In China today, immigration agents know that after Spring Festival there will really be a New Year to think about. A new crop of 60+ EB5 projects are on their way to Chinese EB5 investors. EB5 agents are even now commenting about the sheer si...
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NASAA 2012 Top Investor Threats: EB-5 Investment-for-Visa Scams
The North American Securities Administrators Association has released their list of the top 10 financial products and practices "that threaten to trap unwary investors." This list was complied by the association's securities regulators in their En...
USCIS EB-5 Engagement Monday Dec. 3 2pm EST
USCIS will be holding an engagement on Monday, Dec. 3 from 2pm - 4pm EST to discuss job creation, job counting and tenant occupancy among other EB5 visa related issues. Anyone who is interested in hearing their position on these vital topics is e...
EB5 Projects in China September 30 - October 6
Project 1 Green energy-saving building materials projects, existing products involve a number of third-party patent technology, you can get authorization to allow manufacturers to produce their own products. The basic situation of the projec...
EB5 Projects in China September 16 -22
1. San Francisco Bay Area, California Community Project The amount of investment immigration: $ 500,000 Investment in the number of immigrants: 280 (a) Come and favorable exit mechanism (investment over 30 months...
EB5 Projects in China September 9 -15
1. Idaho Huang Jinling Gold Project The Idaho investment regional center position and the industry The Idaho regional immigration center on February 16, 2010 approved by the USCIS. The regional representative of the center, incl...
El Monte EB-5 Regional Center Terminated, AAO denies appeal
USCIS's Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) has upheld the Agency's earlier denial of El Monte to retain its EB-5 Visa Regional Center designation. In an update from a story that we reported on last year Chaotic EB5 Visa Project Brings Down El Mo...
USCIS EB-5 Visa Stakeholders Call, 2012 Program statistics released
USCIS will be unveiling and discussing the most recent I-526, I-829 and I-924 receipts, approvals, denials and approval percentages today at 1pm EST. The most interesting observation from the statistics released was the increase in I-526 receipts...
Update on EB-5 Visa Program Regional Center re-authorization status
From noted immigration attorney Mona Shah comes this announcement regarding the re-authorization of the EB-5 Regional Center "Pilot" (passive) program: June 18, 2012, Congressman Peter T. King issued a letter confirming that the EB-5 visa pilot...
USCIS Announces new EB-5 Visa dedicated program office
USCIS has announced the formation of a new office specifically designed to address and oversee issues related to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa program: Dear Stakeholder, I am pleased to announce that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servic...
New California Rules Limit EB-5 TEA Designations
Location of California EB-5 Regional Centers Last week, the California Governor?s Office of Business and Economic Development held an open conference call with EB-5 visa program stakeholders. The topic of conversation was a new, controversial s...
Engagement with Director Mayorkas and EB-5 Economists 3pm (EST) Today
There will be an EB-5 stakeholders meeting at 3pm (EST) today with USCIS Director Mayorkas regarding the Agency's review of EB-5 Economic methodologies used in reviewing both investor cases as well as EB5 Regional Center applications and amend...
California EB-5 Visa Foreign Investor Program Update: Today 2pm PST
There will be a briefing call today from The California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to discuss their policy on the EB-5 Program and recent changes made to the way they designate Targeted Employment Area's (TEAs). Here i...
Two Bills. Two Choices: EB-5 and Startup Bills Now Before Congress
Senators Leahy (D-VT) and Grassley (R-IA) have introduced legislation that would make the EB-5 program permanent. Two new bills now sit before Congress, and both of them could impact the effect of foreign capital ? and foreign-born entrepreneur...
Do Business Incubators Spell EB-5 Opportunity?
The Center for Innovation at the University of North Dakota is using EB-5 investments to fund startup companies. When you think, ?EB-5 visa project,? what comes to mind? For many, it?s hotels, ski resorts, and other commercial real estate devel...