The International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) is welcoming an immigration law attorney to campus to do a presentation on H-1B Visa: “Temporary Workers in the U.S.: The Road to H-1B Status.”

Megan A. Lantz of Barten Law P.C. Immigration Lawyers will start the presentation at 6 p.m. on Feb. 22 in Room 2055 in Hoover Hall.

H-1B is a temporary visa type that allows employers to petition for highly educated non-American citizens to work in their fields. Applicants are required to have at least a bachelor’s degree.

The H-1B visa has a “cap” of 65,000 visas per year. The first 20,000 applications filed for those with a master’s degree or higher are exempt from the cap, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The presentation will focus on the “cap” related H-1B petitions, looking at the foundation for this visa classification in the law, what changes may occur to these laws, eligibility for the H-1B visa and the process of filing an H-1B petition, according to ISSO’s website.

The question and answer time after the presentation will be 30 minutes. All the questions are already collected as part of the registration process prior to the presentation. Therefore, the speaker will not address case-specific questions either during or after the presentation.

Lantz graduated from Drake University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. She has been working in the immigration law field for 14 years.

In her biography on immigrationiowa.com says Lantz is serving as chapter secretary on the Executive Committee of the Iowa/Nebraska Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

She joined the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2011. She is also an American Immigration Lawyers Association mentor nationwide in the areas of T & U visas, as well as Violence Against Women Act petitions.

She has also trained Iowa law enforcement on U visa petitions at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy at Camp Dodge.

Lantz has given multiple presentations on immigration law related topic. She presented “Immigration and Impact on Juveniles” at new juvenile court officer school in 2013, “Immigration Remedies for Domestic Violence Victims” at Latino support group in 2012 and “Legal and Social Issues Facing Juvenile Immigrants” at juvenile court officer training in 2012, etc.