Klasko Immigration Law Partners is pleased to announce that partner Elise A. Fialkowski, Esq. recently participated on the panel entitled, “Drafting the ETA 9089 and BALCA – What Will Work – What does not” at the 2016 Advanced Corporate Immigration Conference. The day-long conference, presented by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, featured leading immigration attorneys and experts from across the United States.The panel covered key issues and trends with the PERM Labor Certification process, the key process for most employment based permanent residence/green card applications. Elise discussed hot topics and trends both in adjudication of the PERM applications by the Department of Labor and in recent case decisions by the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) with co-panelists including Harry Sheinfeld from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Administrative Law Judges in Washington, DC.

Elise Fialkowski is a partner of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP. She has practiced immigration law for over twenty years and handles all aspects of employment based immigration. Her clients run the gamut from multinational corporations and their employees to universities and private individuals. In addition to employment-based immigration work, Ms. Fialkowski has particular experience in worksite enforcement and leads the worksite compliance group at the firm. She regularly counsels clients regarding I-9 compliance, E-Verify and H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) compliance. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Fialkowski's practice also included advising employers in traditional employment and labor law matters, including litigation as well as advice regarding proactive action to avoid and minimize claims. With her immigration clients, she has provided counseling, training and policy development services to employers in a diversity of industries including, for example, pharmaceutical, university, food and beverage, manufacturing, healthcare and continuing care retirement communities. Ms. Fialkowski has long been active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and currently serves as the Co-Chair of AILA’s Global Migration Section Conference Committee and on the USCIS Philadelphia Liaison Committee. She has served on the Executive Committee of AILA’s Philadelphia Chapter and on many other committees at the local and national level, including the E-Verify Liaison Committee. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. 1987), Ms. Fialkowski received her law degree from the Villanova University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1991).

Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP has offices in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago and provides top-tier legal services to individuals, multinational corporations, small companies, universities and hospitals. The firm has been selected as one of the top 5 business immigration law firms in the United States by the prestigious Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers and Partners) for the past ten years. The firm serves as the North American Regional Representative of the Investment Migration Council, the worldwide association for Investor Immigration and Citizenship-by-Investment. For more information, please see www.klaskolaw.com.