International Scholar Services:
Training and Workshops for Department Facilitators

Intended for: Department administrators and representatives working with international employees who will be sponsored for H-1B status.

Course description: This course focuses on the appropriate uses of the H-1B visa classification for sponsoring international employees at UC San Diego. You will learn about eligibility for H-1B status, immigration regulations concerning this visa category, and department responsibilities for employing individuals in H-1B status. You will also learn about how to complete H-1B requests through iServices but please note there is a separate training on accessing and using iServices.

Enroll via UC Learning by searching by the workshop name, keyword "visa"

Intended for: Department administrators and representatives working with paid or unpaid international scholars coming to UC San Diego for varying amount of time and for whom the J or H classifications may not be appropriate.

Course description: This course reviews less common visa classifications that can be useful in academic settings. You will learn the appropriate procedures for inviting visitors in less commonly used academic visa classifications, as well as the limitations of these classifications. Information about TN, B-1, WB, F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT),  J-1 Academic Training, and O-1, plus campus resources and case studies. Questions and discussion about other classifications are welcome.

Intended for: Department administrators and representatives working with international faculty members who will be sponsored by UC San Diego for Permanent Residency and scholars who request department sponsorship for Permanent Residency.

Course description: This course focuses on the basic requirements and processes for sponsoring an international faculty member and scholars for Permanent Residency.  You will learn the basic U.S. immigration and labor requirements for employment based permanent residency sponsorship via the Labor Certification, Outstanding Professor/Researcher, and National Interest Waiver pathways, as well as understand how to read the Visa Bulletin. You will learn the specific steps involved in sponsoring a faculty member for whom a national recruitment was conducted for Permanent Residency through the Labor Certification process, as well as the steps to initiate sponsorship through the Outstanding Professor/Researcher, National Interest Waiver permanent residence pathways and the Adjustment of Status petition.

• Hiring International Faculty who will be sponsored for Permanent Residency and Labor Certification
• Sponsoring scholars for Permanent Residency via the Labor Certification, Outstanding Professor/Researcher, and National Interest Waiver pathways.

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Intended for:  Departmental administrators who have responsibility for completing the I-9 process, or anyone who wants to learn more about employment authorization and the I-9 process for typical nonimmigrant classifications seen in academic settings.

Course description: This course focuses on Form I-9 completion for International Hires. Form I-9 completion is a critical step in the onboarding of new employees at UC San Diego; failure to follow federal I-9 procedures can put our institution at risk of non-compliance and penalties. The I-9 process is complicated, however, particularly when reviewing the documentation of non-U.S. workers in a variety of statuses sponsored at UC San Diego, such as H-1B, J-1, F-1, and TN, as all of these classifications have dramatically different paperwork; paperwork can even vary within a nonimmigrant classification, such as a J-1 scholar vs. a J-1 student. This class is unique in that it focuses on actual paperwork that international employees will provide as evidence of their employment authorization; it examines this paperwork in light of the instructions provided by our federal government in their “Employer Handbook M-274” and the Form I-9 instructions, for both initial hires and reverifications, as well as instructions for use of receipt notices.

• Review of Authoritative Sources for I-9 completion
• Examination of various I-9 employment authorization documents presented by H-1B and TN employees, J-1 students and scholars, F-1 students, and EAD card holders and how the USCIS “Employer’s Handbook M-274” discusses completion of the initial I-9 with this documentation
• Examination of various documents for the I-9 reverification process for international employees, including which receipt notices are acceptable
• Interactive examples through the introduction of case scenarios, which will require completion of the I-9 process done through work in small group formats

Intended for: Department administrators and representatives working with international faculty members who will be sponsored by UC San Diego for Permanent Residency

Course description: ISEO is partnering with OARS for a joint training on international academic recruitment.

This training will educate departments on immigration laws for hiring faculty through a national recruitment effort, demonstrate the impact of department hiring practices on visa and permanent residency processes, and provide best practices departments need to follow for compliance.

For additional questions about this training, please contact ifsopr@ucsd.edu.