Bikashita (Leema) Saikia
San Francisco Bay Area
Summary
Global Mobility Specialist with expertise in Global Immigration and proven success in developing effective mobility strategies. Manages international assignment processes while ensuring compliance with immigration laws and local regulations. Collaborates with HR, Payroll, Legal, and Finance teams to provide expert guidance. Achieves results in fast-paced environments by combining strategic thinking with hands-on experience.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Legal
NielsenIQ
01.2025 - Current
- Immigration subject-matter expert for America’s and EU Immigration processes, policies, and protocols. Keeping abreast with global immigration laws and regulations to support the mobility needs of the business. Interpret, monitor, and assess immigration and labor laws for the business and deliver process and workflow improvements as and when needed.
- Recommend and implement updates and changes to keep internal immigration support as per industry trends and relevant industry benchmark study.
- Train HRBP and Talent acquisition on talent mobility, external hiring, and internal relocation.
- Escalation manager for any immigration matters and provide analysis on complex mobility, immigration and compliance issues, and ensuring high standards of service delivery.
- Lead M&A deals for successful transition of the involved employee pool with a track record to meet tight deadlines.
- Single point of contact in vendor management for Global Immigration across Americas, EMEA and APAC.
- Triage, manage and monitor of all HRInvestigations cases on NAVEX.
- Provide training to all HR Investigators across the globe – Americas, EMEA and APAC.
- Successful track-record in program management and Ad-hoc projects within the legal team.
Global Mobility and Immigration Lead
NielsenIQ
10.2021 - 12.2024
- Developed and executed comprehensive global mobility strategies aligned with the company’s business objectives and oversee the end-to-end process of global mobility assignments, including relocation, immigration, tax, and compliance.
- Immigration subject-matter expert for America’s Immigration processes, policies, and protocols. Manage end-to-end cycle of H-1B CAP process, DOL PERM process, and strategy for the United States. Lead I-9 Immigration compliance, manage and maintain Public Access Files.
- Recommend and implement updates and changes to keep internal immigration support as per industry trends and relevant industry benchmark study.
- Partner with business leaders, HR, and Talent acquisition on talent mobility, external hiring, and internal relocation. Provide analysis on complex mobility, immigration and compliance issues, and ensuring high standards of service delivery.
- Partner with all stakeholders for M&A deals and lead the successful transition of the involved employee pool with a track record to meet tight deadlines.
Global Mobility and Immigration Lead
NielsenIQ
11.2020 - 09.2021
- Build the US immigration Program – oversee the successful transition of 200+ pool of employees impacted by divestiture.
- Immigration subject-matter expert for U.S. Immigration processes, policies, and protocols. Manage end-to-end cycle of H-1B CAP process, DOL PERM process, and strategy for the United States. Lead I-9 Immigration compliance, manage and maintain Public Access Files.
Global Mobility – Immigration
The Clorox Company, Pleasanton, CA
07.2020 - 11.2020
- Act as an immigration subject matter expert.
- Partner with functions and stakeholders on immigration matters associated with international transfers or domestic hiring.
- Supervision of all the services delivered by the client’s Immigration Services Provider, including continuous evaluation of results and implementation of action plans to improve the services.
- Manage all immigration matters and processes and partner with HR to address global mobility challenges and immigration policy development.
- Majorly contributed to the development of the global mobility department to have the best in-class relocation program and monitored mobility programs and policies for the company.
- (Contract)
Immigration Specialist
International Law Group, San Jose, CA
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Partnered with employers to address global mobility challenges, immigration policy development and streamline employee experience by developing and monitoring mobility programs and policies for employers.
- Independently worked with clients with their US immigration filing, preparing, and processing of varied employment-based immigration processes and services that include the following: - H, L, B, J visas and O applications: for adjustment of status, an extension of status, consular processing, maintaining employment authorization, advance parole, reentry permit, and Naturalization applications. - PERM, I-140, I-485 through the EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3. Have been involved in creating of recruitment reports and filing of PERM with DOL.
- Maintained, tracked and corresponded with USCIS on all case matters, status inquiry on pending applications and follow up with USCIS on pending applications.
Education
Master’s - United States Law
Santa Clara University, School of Law
Santa Clara, CA12.2011
Skills
- Expertise in Global Mobility Strategy, Immigration and Tax compliance
- Develop and administer workflow and processes for global visa matters and Immigration M&A
- Strong vendor management skills
- Team player with strong interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills with a strong passion for employee satisfaction
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, SAP, Serengeti (Legal Tracker), Connect, Data Management, NAVEX
- Speak fluent English, Hindi, and Assamese
Hobbies and Interests
Travel and pottery.
Timeline
Senior Manager, Legal
NielsenIQ
01.2025 - Current
Global Mobility and Immigration Lead
NielsenIQ
10.2021 - 12.2024
Global Mobility and Immigration Lead
NielsenIQ
11.2020 - 09.2021
Global Mobility – Immigration
The Clorox Company, Pleasanton, CA
07.2020 - 11.2020
Immigration Specialist
International Law Group, San Jose, CA
01.2016 - 01.2020
Master’s - United States Law
Santa Clara University, School of Law
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