Archive for the ‘Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division’ Category
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
By Brian Taylor Goldstein To those of you wondering what is happening with The Screaming Carrot Demon’s immigration ban, his Executive Order slithered out of the White House today. Here’s the deal: Today’s spewage only addresses immigrant visas (green cards). Though there is a fairly long list of exceptions, for the next 60 days people […]
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Tags: Coronavirus, covid, Trump immigration ban, visa, visas
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
Unemployment and the CARES Act For Non-US Artists April 7, 2020 By Brian Taylor Goldstein Shocking as it may sound, USCIS has passed a tiny wind of hope in the direction of artist visas during this coronavirus pandemic. The Department of Homeland Security (which sets the policies for USCIS) has confirmed that applying for unemployment […]
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Tags: CARES Act, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Furlough, immigration, unemployment, visa, visas
Posted in Artist Management, Employees, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Uncategorized, Visas | Comments Off on USCIS JUST THREW ARTISTS A CRUMB!
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
Cancelled Engagements, Unemployment, Layoffs, and Visa Renewals March 31, 2020 By Brian Taylor Goldstein As the tumbleweeds blow through Times Square and we begin to consider the viability of Easter peeps or even kale to supplement the dwindling toilet paper supplies, there is an understandable amount of angst and confusion on many fronts. Not least […]
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Tags: consulates, Coronavirus, lay offs, unemployment, visa extensions
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Friday, March 13th, 2020
By Brian Taylor Goldstein In short, not much. As you can imagine, this was announced without any details as to how, exactly, this was going to work in terms of screening, implementation, flight schedules, etc. But here what we know so far… Anyone who has been in one of the 26 European countries in the […]
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Tags: acts of god, consulates, Coronavirus, Force majeur, travel, travel ban
Posted in Acts of God, Artist Management, Arts Management, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Uncategorized, Visas | Comments Off on What We Know So Far About Trump’s Coronavirus Travel Ban
Friday, March 13th, 2020
I, like most of you, was ingrained with the paradigm that the show must go on no matter what—to the extent that I once performed a whole show the day after I had all four wisdom teeth extracted. However, these are extraordinary times. The live, performing arts will not suffer more than any other economic […]
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Tags: act of god, Force majeur, ticket refunds
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Let’s all step back and take a breath for moment. As you can imagine, the coronavirus has overrun (dare I say “infected?”) our office with an ever growing stream of cancellations based on force majeur and concerns from venues, presenters, agents, and artists from around the world. As the situation has […]
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Tags: acts of god, cancellation, cancellations, Contracts, Coronavirus, force majeure
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
Depending on the consulate and a person’s nationality, a “renewal by mail” option is “sometimes” available for artists who are applying for the same visa (O, P, F, etc) within 1 year of the last one. For example, a famous conductor who comes to the U.S. each year on O-1 visas and who gets approved […]
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Tags: Consulate, immigration, visa application, visa renewal, visas
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Friday, December 13th, 2019
December 13, 2019 Hi folks Sorry for our infrequent posts. We’ll try and do better. To that end, I thought I’d share an issue that just arose with one of our clients. A booking agent filed P-1/P-1S visa petitions for a group that has previously been approved. This time, they received an RFE on a […]
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Tags: agents, Goldstein, rfe, visa petition, visas
Posted in Agents, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Visas | Comments Off on Visa Tip for Booking Agents/Managers
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. Hi everyone! The issue of artists leaving a roster and re-booking themselves at a venue their manager/agent originally found for them is always an ongoing problem. I’ve been asked to re-post a blog we did on this several years ago. Here it is….. Dear Law and Disorder: What would be […]
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Tags: agent, contract, re-booking, roster
Posted in Agents, Artist Management, Contracts, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division | Comments Off on Emancipating Artists From Your Roster
Friday, April 5th, 2019
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Most of you are aware by now that in fall 2018 a number of significant policy and procedural changes were imposed on the already exasperating process of obtaining U.S. artist visas. No surprisingly, these changes were the work of Donald Trump, who is also known by many other names: Cheeto-In-Chief, Trumpty […]
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Tags: Tour, uscis, visa petition, visas
Posted in Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Visas | Comments Off on U.S. Artist Visa Updates as of April 5, 2019