I recently participated with two international founders on a panel at Tech Crunch Disrupt Berlin on how to scale your startup globally. Danny Crichton, the managing editor of Tech Crunch Extra Crunch, moderated the panel. My fellow panelists included Karoli Hindricks, founder and chief executive of Jobbatical, and Holger Seim, co-founder and chief executive of…
Alcorn Immigration Law won the Women’s Business Enterprise “Excellence in Growth Award” for being one of the fastest growing certified women-owned companies in the Pacific Region of the United States. The firm was nominated alongside 11 other certified women-owned companies in the same category. We are thrilled to receive this recognition! Thank you to WBEC-West…
Guten Tag! Founder Sophie Alcorn will be a featured speaker at this year’s TC Disrupt Berlin, which is on December 11-12. Sophie will share the stage with Karoli Hindriks, founder and CEO of Jobbatical, and Holger Seim, founder and CEO of Blinkist, to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls startups face when expanding globally with limited…
Founding Partner Sophie Alcorn will be a featured speaker at this year’s TC Disrupt San Francisco. Sophie will discuss how early-stage startups can make immigration work for them, including the dos and don’ts for bringing international talent into the U.S. on October 4th at 11:30 am. Tickets are available from TechCrunch. Use code ALCORN for…
Yesterday President Trump suggested he might have plans to provide a path to citizenship for H-1B visa holders. Tech employees, young entrepreneurs, startups, and the U.S. economy stand to benefit if this pathway comes to fruition. “H1-B holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity…
By Alcorn Immigration Law Founding attorney Sophie Alcorn knows that immigration causes innovation. That tenet is behind all that she does. Sophie recently talked with Asli Gozoren, a partner at SAYJ Global Partners, about what foreign startups and entrepreneurs should know about the current state of immigration. Sophie discusses everything from the impact of the…
Although the end is near for entrepreneur parole under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), startup founders have alternatives to build amazing companies in the U.S. After nearly a year of threatening to terminate the IER program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made good on that threat last week: It published a proposal in the…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can no longer delay the International Entrepreneur Rule. The judge ordered the administration to begin accepting applications under the rule, which allows startup founders to come to the U.S. to build their companies. The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) along with entrepreneurs and companies sued the federal…
The Trump administration has officially moved to end the International Entrepreneur Rule, which never took effect. The move came a few weeks after the International Entrepreneur Rule had a promising first day in federal court to determine its fate. The International Entrepreneur Rule would help foreign startup founders obtain an immigration status called parole to…
Ayvid Innovations has added founding attorney Sophie Alcorn to its cadre of advisors. The Los Altos, Calif., based firm connects entrepreneurs and startups from around the world to Silicon Valley resources, advisors, and investors. Alcorn began practicing immigration law in 2008. Since then, she has successfully handled hundreds of immigration cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, companies,…