Global Migration
Local Knowledge, Global Execution
In today's economy, the global movement of employees is essential. Getting the right people to the right places at the right time, with proper support, is critical to the success of far-flung businesses.
But there often is a gap between business necessity and practical reality when it comes to moving executives to new countries. You have to anticipate and deal effectively with a host of interconnected legal issues and individual concerns. Immigration and visa requirements. Tax implications. Jurisdictional concerns. We offer comprehensive legal advice on executive transfers — delivered locally around the world.
At Baker & McKenzie, we can help you plan and implement global transfers and provide on-site coverage to your company and employees in most major business communities around the globe. Our network of immigration lawyers assist both pre- and post-transfer to ensure that employment contracts are complete and enforceable, that employee benefits meet needs and relevant legal requirements, and that tax planning is sound and defensible.
How We Can Help
- Short-term work assignments and business visitors
- Transfer of staff to existing operations, including employees with specialist and technical skills, executives and managers and new employees hired from overseas
- Short-term specialist visas for training assignments, work experience and working holidays, entertainment, sporting and media events
- Business migration and inward investment
- Large-scale transfers, including transfers relating to "major change" projects
- Coordination among members of our global team to obtain foreign visas from consular offices or to execute transfers to several different jurisdictions
- Employment, employee benefits and taxation advice, in relation to transfer of staff and auditing to ensure compliance with employers' obligations to prevent unauthorized employment
- Transfer-related immigration matters, including permanent residence, citizenship and relocation of spouses and other dependents
- Establishment of new business operations abroad, including the transfer of senior personnel to establish operations and related corporate and securities and taxation advice
- Ancillary transfer issues, working with a range of professionals in relation to shipping of personal belongings and customs and excise duties
- File management, maintaining employee records for visa renewals, provision of status reports and planning and coordination of global immigration requirements
- Client care, including electronic bulletins on major changes in local immigration law and practice, a quarterly newsletter outlining global developments and regular seminars and workshops for clients on a broad range of issues
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