The Department of Homeland Security recently delivered welcome news for seasonal employers, announcing that an additional 64,716 H-2B visas will be issued in the 2024 fiscal year. This is in addition to the congressionally mandated 66,000 H-2B visas already available....
The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy has shared surprising insight into the exceptional entrepreneurial spirit of immigrants who settle in the U.S. According to data from 2018 and 2019, the national percentage of immigrant business owners is...
Not long after the hype over various AI-driven tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E made the news, stories of copyright violations soon followed. What are the specific concerns during this “wild west” period of AI content? Large language models scraping copyrighted content...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its EB-1 visa criteria to clarify the evidence required for applicants seeking extraordinary ability visas and outstanding professor or researcher visas. The USCIS hopes the update will help applicants...
As of this writing, the Writers Guild of America has been on strike for more than four months. The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers in mid-July. A key concern for members in both organizations is the...
The emotional complexities of divorce mean that each person processes the information differently. This is particularly true with children, who are in the midst of a continuous and sometimes tumultuous maturity cycle. Age is a critical factor in how to approach this...
Created to crack down on crime perpetrated against vulnerable undocumented immigrants, the U visa program was meant to encourage reporting and cooperation by noncitizens to apprehend criminals. Not only would victims feel more confident to report crimes against them...
People with assets in an irrevocable trust may want to update their estate plan to account for the IRS closing a popular capital gains tax loophole, effective March 2023, regarding the step-up in basis. What is a "step-up in basis?" The term refers to an irrevocable...
How much borrowing is too much borrowing? When does inspiration cross the line into stealing? The Supreme Court’s recent ruling over a work by Andy Warhol which featured an altered photo of Prince, taken by photographer Lynn Goldsmith, tries to draw a red line between...
Small business owners and entrepreneurs may not believe their little enterprise warrants a succession plan, but when people start asking basic transition questions regarding your eventual exit, the need for a succession plan becomes acutely necessary. The sooner, the...