Immigration Specialist , Immigration
Amazon
Arlington, VA
Information Technology, Human Resources
Description
At Amazon, we are relentlessly focused on delighting our customers and fostering a culture of innovation. Our Immigration team is at the forefront of this mission, ensuring a seamless and compliant immigration, relocation, and tax experience for our global workforce and stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
The Immigration Specialist, U.S. Compliance is responsible for the identification and mitigation of regulatory risk within the U.S. immigration program and for ensuring the program’s risk framework is continually refreshed. The role will partner with internal Legal and external counsel to keep informed of new executive orders, proclamations, and regulatory changes as well as evolving adjudication standards to ensure programmatic and employee impact is properly quantified. The individual will also execute and assess efficacy of controls to identify areas for improvement and incorporate findings back into the risk framework.
The Immigration Specialist role is responsible for ensuring Amazon timely and successfully responds to Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) site visits as well as for audits and requests related to Department of Labor mandated Public Access Files (PAFs) or Labor Certification Audit Files. This will require the individual to engage with leadership of corporate office front desk staff, four separate security organizations, as well as a talent acquisition team to ensure continual response training and compliant document retention practices are followed. The Immigration Specialist will also own all documentation, protocols, and SOPs related to government visits and audits, including continuous improvement of these areas. This role will lead cross functional teams in conducing mock audits and quality assurance audits to ensure that all document retention obligations are met.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 64,300.00 - 112,500.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 80,400.00 - 112,500.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A3166059
At Amazon, we are relentlessly focused on delighting our customers and fostering a culture of innovation. Our Immigration team is at the forefront of this mission, ensuring a seamless and compliant immigration, relocation, and tax experience for our global workforce and stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
- Risk Assessment. The role is responsible for documenting risk associated with U.S. immigration. This includes:
- Engage with internal Legal and external counsel to review U.S. risks and update the risk framework.
- Execute and assess control efficacy and continually feed results into risk framework.
- Own and document U.S. compliance controls.
- Engage internal Legal and internal US subject matter experts to prioritize risks for control development.
- Identify, develop, and continually improve key performance indicators that quantify adherence against immigration obligations.
- Run monthly cross-functional meetings to inform leadership of changes in U.S. risks and drive to completion projects to reduce risk.
- Audit response:
- Maintain documents including corporate front desk protocols and PAF retrieval SOPs.
- Conduct and maintain training for corporate front desk staff nationally.
- Engage with four separate security organizations to implement and maintain response protocols.
- Lead responder to FDNS visits and Interested Party PAF requests.
- Conduct audits to assess Public Access Files (PAF) and PERM Audit File completeness.
The Immigration Specialist, U.S. Compliance is responsible for the identification and mitigation of regulatory risk within the U.S. immigration program and for ensuring the program’s risk framework is continually refreshed. The role will partner with internal Legal and external counsel to keep informed of new executive orders, proclamations, and regulatory changes as well as evolving adjudication standards to ensure programmatic and employee impact is properly quantified. The individual will also execute and assess efficacy of controls to identify areas for improvement and incorporate findings back into the risk framework.
The Immigration Specialist role is responsible for ensuring Amazon timely and successfully responds to Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) site visits as well as for audits and requests related to Department of Labor mandated Public Access Files (PAFs) or Labor Certification Audit Files. This will require the individual to engage with leadership of corporate office front desk staff, four separate security organizations, as well as a talent acquisition team to ensure continual response training and compliant document retention practices are followed. The Immigration Specialist will also own all documentation, protocols, and SOPs related to government visits and audits, including continuous improvement of these areas. This role will lead cross functional teams in conducing mock audits and quality assurance audits to ensure that all document retention obligations are met.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience defining and executing program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 3+ years of experience in immigration, legal, compliance, or risk management roles
- Experience developing policies and supporting documentation
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 64,300.00 - 112,500.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 80,400.00 - 112,500.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A3166059
About the company
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Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one.
Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world.
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.
You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.