USCIS Memo Mentions EB5 Visa Program, Proposes DOC Partnership

A new article on EB5info.com expands on how a recent proposal by USCIS may affect the EB5 visa community (link to article). In a memo made available Thursday, USCIS makes recommendations regarding the future of the EB5 visa program if comprehensive immigration reform does not pass this year. One key component of the memo suggests [...]

EB5 Visa News Item – Notice to USCIS Stakeholders

USCIS Office of Public Engagement sent this letter to stakeholders last week: Dear Stakeholders, USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed Rosemary Langley Melville, currently the Acting Regional Director in the Southeast Region, as the new California Service Center (CSC) Director.  Ms. Melville will assume her new responsibilities in late August. Effective Monday, July 12th Barbara [...]

EB-5 immigrant investor visa applicants by country annual report issued by the National Visa Center

Annual Report of Immigrant Visa Applicants in the Family-sponsored and Employment-based preferences Registered at the National Visa Center as of November 1, 2009 Most prospective immigrant visa applicants qualify for status under the law on the basis of family relationships or employer sponsorship. Entitlement to visa processing in these classes is established ordinarily through approval [...]

Commentary on recent USCIS EB-5 visa policy memos’ causes concern among AILA attorneys & EB5 visa program principals

From noted immigration attorney Charles Kuck, and principal in the Georgia Center For Foreign Investment and Development, comes insightful commentary in the AILA Leadership Blog from a long time member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on the recent “Neufeld” policy memo’s issued by USCIS and the effect it is having on the EB-5 [...]

ILW.com’s EB-5 panel of experts: focus changes to USCIS / CSC’s interpretation of indirect calculation of jobs

After publishing the story from yesterday: ILW.com hosting panel of EB-5 visa experts, third and last part in EB-5 series: “Investors For Experts”, I noticed that the agenda had changed considerably from its original format reported here in December: ILW.com hosting panel of EB-5 visa experts. This should not come as a surprise to EB-5 practitioners because [...]

ILW.com hosting panel of EB-5 visa experts, third and last part in EB-5 series: “Investors For Experts”

ILW.com will be hosting their third and final segment in their series “Investors for Experts” on EB-5 issues this Thursday, Jan. 21, from 2:00 – 3:30 pm (EST).  If you have not already signed up for this very informative discussion, please do so by registering at the ILW.com website EB5 seminar. We reported on their [...]

EB-5 Investor Visa story by NPR: Recession Fuels Spike In Foreign Investor Visas

National Public Radio’s Jennifer Ludden has produced a very balanced and informative piece on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa program. In the audio broadcast published today, she speaks with an English investor about his investment in the Marriott Hotel project run by EB-5 principal Henry Liebman of the American Life Seattle Regional Center, as well [...]

USCIS’s Donald Neufeld Memo On Adjudication Of EB-5 Regional Center Proposals, and other EB-5 visa program issues

USCIS Acting Associate Director, Domestic Operations issued a memo to the field leadership providing instruction to USCIS California Service Center, the staff who adjudicate the EB-5 I-526 and I-829 petitions, as well as the adjudication of EB-5 Regional Center proposals. This memo was issued after a one hour conversation in which many other issues were [...]

Recession Breathes New Life into US Immigrant Investor Visa Program

With thanks to noted immigration attorney Stephen Yale-Loehr for sending this article comes a great piece on the EB5 visa program from Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron of the Migration Policy Institute. Recession Breathes New Life into US Immigrant Investor Visa Program By Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron Migration Policy Institute December 15, 2009 As state [...]

Dreamers, Con Men, and Legitimate Businessmen

By Brandon Meyer, International Immigration Services, PA The American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (“AILA”) California Chapter held its annual conference this past weekend in Marina del Rey, California. Of particular note was a panel focusing largely on the EB-5 Regional Center program. The assembled panelists noted that the Regional Center program is presently a hot topic [...]

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