Sean Olender earned his law degree from the University of San Diego and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Sean has exclusively practiced immigration law for ten years.  He regularly publishes articles, contributes to online magazines focusing on business immigration, speaks on immigration law, and organizes immigration seminars for client companies, pro bono workshops, and Continuing Legal Education.

Sean has negotiated deals and designed administrative immigration systems for clients in cities as diverse as Zurich, New Delhi and Tokyo.  His experience includes all aspects of quickly and reliably opening a US subsidiary for offshore companies and importing executive and managerial employees to the United States within forty-five days of the initial order.

Sean has served as Chair of the Immigration Committee and Barrister’s Club Immigration Committee at the San Francisco Bar Association in 2001, has served as a past Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee

for NCHRA, and as a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Process is the key to our results.  Sean personally designed and flowcharted all standard workflow processes, document storage and backup systems, database and calendar systems, client data acquisition software, and communications systems.

Past Seminars

Business Immigration and Compensation Issues, July 23 and 27, 1999 – Hilton Hotel, Sunnyvale and Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco

Hiring Foreign Professionals: Tips and Tricks, June 21 and July 11, 2000 – Sheraton Hotel, Concord and Hyatt Rickys, Palo Alto

21^st Century Work Issues: 2000 Legislative Update, August 15 and 22, 2000 – Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco and Hilton Hotel, Sunnyvale

The New H-1B Law: Getting the Most from the New Law, November 9 and 14, 2000 – Hilton Hotel, Sunnyvale and Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco

2001 Human Resources Odyssey Legislative Update February 8 and 13 2001 – Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara and Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco

Hiring Foreign Workers in a New World, August 23, 2001 - Hyatt San Jose and Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco

2002 Human Resources Odyssey Legislative Update January 1, 2002 and February 5, 2002 - Marriott San Ramon and the NCHRA San Francisco Training Center

2003 Human Resources Odyssey Legislative Update February 11 and 26, 2003 – Hyatt San Jose and Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco

Big Changes for Immigration Law: The End of INS and the Beginning of New Rules for Employment-Based Greencards, August 8 and 20, 2003 at Marriott San Ramon and the NCHRA San Francisco Training Center

Immigration Law Update: Big Changes and New Rules for Employment-Based Visas and Green Cards,
August 8 and 20, 2003 at Marriott San Ramon and the NCHRA San Francisco Training Center

US Immigration and Nurses: From H-1B to Greencard, a Special Training given at Apollo Cardiac Hospital, New Delhi, India November 10 through 12, 2003

Managing HR in the Healthcare Sector, June 17, 2004 – Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco

New PERM Rules Effective March 2005: The Biggest Change to the Green Card Process in Ten Years, Radisson Hotel, Dublin, NCHRA Training Center, San Francisco May 5 and 12, 2005