EB-5 Visa: The Best Is Yet To Come!
The 5/30/13 USCIS EB-5 Adjudications Memorandum: What it Means to Investors The EB-5 Visa is almost certainly going to become a more reliable means to immigrate to the U.S. in future thanks to the May...
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Immigrant Students Can Spell, USCIS Can’t
Anyone who has watched the U.S. (Scripps) National Spelling Bee knows that the finalists are almost all children of immigrant parents (Indian-Americans alone have accounted for 10 of the last 14 first...
View ArticleFINRA Weighs In On EB-5 Due Diligence
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which regulates the conduct of broker-dealers and their representatives, has replied to a member’s request for interpretive guidance on the applicability of...
View ArticleEB-5 Visa Processing (I-526 Petitions)
USCIS Performance Data on I-526 Petitions for Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2013 Petitions Received Approved Denied Pending October – December 2012 1935 693 263 6095 January – March 2013 1350 833 220...
View ArticleI Want to Manage My EB-5 Investment Myself!
It’s been a while since my last post. I didn’t stop writing, however. I have been busy lately writing articles for publication in EB-5 books, including one in the very important book “Immigration...
View ArticleHow NOT to Pick an Attorney
I recently spoke with an EB-5 investor who was not happy with her immigration attorney (a lawyer I had never heard of). I asked the investor how she had selected the attorney. She replied “Avvo.com.”...
View ArticleSEC Investigation Targets EB-5 Lawyers for Taking Finder Fees
A February 13, 2015 article by Bloomberg News noted that “[t]he SEC is preparing sanctions against as many as two dozen immigration lawyers … for collecting deal fees from foreign investors trying to...
View ArticleAn Easy Way to Find an Ethical EB-5 Lawyer
The recent news indicating that many EB-5 attorneys were illegally accepting finder fees from regional centers has led many investors to ask “How can I know whether the lawyer I am thinking about...
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I-526 (EB-5) Processing Times Improve
Yesterday the USCIS announced new average processing times for I-526 (EB-5) petitions that show a reduction in the average processing time from 14.0 months to 13.2 months (see...
View ArticleEB-5 Reform: What’s Ahead
For the first time we a putting a guest post on our blog. The article below was written by the distinguished immigration law scholar and practitioner Stephen Yale-Loehr. The article has been widely...
View ArticleEB-5 Visa Processing (I-526 Petitions)
USCIS Performance Data on I-526 Petitions for Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2013 Petitions Received Approved Denied Pending October – December 2012 1935 693 263 6095 January – March 2013 1350 833 220...
View ArticleI Want to Manage My EB-5 Investment Myself!
It’s been a while since my last post. I didn’t stop writing, however. I have been busy lately writing articles for publication in EB-5 books, including one in the very important book “Immigration...
View ArticleHow NOT to Pick an Attorney
I recently spoke with an EB-5 investor who was not happy with her immigration attorney (a lawyer I had never heard of). I asked the investor how she had selected the attorney. She replied “Avvo.com.”...
View ArticleSEC Investigation Targets EB-5 Lawyers for Taking Finder Fees
A February 13, 2015 article by Bloomberg News noted that “[t]he SEC is preparing sanctions against as many as two dozen immigration lawyers … for collecting deal fees from foreign investors trying to...
View ArticleAn Easy Way to Find an Ethical EB-5 Lawyer
The recent news indicating that many EB-5 attorneys were illegally accepting finder fees from regional centers has led many investors to ask “How can I know whether the lawyer I am thinking about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I-526 (EB-5) Processing Times Improve
Yesterday the USCIS announced new average processing times for I-526 (EB-5) petitions that show a reduction in the average processing time from 14.0 months to 13.2 months (see...
View ArticleEB-5 Reform: What’s Ahead?
For the first time we a putting a guest post on our blog. The article below was written by the distinguished immigration law scholar and practitioner Stephen Yale-Loehr. The article has been widely...
View ArticlePROPOSED REFORMS MEAN EB-5 INVESTOR RISK WILL INCREASE
Many EB-5 investors are preparing their I-526 petitions now so as to avoid the impending increase in the minimum investment amount to $800,000. But that’s not the only reason to get in before the...
View ArticleU.S. Congress Reauthorizes EB-5 Program until December 11, 2015
On September 30, 2015, the U.S. Congress passed a “clean reauthorization” (time period extended, but no other changes) of the EB-5 Pilot Program through December 11, 2015. President Barack Obama signed...
View ArticleEB5 Reform Effort Fails: Minimum Investment Still $500,000 (For Now)
Despite widespread reports in early December that the U.S. Congress had reached an agreement on EB-5 Visa Program reform, attempts at compromise apparently failed at the last minute as big-city...
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