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Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 South West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Fragomen is proud to be a Strategic Partner of Worldwide ERC® Global '25, taking place at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City from October 28–31, 2025.
Be sure to visit us at booth #507 in the Expo Hall! Connect with our immigration professionals, enjoy exciting giveaways, and enter for a chance to win a special prize.
About the Event
Worldwide ERC® Global '25 is the premier gathering for global mobility and talent management professionals. This event brings together industry leaders for forward-thinking conversations around relocation, immigration policy, tax compliance, technology trends, and other critical global workforce issues. Fragomen is proud to be a Strategic Partner of Worldwide ERC® Global ’25, taking place at the Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Fragomen at Global ’25
Tuesday, October 28 – Immigration and Tax Summit
11:15–12:00 p.m. | Operations Breakout 3: Organizational Immigration Strategy
Speaker: Partner Eddie Raleigh
Join Eddie Raleigh as he explores best practices for developing and sustaining an organizational immigration strategy that aligns with business goals while navigating compliance and operational demands.
12:15–1:00 p.m. – Compliance Breakout 1: Navigating Ports of Entry
Speaker: Partner Parisa Karaahmet
Parisa will participate in a practical discussion on today’s most pressing U.S. immigration compliance and travel issues. From navigating increased scrutiny at ports of entry to managing stricter enforcement and visa petition adjudications, this session will offer real-world insights and strategies for in-house mobility and legal teams.
1:00–1:45 p.m. | Joint Immigration & Tax Lunch
Fragomen is the proud sponsor of this networking lunch, connecting global mobility and tax professionals for an open exchange of insights and collaboration opportunities.
Wednesday, October 29 - Fragomen WorkRight Session
7:15–8:45 a.m. – Corporate Breakfast: WorkRight / Future-Ready Compliance for Global Talent Mobility
Speakers: Dan Brown, Partner, Fragomen / CEO, WorkRight & Robert Horsley, Managing Director, Fragomen / COO and CPO, WorkRight
Thursday, October 30 – Fragomen Session
10:15–11:15 a.m. | Grand H
Session: The Haunted House of Global Mobility: Enter If You Dare
Speaker: Partner Joe Paldino
Step inside… if you dare! This interactive session—featuring prominent Global Mobility Leaders from Utah—will take you through the haunted halls of global mobility, where everyday compliance challenges can turn into terrifying traps if left unchecked.
Attendees will explore five of the most hair-raising areas keeping mobility professionals up at night:
- The Ghosts of DOL Compliance: How overlooked details in PERM recruitment, work location changes, and documentation can come back to haunt you.
- The PERM Workload Dungeon: Strategies for managing heavy recruitment workloads and tight timelines.
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Does My PERM Recruitment Reflect It All?: Aligning PERM processes with real-world hiring to avoid spooky surprises.
- Tracking Terrors and Visa Nightmares: Surviving the chaos of business travel, visa tracking, and documentation pitfalls.
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Closing General Session
Speaker: Enrique Gonzalez
Global Forces Shaping the Future of Talent Mobility
From shifting labor markets to changing trade and immigration policies, macroeconomic forces are redefining how organizations find, deploy, and develop talent across borders. Senior leaders from EY, Deloitte, Fragomen, and more will provide a top-down perspective on the trends driving these changes and their implications for workforce strategy, mobility programs, and global growth. A timely and wide-angle conversation, this session is a fitting close to the conference: expect actionable insights, strategic framing, and a rare big-picture perspective from the people who advise and represent multinational organizations every day.
Connect with Fragomen
Join us throughout Worldwide ERC® Global ’25 to engage with our team, attend insightful sessions, and discover how Fragomen helps organizations navigate the evolving global mobility landscape.
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Manager Pierangelo D'Errico explores how Italy’s Investor Visa is emerging as a strategic alternative to diminishing EU golden visa programmes, offering high‑net‑worth individuals flexible residence rights, deferred investment timing, Schengen access and a structured—though not accelerated—pathway to long‑term EU residence.
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Fragomen is recognised in Ibec’s Top 100 Companies Leading in Wellbeing Index 2026, highlighting its commitment to employee wellbeing and a supportive workplace culture.
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Senior Manager Alexander Hood and Senior Associate Lara Hannaway outline how the UK Global Talent visa is increasingly being used by internationally mobile individuals as a flexible UK residence option, examining who the route is designed for, the endorsement process and the sectors currently covered, including the new design route launching in July 2026.
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Senior Manager Samantha Arnold examines the closure of Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme and outlines the limited remaining options for high net worth individuals seeking Irish residence through approved investment and charitable donation routes.
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Awards
Partners Parisa Karaahmet, Raquel Liberman and Julia Onslow-Cole and Practice Leader Olga Nechita are recognised in Citywealth’s Top 30 Immigration Advisors 2026 for their leadership in advising high-net-worth individuals and families on global mobility and cross-border planning.
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Senior Associate Tracey Kimberly explores the recent increase in RFEs for EB‑5 I‑526E petitions, highlighting heightened USCIS scrutiny of source-of-funds documentation—particularly in cases involving loan-based investments and property sale proceeds.
Work authorization
Director Audrey Morew examines how Nordic immigration systems, while increasingly digital and efficient, can embed compliance risk earlier in the process—placing greater responsibility on employers to ensure data accuracy, internal controls and long‑term compliance from the outset.
Work authorization
Partner Rick Lamanna outlines Canada’s entry requirements for the FIFA World Cup 2026, highlighting visa and eTA processes, border expectations and special measures for participants to help travelers prepare for seamless entry during the tournament.
Media mentions
Partners Aaron Blumberg and Daniel Pierce discuss how a US pause on processing certain work permit applications including OPT creates uncertainty for international students and employers while early court rulings offer limited case-specific relief.
Fragomen news
Senior Counsel Jo Antoons, Senior Immigration Managers Manuela Birsan and Andreia Ghimis, Senior Manager Wout Van Doren, Associate Pauline Chomel and Immigration Supervisor Elisabeth Kamm contributed to the European Migration Network (EMN) Belgium report "Labour Migration in Times of Labour Shortages in Belgium."
Work authorization
Manager Pierangelo D'Errico explores how Italy’s Investor Visa is emerging as a strategic alternative to diminishing EU golden visa programmes, offering high‑net‑worth individuals flexible residence rights, deferred investment timing, Schengen access and a structured—though not accelerated—pathway to long‑term EU residence.
Media mentions
Partner Rick Lamanna discusses Canada’s expanded citizenship by descent rules extending eligibility to potentially millions of people worldwide with only distant ancestral ties.
Awards
Fragomen is recognised in Ibec’s Top 100 Companies Leading in Wellbeing Index 2026, highlighting its commitment to employee wellbeing and a supportive workplace culture.
Work authorization
Senior Manager Alexander Hood and Senior Associate Lara Hannaway outline how the UK Global Talent visa is increasingly being used by internationally mobile individuals as a flexible UK residence option, examining who the route is designed for, the endorsement process and the sectors currently covered, including the new design route launching in July 2026.
Work authorization
Senior Manager Samantha Arnold examines the closure of Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme and outlines the limited remaining options for high net worth individuals seeking Irish residence through approved investment and charitable donation routes.
Video
Partner Melissa Vasquez-Myers highlights key updates from the May 2026 Visa Bulletin, including a pause in employment-based advancement, continued movement in family-based categories and a warning of potential retrogression later this fiscal year.
Awards
Partners Parisa Karaahmet, Raquel Liberman and Julia Onslow-Cole and Practice Leader Olga Nechita are recognised in Citywealth’s Top 30 Immigration Advisors 2026 for their leadership in advising high-net-worth individuals and families on global mobility and cross-border planning.



