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EB-5 Predictions for 2015 the Year of the Goat
February 19, 2015 marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year. This will be the Year of the Goat, an animal known for its determination, elegance and good nature. The goat is also known to worry too much and while others impose on it, it is strong...
Issues Raised From December USCIS EB-5 Stakeholder's Meeting
On December 5, 2014 USCIS held their EB-5 Stakeholder’s Meeting in Washington, DC. This was the first stakeholder’s meeting after President Obama’s Nov. 20 speech relating to his Executive Order. Interestingly, although the USCIS EB-5 Program Chie...
USCIS EB-5 Engagement Friday, Dec. 5
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a stakeholder engagement session on Friday, Dec. 5, from 1-3 p.m. Eastern to discuss the Immigrant Investor Program. This engagement is part of USCIS' efforts to ...
Homewood Suites in Atlanta Opens Due to EB-5 Funding
A newly opened Homewood Suites in East Point, Ga., which is near the Atlanta airport, received $15 million in funding from 30 EB-5 Immigrant Visa Program investors worldwide. East Point Mayor Jannquell Peters cut the ribbon at the grand opening, a...
Politics and the South Dakota EB-5 Investigation
Former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R) is running for state senate. Governor from 2003 to 2011, Rounds has been linked to the failure of South Dakota’s failed EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, and this involvement has put the possibility of e...
MPI Report Findings on Immigrant Investor Programs Such as EB-5
The demand for immigrant investor programs that offer citizenship in exchange for financial investments worldwide is growing, as the demand from China and other emerging economies grows. As more countries set up programs, other countries with long...
EB-5 Webinar 'When are Issuers and Regional Centers Conducting Unregistered Broker-Dealer Activity?' on Wednesday
A webinar titled "When are Issuers and Regional Centers Conducting Unregistered Broker-Dealer Activity?" will be held Wednesday, October 15, 2014 from 2 to 3 p.m. It is being hosted by EB5 Diligence, an EB-5 industry third-party due diligence firm...
Florida Organic Aquaculture Project Funded by EB-5
An entrepreneur that came to the U.S. from South Africa for better opportunities, Clifford Morris was looking for industries with economic potential and identified the future trend of sustainable food production, but he needed funding. He turned t...
EB-5's I-526 Material Change Clause Explained
The USCIS has established that, once an I-526 (Petition by Alien Entrepreneur) has been filed and rejected, the petitioner may not “materially change” the proposal presented in the original petition. The question is, “What does that mean?” Let’...
Report from China
I recently returned from speaking at the OIIF Conference held in Beijing and thought to share a few observations: 1. The issue of retrogression and the quota cap on Chinese investors was by far the greatest issue discussed by all. Ron Klasko o...
Miami EB-5 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!
This past Sunday, Gonzalo Lopez-Jordan of the American Regional Center, John Pratt with Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli and Pratt P.A and I got together to support a great cause by taking on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. We survived and at the en...
Survey Says – Wealthy Chinese Heading Overseas
A recent global survey of high net worth individuals by Barclays Wealth discovered that 47 percent of the wealthy Chinese questioned plan to move overseas within the next five years. The report, “Wealth Insights, The Rise of the Global Cit...
September 10, 2014 USCIS EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting Summary
Today’s EB-5 Stakeholder’s Meeting (held on September 10, 2014), in Washington, DC. was the first EB-5 Stakeholder’s Meeting following the State Department’s critical announcement last month, relating to the unavailability of current visas for ma...
Russian Money in Britian’s EB-5-Like Program
Britain operates a similar program to the U.S.’s EB-5 Immigrant Visa, where three-year investor visas are granted to foreigners who invest £1 million or more in government bonds. Whereas in the United States, 80 percent of the immigrants are Chine...