President Trump’s executive order pausing some green card issuance specifically exempts a visa program allowing China’s elite to effectively buy American citizenship for themselves and their families. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive...

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USCIS approved the I-924 exemplar application for CanAm’s Westin Hotel at the Texas Medical Center project last month. CanAm Enterprises (“CanAm”) is thrilled to announce that the I-924 exemplar for its Westin Hotel at Texas Medical Center ...

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Here’s why an EB-5 visa is the best graduation gift you can give your child who is attending a U.S. school or college. As we approach the end of the school year, you may be helping your children plan the next steps they wish to take in thei...

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Three individuals who intervened in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit over an EB-5 visa fraud scheme challenged a bid by the alleged fraudster's receiver to sue them in California state court for their purported participation in t...

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Processing Developments USCIS has not yet updated the Check Case Processing Times page to a new format or with any new content to reflect the Visa Availability Approach that’s now being implemented for I-526. The page update may not happen ...

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Here’s how long you may have to wait for an EB-5 visa after preparing and filing your I-526 Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor. Preparing and Filing an I-526 Petition: Filing an I-526 petition for an EB-5 visa is the first step of the ...

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The EB-5 visa availability approach, the new I-526 petition processing change announced earlier this year by USCIS, has now gone into effect. Here’s what that means for EB-5 investors from top countries. First, what is the visa availability...

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Combined, the funds from JTC PLC and NES Financial will service $130 billion in assets One of the country’s largest EB-5 and Opportunity Zone fund administrators will be acquired for at least $40 million amid a push to change EB-5 rules to ...

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The major economic disruption brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has put experts on different sides of the fence about whether an idea to expand the scale of the EB-5 program as part of a broader federal emergency stimulus package could...

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On March 18, 2020, USCIS temporarily suspended all its in-person services at their field offices in an effort to help slow the spread of Covid-19 (Coronavirus). Here’s what that means for your EB-5 application. USCIS has stated that its sta...

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(Above left) Rendering by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP of The Carillon, which would have replaced George A. Tripp House (above right) at 42 East Superior Street, along with 44 and 46 East Superior Street. Chicago-based Skidmore Owings & M...

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A controversial immigration program that awards U.S. visas to wealthy investors, mostly Chinese, could be expanding. The White House is reported to be considering a proposal to increase the number of EB-5 green cards from 10,000 to 75,000 a...

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These are the primary EB-5 Regional Center investment advantages. When an EB-5 investor selects the EB-5 Regional Center Program, they are choosing to make an investment through a government-approved Regional Center rather than investing di...

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Introduction: What is EB-5? EB-5 capital has risen from obscurity to prominence in a dizzying decade. One developer client has said, “A few years ago, no one had heard of EB-5. Now at every golf outing or cocktail party, someone mentions EB...

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Republicans?not Democrats?are leading the charge for a mass immigration scheme amid what we have been told is national security, health, and economic crisis. Why? As Americans struggle to stem the spread of the Wuhan virus, the Republican P...

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