North Carolina unemployment is 11.1%.  There is one residential foreclosure filed for every 1,595 households. Forty-five percent of consumers believe the current economic situation is bad.  We have discussed where people are cutting back and where they are not willing to scrimp, but as the recession lingers, more and more people will find it harder [...]

Yesterday, June 22, 2009, USCIS announced that it will resume the “Premium Processing Service” for certain categories of Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker.  Generally, the Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker is the second step in the employment-based Permanent Residency Process. Under the Premium Processing Service, USCIS guarantees petitioners that, for a $1,000 processing [...]

I’ve written before about being careful about what your social media profile might say to potential employers.  The City of Bozeman, Montana took its vetting process a step further by asking applicants for municipal jobs to provide all login and password information for social networking and blog sites. 

Amazon.com sent a notice yesterday morning to its “affiliate” sellers living in North Carolina stating that Amazon may terminate its North Carolina affiliates due to a pending “unconstitutional” change in the state tax law that would require Amazon to collect and pay NC sales tax on its NC sales. 

Currently, the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act prevents immigration officials (USCIS) from recognizing gay marriages, even from states or countries where they are now legal. This is true of nonimmigrant visas, permanent residency, naturalization, many waivers, and defenses to removal. For example, current law allows opposite-sex spouses of nonimmigrant visa holders (such as an H-1B [...]

Small businesses with cash flow problems may have trouble getting a line of credit in this financial environment.  One solution may be to factor your accounts receivables.