Ian R. Macdonald Co-Chairs the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s International Employment, Immigration & Workforce Strategies group. He focuses his practice on developing, assessing and managing global mobility programs for multinational companies on a range of challenges affecting the movement of people capital domestically and internationally, including secondment agreements, benefits transferability, local host country employment concerns and immigration.
Ian and his team work closely with companies to manage and modify, where needed, corporate immigration programs to maximize efficiency, service and regulatory compliance levels. He is experienced with the full range of business immigration sponsorship categories (visas and permanent residence), anti-discrimination rules to reduce or eliminate risk of employment litigation, employer sanction cases, and I-9 and E-Verify compliance. Ian assists clients with establishing risk-based performance standards (RBPS) and Department of Homeland Security protocol, providing risk assessment assistance to corporations subject to Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) and assisting clients with ITAR/Export Control compliance within the immigration context.
Ian has developed strategic relationships abroad that he utilizes when working with clients to ensure compliance with foreign registration requirements. He is experienced with analyzing complex global mobility opportunities on country-specific matters to facilitate the transfer of personnel. Ian is also experienced in counseling employers on immigration strategy as well as immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions, reduction in workforces, and furloughs.
Prior to joining the firm, Ian worked for the United Nations, various non-governmental think tanks and corporate law firms in London, Washington, D.C., New York and Atlanta.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Ian R. Macdonald
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- Canadian Government’s New Work Permit for Foreign Workers with H-1B Visas in the United States Meets Announced Target in 48 Hours - (Posted On Monday, July 24, 2023)
- New Parole Initiative for Nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras Reflects Biden Administration’s Use of Executive Actions to Implement Immigration Policy - (Posted On Wednesday, July 19, 2023)
- USCIS Introduces New Guidance for EADs Based on Compelling Circumstances - (Posted On Monday, July 17, 2023)
- The United States Will Now Require Visa Applicants to Provide Social Media Information - (Posted On Tuesday, June 04, 2019)
- Supreme Court Issues Order Allowing Full Implementation of Proclamation - (Posted On Wednesday, December 06, 2017)
- USCIS to Resume H-1B Premium Processing for Petitions Filed under FY2018 Cap - (Posted On Wednesday, September 20, 2017)
- New DOS Rule Regarding Misrepresentation – An End to the 30/60 Day Rule - (Posted On Monday, September 18, 2017)
- Denial of Advance Parole Applications Due to International Travel Adversely Impacts U.S. Companies - (Posted On Friday, September 01, 2017)
- USCIS Confirms all 2018 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions Returned - (Posted On Wednesday, July 19, 2017)