Immigration Compliance Specialist (Hybrid)

Position Summary

The Immigration Compliance Specialist provides high level administrative and operational leadership for front line immigration compliance within OISS for both students and scholars. The role designs and optimizes workflows to ensure accurate, efficient and compliant immigration processing across university systems; oversees collection, management and integrity of key immigration and admissions data; helps deliver general tax education for the foreign national population; collaborates with HR and Payroll on foreign national compliance; and administers data governance and quality assurance for the Foreign National Information System (FNIS).

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage comprehensive immigration compliance activities by designing, implementing and continuously refining policies, procedures and training programs aligned with federal immigration regulations.
• Conduct compliance audits and maintain checklists. Support and deliver targeted training on FNIS data entry, international admissions, and document requests for J-1, H-1B, TN and other visa categories.
• Serve as liaison with WU-IT on development, implementation and maintenance of projects pertaining to the departmental information systems.
• Serve as Designated School Official (DSO) and Alternate Responsible Officer (ARO) in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).
• Design, implement and support business processes for efficient processing and compliance of immigration and foreign national payroll processing.
• Recruit, train, and supervise office support staff involved in front line operations.