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Atom Law Group is a diverse team of multilingual attorneys working together to bring successful solutions to business and personal legal needs. In our polarized world, engaging people from both sides is more important than ever. As a company, we believe commerce is the key to bringing different groups together for common goals. By helping

Starting a new business or becoming a business owner is exciting. The entrepreneurial spirit of building a brand, creating a cohesive team, and becoming your own boss is thrilling, trending and maybe even slightly terrifying all at the same time. Or if you have owned your own business for sometime you might be experiencing a

Within immigration, there are multiple governmental entities that we work with to represent our clients’ interests and objectives. Just as the pandemic has had an effect on the way we live our everyday lives, there are many areas, including the few discussed below, where we have seen a substantial impact on how the immigration process

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) officially declared the state of Illinois eligible for the disaster assistance loan program on March 18, 2020. The federal program was launched in order to provide financial assistance to qualifying small businesses that have seen the worst of the economic impact of Coronavirus. The program was extended to

We are well beyond the pandemic threshold of COVID-19, and it’s clear that no precaution is too extreme. Many of us have never known a collective, self-imposed isolation like this. What that has meant for local and regional markets, and many of the businesses in them, is nothing short of disaster. Entire industries revolve around

In our last blog, we discussed the public charge rule that recently went into effect. Aside from the essence of the rule amplifying our country’s discrimination of immigrants, it’s also no solution to our country’s economic issues. Especially in certain regions. John Lettieri, the President & CEO of the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan research

On Monday, February 24, 2020, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rolled out the Public Charge Rule. While our county’s primary immigration law, today, is still the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, the new Public Charge Rule brings a seismic change in the immigration process as we know it. The federal government’s final rule

In 2019, the USCIS Chicago Field Office received 12,635 family-based Adjustment of Status applications. This means that roughly 243 applications were submitted per week. Many of these applications are put together and submitted without the help of an immigration attorney. Why not? Well, legal fees may be one reason. The cost of many basic immigration

Employment law is another area that has been given significant attention by Governor Pritzker’s administration. On August 9, 2019, Governor Pritzker enacted big changes to employment law in Illinois via the new Workplace Transparency Act. The Workplace Transparency Act, or WTA, focuses on the employer-employee relationship by protecting employee rights, as well as significantly modifying