From Overseas to Onshore: Building Your First U.S. Team

Many companies treat U.S. expansion as a real estate and incorporation problem: pick a city, register the entity, open a bank account, post the job. But the harder calls come next. Which city do you actually build around, and what does that signal to the talent you’re trying to hire? Who’s the first U.S. hire? What happens when someone transfers over from headquarters? Those decisions often get made fast, by teams that haven’t had to think about U.S. employment or immigration rules before.

​Join Manifest Law for a live conversation between Chief People Officer Harry Uffindell and Principal Immigration Attorney Nicole Gunara on what it actually takes to build a first U.S. team.

​You’ll learn:

• ​How to choose a U.S. base, and what that decision signals to talent, investors, and customers

• ​How to build an employer brand in the U.S.

• ​What changes about interviewing and evaluating candidates once you’re hiring in the U.S. market

• ​Which relocation options work fastest, and where a status you assumed was safe, like a Green Card, can still create risk

• ​Who should sign off when a U.S. hire, transfer, or promotion turns into an immigration or compliance question