Demand for international talent has not waned, despite a year of immigration-related change. Fifty-three percent of employers say they expect their foreign national headcount to increase in 2018. Further, 70 percent of employers say sourcing foreign national employees is very or extremely important to their talent acquisition strategy, which is higher than last year’s 63 percent of employers who said the same.
Eighty-eight percent of employers invest in immigration-related perks, with relocation expenses (41 percent), housing (39 percent) and dependent visas/green cards (34 percent) topping the list.
Employers have faced challenges in hiring and retention of global talent since the start of 2017. Eighty-five percent say the current U.S. immigration system has had an impact, 28 percent have increased staff to address these new challenges, 26 percent have had to delay projects and 22 percent have relocated work overseas as a result.
Sixty-two percent of employers have received more requests from their foreign national employees for more technology and for easier access to their immigration data, with 42 percent saying the biggest change they have seen over the past year is increased employee anxiety and questions. Because of this, employers rate employee experience as their number one deciding factor when choosing an immigration partner.
Q: Which country do you deal with most often for outbound (non-U.S.) immigration?
The purpose of the 2018 Immigration Trends Report is to help leaders like you reach your goals by exposing common trends as well as U.S. and non-U.S. immigration-related policies, processes and procedures. Our hope is that you’ll be able to use these as benchmarks to measure your own success and light the path to achieve your organization’s global mobility and immigration goals.
The national survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll from Nov. 13 to Dec. 13, 2017, with responses from 401 HR professionals and hiring managers across a variety of industries and company sizes.
Questions covered inbound and outbound global immigration processes and challenges.
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