Expert perspectives on visa compliance, international athlete management, and navigating immigration in professional and collegiate sports.
The F-1 visa pipeline is broken. 97,000 fewer international students arrived on U.S. campuses this year — the largest drop outside the pandemic. Your recruits are in that number.
University presidents are publicly calling for professional sports operating models. But as college athletics professionalizes everything from revenue sharing to facilities, one critical function is being left behind: immigration compliance.
Texas Tech just restructured $31M in athlete compensation into a professional-grade system. But most athletic departments still manage international student-athlete immigration with spreadsheets.
After the U.S. military strike on Venezuela, MLB teams rushed to get players stateside. The clubs with immigration systems in place moved fast. The ones scrambling spent three weeks in Colombia.
MLB's only guidance to teams about protecting foreign-born players? "Tell them to carry their papers." Front office staffers are improvising — and they're terrified.
Premium processing fees jump to $2,965 per petition on March 1. For a team with 30 international players, that's nearly $90K — just in processing fees.
The largest sporting event in history meets the most complex immigration landscape in decades. Here's what every sports organization needs to know.
NIL money, intensifying enforcement, and global expansion have made international athlete immigration the most urgent compliance issue in sports. Here's your strategic guide.
The WBC creates a compressed, high-stakes visa coordination challenge layered on top of spring training. Teams managing this manually are playing with fire.
With 93 active Venezuelan-born MLB players and TPS cancellations affecting hundreds of thousands, baseball's second-largest talent pipeline is under unprecedented strain.
Athletic departments have invested millions in performance analytics. But when it comes to international athlete compliance, most programs are running on spreadsheets and hope.
A Venezuelan team won the Latin American championship. They traveled to Colombia to apply for visas. They were rejected. Mexico's runner-up took their spot.
The House v. NCAA settlement allows schools to pay athletes millions — but international athletes on F-1 visas are legally barred from participating. Here's what's at stake.
With American diplomats expelled from Russia, NHL players must fly through Istanbul to renew visas at EU embassies. Some have been denied entry entirely.
When a player is traded across the border, their entire immigration status changes. The 30-day refiling window creates emergencies on trade deadline day.
When athletes get traded, their immigration status doesn't follow them. The 30-day refiling window is a ticking time bomb most teams aren't prepared for.
From Wembley Stadium to Dublin to São Paulo, professional and collegiate sports are going global. Are your immigration compliance systems ready for the expansion?