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Dear Sophie: What are the pros and cons of the E-2 and L-1A visas?

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Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie, We co-founded a startup in Colombia, and we’re thinking about opening a sales office in the U.S.! Sophie Alcorn. Contributor.

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From bootstrapped to a $417M valuation, Chile’s Buk raises $50M for its HR management platform

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Today, Buk has over 4,000 clients that hail from a variety of industries in Latin America, including educational institutions, investment banks, fast food chains, law firms and others. In September alone, Buk says it grew 7% in Chile, 20% in Colombia, and 23% in Peru month-over-month. . Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

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. “In most jurisdictions, personal information that is ‘publicly available’, ‘publicly accessible’ or ‘of a public nature’ on the internet, is subject to data protection and privacy laws,” they write. So decisions on the core legality of tools like ChatGPT remains pending in the EU.

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Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M to help consumers securely store financial data

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He was born in Colombia, adopted, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He studied anthropology during his undergraduate years at Yale and always planned to attend law school. From there, he dropped everything, scrapped plans for law school, and went on the journey of learning about identity, naturally leading him to Wharton.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

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women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Law and Advocacy. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN.

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SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public

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Whether SWVL will continue its expansion into new markets such as Colombia, Mexico and South Africa, and the U.S. According to a source, the majority of the layoffs will come from the company’s Dubai and Pakistan offices. — announced during its SPAC merger — is uncertain. To those who will leave, I would like to say I am sorry.

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