Role: Immigration Specialist
Location: San Jose, CA (100%Onsite – M-F)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Client: Samsung Semiconductor/SSI
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee all aspects of the visa and immigration services, ensuring that the process runs smoothly
- Provide a high quality and consistent experience to employees, new-hires, and managers
- Consult with candidates at the pre-offer stage and strategize on visa strategy
- Analyze monthly visa extension and green card review lists
- Initiate visa/green card applications for candidates and new hires
- Support the export control process
- Responsible for timely invoice submission; reconciliation of vendor invoice discrepancies and issue resolution
- Handle daily immigration operations, remaining up to date with any changes to legislation
- Ensure that the information provided by the client is accurate and correct, preparing and checking all legal documents
- Consult with legal counsel on complex immigration issues
- Manage, maintain and track visa and green card applications
- Other ad hoc duties as required
Desired Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, HR or related field
- 8 years’ working experience within corporate immigration. Large multinational organization experience preferred
- Ability to articulate immigration matters to stakeholders
- Deep understanding of non-immigrant visa classifications, including H-1B, F-1, TN, L-1, O-1 and E-3
- Strong knowledge of immigrant visa process, including PERM, I-140 and AOS
- Excellent Communication skills and ability to handle sensitive confidential matters
- Detail oriented, extremely organized, and have the ability to manage multiple assignments successfully in a fast paced and changing environment
- Excellent customer service approach to handle daily interactions
- Prior experience working in a high tech environment strongly preferred
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour
Education:
Experience:
- corporate immigration: 8 years (Required)
- Large multinational organization : 8 years (Required)
- non-immigrant visa - H-1B, F-1, TN, L-1, O-1, E-3 : 8 years (Required)
- immigrant visa process - PERM, I-140 and AOS : 8 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
