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USCIS Proposes Rule to increase Investment Thresholds for EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program

February 1, 2017

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is suggesting changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program which allows individuals to be eligible to apply for lawful permanent residence in the United States if they make the necessary investments in a commercial enterprise in the United States and create 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified…

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A Summary of President Trump’s Executive Order, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.”

January 30, 2017

Since the start of his presidency, President Trump has issued several executive orders. The latest and perhaps most controversial in the series came this past Friday, January 27, 2017. On Friday, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” Below is a summary of the…

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German American Business Outlook 2017

January 6, 2017

What are German American Business thinking about the current business conditions in the United States? And what are they expecting for 2017? With the results of last year’s presidential election in mind, the German American Chambers of Commerce, the Representative of German Industry and Trade, and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants conducted a survey among 1900…

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Too late, but never too late – Prosecution against aging Nazis

January 4, 2017

In the past two years, two men, Reinhold Hanning and Oskar Groning, who had worked as guards and bookkeepers at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II were convicted to four- and five-year sentences for accessory to murder in German courts. Both men are in their 90s today and while it might seem futile…

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The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

January 3, 2017

‘The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is a tremendous victory for privacy, individuals, and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.’– U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. What do you need to do and why? European businesses are prohibited from transferring data if certain data protection requirements are not being met. An American business which seeks to maintain its transatlantic transactions, thus, has…

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Israels Parlament stimmt für ‘Facebook-Gesetz’

December 29, 2016

Israel möchte künftig verstärkt gegen Hetze im Internet vorgehen. Ein Gesetzesentwurf hierzu erhielt nun in einer ersten Lesung die Mehrheit der Parlamentsstimmen. Laut eines entsprechenden Spiegelartikels von 03. Januar 2017 zielt der Entwurf darauf ab, Verwaltungsgerichten die Befugnis zu geben, “Internetplattformen wie Facebook, YouYube oder Google per Gerichtsbeschluss zur Löschung von Gewaltaufrufen zwingen zu können.”…

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Why travelers from 9 U.S.-States will soon need a passport for domestic flights

December 28, 2016

If you are a resident Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Washington, and you are planning domestic flights in 2018, then you might want to check if your passport is still valid. If at that occasion you discover that you do not have a passport and you do not wish to…

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8th Annual AmCham Germany Business Day: “Innovation Triangle – USA – Germany – Israel”

December 23, 2016

Israel has been known as an “innovation hub” for a long time and in no other country do companies apply for as many patents as in the US, followed by Japan and Germany. Join us for the 8th Annual AmCham Germany Business Day and discuss with our keynote speakers such as Dov Moran, the inventor…

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Trade Secret Protection

December 15, 2016

On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) into law. This new law creates the first private cause of action for civil trade secret misappropriation that can be brought in Federal Courts and with international implications. The DTSA expands trade secret protection for employers that previously could enforce…

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