Intent Is To Build In Downtown District
The state of Vermont is actively advertising to buy land in downtown Newport City for a new courthouse.
The plan is to replace the “antiquated” Vermont Superior Court on Main Street and offices in ...
Over the years interest in the EB-5 Program has shifted as world events have taken place and changes have been made to the EB-5 Program itself.
A review of the site traffic from September 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 gives insight into the...
Over the years interest in the EB-5 Program has shifted as world events have taken place and changes have been made to the EB-5 Program itself.
A review of the site traffic from September 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 gives insight into the...
Vacant since the 2009 demolition of the old Hotel on The Square building, the sprawling One Journal Square property has been a blight on the neighborhood for over a decade.
A long-running saga involving a large parcel of land near the Jour...
In order to qualify as an immigrant investor and obtain a visa through the EB-5 Program, the investor/applicant will need to submit a Form I-526 (the latest version of the form can be found at www.uscis.gov).
The I-526 form seeks:
Biogra...
Petitioners who believe that their I-526 was denied in error have the option of appealing to the Administrative Appeals Office. AAO decisions on these appeals eventually get published to the USCIS website, where I read them and take notes to l...
Here are the latest EB-5 case processing times for the I-526 Immigrant Petition for Alien Investor.
The overall estimated time range listed on USCIS is 37 months to 73.5 months. Below that, however, is a slight breakdown for investors from...
Ariel Quiros, former owner of Jay Peak Resort, stands outside the federal courthouse in Burlington, Vermont on May 22, 2019, after his arraignment on fraud charges over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using foreign investors’ mone...
Jay Peak developers Ariel Quiros left, and Bill Stenger was indicted on May 22, 2019, in federal court in Burlington.
A showdown is brewing between one-time business partners Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger as one is braced for jail time and...
Between 2016 and 2018 there were over 800 active and USCIS approved EB-5 regional centers, but after changes to the program in late 2019, to targeted employment area designations and investment amount increases, the number of USCIS approved EB...
A stopgap funding bill to avoid a U.S. federal government shutdown temporarily extends otherwise expiring immigration categories, but also includes an interesting permanent provision to solve the ongoing financial problems of USCIS, a fee-fund...
Attorneys for Jay Peak are challenging the ski resort’s nine-figure property tax bill, according to the Caledonian-Record. A hearing is scheduled in Newport for October 29.
The resort wants the Town of Jay to reduce its property tax assessm...
America’s foreign adversaries, chief among them China, could utilize one of the federal government’s most noteworthy immigration programs against the United States, threatening its national security and undermining democracy, U.S. Rep. Guy Res...
The estimated annual employment-based visa limit is anticipated to be approximately 261,500 for FY 2021, which begins October 1, 2020. The EB-5 Program receives 7.1% of the employment-based visas available or about 18,566.
From the October ...
The October 2020 Visa Bulletin takes effect today. The Bulletin shows rapid advancement in priority dates for both final action dates and dates for filing in the employment-based (EB) preference categories, with the exception of EB-5. Signific...