A stakeholder teleconference will be held on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 from 2:30-4 p.m. (Eastern) by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) concerning work on revised EB-5 regulations. Regulatory revision has been identified ...
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The ABCs of the EB-5 Visa Program
Bloomberg's Yang Yang gives a basic explanation on the EB-5 immigrant investor program. She spoke on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." In this interesting and short interview, she first describes what EB-5 means and how it works. Y...
Real Estate Summit Discusses Alternative Financing such as EB-5
On March 7, nearly 300 CEOs, COOs, and other top real estate executives convened at the fifth annual Akerman U.S. Real Estate Summit held in downtown Miami, FL to discuss the latest trends in commercial real estate investment and explore creative ...
Rich Chinese Overwhelm EB-5 Visa Program
This CNN Money article discusses the dramatic surge in interest from the Chinese into the EB-5 Immigrant Visa Program and how it is threatening to overwhelm the program. According to the article, "the number of applicants is now so great t...
Canadian Minister Hints at New Immigrant Investor Program
CanadaVisa.com has reported that Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander, was in mainland China last week and spoke there about the future of the recently cancelled Federal Immigrant Investor Program. Mi...
Updates to the EB-5 Program in Vermont
Brent Raymond, the Executive Director of the Vermont EB-5 Regional Center, gives an interview with WCAX News about the state's program. Raymond provides insight into the program's management by the state, how over 600 temporary visas and 160 p...
First USCIS EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting with Director Nicholas Colucci
After a gap of 11 months, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) finally held the highly anticipated EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting, the first since Director Nicholas Colucci took office. There was no indication of how many people were particip...
EB-5 Investigation in South Dakota Moves to Legislature
The investigation into the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and its connections to the EB-5 Immigrant Visa Program and Northern Beef Packers moves to the legislature next week reports WNAX, Radio 570. Senator Jean Hunhoff of Yankton sa...
Industry Reaction to the Cancellation of the Canadian Investment Visa Program
Now that Canada, as of February, has cancelled its Investment Visa Program, we asked U.S. attorneys and service providers involved with the EB-5 Immigrant Visa Program to weigh in on how this might effect the United States’ program, what lessons c...
Atlantic Yards EB-5 Effort Gets Close Scrutiny
Journalist Norman Oder has studied and analyzed Forest City Ratner’s planned $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York, a project that three years ago, he reports, raised $228 million through the EB-5 immigrant visa program. Projec...
Nominated USCIS Director Will Have Questions on EB-5 to Answer
In December 2013, President Obama announced his decision to have Leon Rodriguez become the director of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), the agency that oversees the EB-5 Immigrant Visa Program. An article by Watchdog.org...
Audit Continues of Ex-Official in South Dakota with EB-5 Ties, Hearings Launched
A February 20, 2014 article in Aberdeen News investigates the audit underway of former South Dakota secretary of tourism and state development Richard Benda for expenses totaling approximately $89,000 that SDRC (South Dakota Regiona Center) should...
Canada Cancels Its Investment Visa Program
The government claims the program hasn’t paid off for Canada and that it undervalued Canadian permanent residence, others worry about its affect on the economy. The Canadian Immigrant Investor Program (CANIIP) was established in 1986 to e...
Chinese FDI in the US: 2013 Recap and 2014 Outlook
Chinese investment in the United States doubled in 2013, driven by large-scale acquisitions in food, energy and real estate. Private firms are now dominating capital inflows, accounting for more than 80% of transactions and more than 70% of t...
Register by Feb. 14 for USCIS Teleconference on EB-5
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to take part in a teleconference on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 from 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. During this engagement, USC...