State of California publishes EB-5 Investor Visa Program informational website

From Business.ca.gov comes an informative site on the EB5 visa program and the State of California’s role with the EB-5 visa. With  23 EB5 visa program regional centers, California leads the nation by far in USCIS designated EB5 Centers. Here is a short excerpt from their page: The information outlined below, which explains the EB-5 [...]

Lakewood sports complex clears committee hurdle; Federal stimulus, local bonds & EB-5 foreign investors expected to provide funding package

From The Northwest Herald comes a story that illustrates how EB-5 funds are beginning to be considered more often in planning and urban development projects. We are seeing more and more Economic Development Authorities and local councils elect to consider the use of EB-5 funds as part of the overall financing package now that domestic [...]

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 [...]

How to Apply for EB5 Regional Center Designation, Part I

EB5 Visa News readers have been asking for information on how they can apply for EB-5 Regional Center Designation.   To be sure, the process is complicated and we recommend hiring experts to help in filing the application, but this document should help illustrate the process and what the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) [...]

Map of all approved USCIS EB5 Visa Regional Centers

EB5 Regional Center Map EB5 Regional Center Map EB5 Regional Center Map EB5 Regional Center Map EB5 Visa News readers have asked USAdvisors for a map showing the location of all of the designated EB5 Regional Centers and we are happy to provide that here: Map of USCIS EB5 Regional Centers EB5 Visa News readers, [...]

Errors and omissions in USCIS EB-5 Regional Center databases

USAdvisors is constantly monitoring the release of information from USCIS concerning recently designated EB5 Regional Centers, as well as monitoring changes to existing EB5 Regional Center information for our EB5 visa immigrant investor clients.  We have noticed in the past few weeks that there are errors and omissions in the  databases and in the information [...]

EB5 Visa News Featured Book: Martin J. Lawler’s: Professionals: A Matter of Degree

EB5 Visa News readers have been asking for more information and profiles on select EB5 attorneys and articles that they have written, or books published, and we are happy to feature San Francisco lawyer Martin Lawler and his excellent book on business visas Professionals: A Matter of Degree.  This publication is now in its 5th edition [...]

Builder seeks funding from abroad

While this article is from Miami, it could have been written from anywhere in the country.  I think that it is a great illustration of the lengths that property developers must go through now to secure funding for their projects and illustrates a concern that experienced Miami Immigration Attorney Jose Latour, among others, have voiced, [...]

EB-5 Jeebies- Regional Center Investment Misinformation Abounds

By Jose Latour Immigration Attorney, Bernstein Osberg-Braun & de Moraes EB-5 Jeebies- Regional Center Investment Misinformation Abounds Look, I’m TRYING HARD here, guys.  I’m not really interested in naming names or getting people angry but I’ll tell you what: if some of the more BALONEY-laden EB-5 Regional Centers and lawyers don’t get a grip on [...]

Immigration through Investment

Immigration through Investment from the USCIS website: Overview Under section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. §1153(b)(5), 10,000 immigrant visas per year are available to qualified individuals seeking permanent resident status on the basis of their engagement in a new commercial enterprise. Of the 10,000 investor visas (i.e., EB-5 visas) available [...]

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