 for SHRM members and $30 for non-members.\u00a0Seats are limited, so reserve your seat by contacting\u00a0Penny Jones\u00a0by email at\u00a0penelope.jones@hyatt.com or Denise Montenegro at\u00a0denise.montenegro@hyatt.com or by telephone at 323-5867\/68.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SHRM is the world\u2019s largest association devoted to human resource management. The NMI Chapter is affiliated with the national organization.\u00a0 For more information about the NMI Chapter, visit their website at\u00a0http:\/\/nmichapter.shrm.org. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February general membership meeting of the Society for Human Resource Management-NMI Chapter will address&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}