2025 Webinar: Business Migration in Uncertain Times: Navigating Challenges to Bring International Talen Across Borders
November 4 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
The Immigration Practice Group is hosting a complimentary webinar on November 4, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time titled, “Business Migration in Uncertain Times: Navigating Challenges to Bring International Talent Across Borders” CLE credit can be acquired in most states for this webinar.
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About the Webinar:
This webinar brings together leading practitioners from the US, UK, and Israel to explore the challenges and opportunities of business migration in uncertain times. Our panel will discuss key visa and compliance issues that impact companies moving talent across borders, as well as unique considerations such as dual citizenship and pathways to Israeli nationality. Attendees will gain practical insights from attorneys in each country, followed by an engaging conversation on the most pressing questions facing global businesses today.
Panelists:
CHARLES BAESLER (MODERATOR) is with Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, the ALFA international member firm in Kentucky. He serves as Chair of the Immigration Practice and represents clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. consulates overseas, with the aim of obtaining employment authorization for engineers, scientists, professors, doctors, business managers, and equine workers. Charles also represents entities based outside of the United States that seek investor visa status to facilitate the transfer of personnel to U.S. markets and bring additional capital to these regions. He routinely advises employers on compliance with federal laws on employment verification. A member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and past chair of the Mid-South Chapter, Charles has been called on to testify before legislative committees on proposed laws and statutes. He has also offered his expertise on numerous media programs.
DAN GROSS is a founding and managing partner at Dardik, Gross & Co., the Israeli member of ALFA International. For over 25 years, Dan has headed the firm’s International, Corporate, and Immigration departments. As part of the firm’s pro bono activity, he also serves as Co-Chair of the Israeli Bar Association’s Committee on Foreign Workers. In this capacity, Dan advises various organizations and participates in parliamentary sessions at the Israeli Knesset, contributing to the development of regulations and legislation concerning foreign workers and immigration. The service that Dardik, Gross & Co. provides is characterized, inter alia, by handling the obtaining of B-1 type work permits for experts and obtaining B-2 type residence permits for the experts’ families, planning the arrival of the experts to Israel.
MARK RHOADS is a Director in the Immigration Practice Group of McCandlish Holton, ALFA International’s member firm in Richmond, Virginia. With over 25 years of experience in immigration law, his practice focuses on temporary work visas and permanent resident “green cards” for international managers and executives; international investors opening businesses in the US; university researchers and professors; high-tech personnel; professional athletes and entertainers, and professionals in accounting, engineering, education and many other fields. Mark speaks regularly to university audiences, business groups and human resource professionals on immigration topics. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America in Immigration law.
KELVIN TANNER is a Partner in the UK immigration team at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP in London. He is a specialist in both corporate and private client immigration. His corporate clients range from multinational companies through to SMEs and start-ups and he assists them on matters related to their immigration strategy, compliance and the relocation of their staff into the UK. Kelvin assists private clients on the full range of UK immigration applications, with a particular specialism working on the immigration matters of high-net-worth individuals seeking an alternative residence or citizenship. Kelvin regularly assists clients on the immigration aspects of UK inward investment matters, working with companies and entrepreneurs. He also regularly works on complex immigration matters and has had a number of notable successes in persuading the Home Office to exercise their discretion to approve applications outside of the Immigration Rules. Where necessary, Kelvin liaises with a range of Government contacts on the complexities and processing of his applications.