USCIS Answers Questions About The EB5 Visa

What is the EB5 Visa? The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as “EB-5,” was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by immigrant investors by creating a new commercial enterprise or investing in a troubled business. There are 10,000 EB-5 immigrant visas available annually. In 1992 and regularly [...]

Entrepreneurs Excited About Proposed Changes to EB5 Visa

From Entrepreneur: The Startup Visa: a Boost for Small Business? Proposed legislation could make it easier for entrepreneurs from other countries to start their businesses in the U.S. By Gwen Moran Two years ago, Brad Feld, managing director of Boulder, Colo.-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group, was working with two companies whose teams included foreign [...]

Ratner Accused of Using EB5 Funds to Save Money on Financing

The New York City Regional Center is handling this project. From the New York Daily News: State agency says Bruce Ratner used federal program to finance Atlantic Yards project, Nets arena A state official says funds Nets minority owner Bruce Ratner raises for the Atlantic Yards through a federal program that grants green cards to [...]

Why Greece’s problems mean potentially fewer European EB-5 visa immigrant investors

European leaders are meeting today to discuss plans to rescue Greece from a financial free-for-all which threatens to drag other EU countries economies and debt down with it.  Comments in anticipation of help by EU leaders, in particular from Germany, helped the euro rise earlier this week to $1.38 from a 9 month low against the dollar. [...]

Commentary skeptical of HK Automotive’s plans for EB-5 visa project in Alabama

From Charles Child of Automotive News comes a very skeptical view of HK Automotive’s plans to produce a line of “green” hybrid cars through the EB-5 visa immigrant investor program.  As we reported last week in our post: Hybrid Startup Hopes to Build Cars in Alabama, EB-5 visa project for ACFI, there was concern from [...]

H-1B downturn has spurred immigration attorneys to do EB-5 investor visa work

From Law.com a story about how immigration lawyers and firms have turned to doing EB-5 immigrant investor visas as their traditional work has suffered recently due to a drop in demand for other visas, in particular the H-1B.   Here is a quote: Enter the EB-5 immigrant investor program, which awards visas to wealthy foreigners [...]

Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement, EB-5 immigrant investor visa assessment from Silicon Valley

A slightly different angle from the IT / Tech community on the Startup visa featured in this morning’s story from a story published by Tech Crunch in October of 2009.   It is interesting to note the author’s, Mark Hendrickson, take on the EB-5 visa’s limitations for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, especially concerning the two year [...]

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 [...]

Outlook from UK perspective: House prices set to rise in 2010, dollar set to recover, China set for meteoric growth and UK set for export led boom

From the UK’s Investment and Business News comes their forecast and outlook for 2010.  As a large percentage of EB-5 visa foreign investors come from the UK, it is important for many EB5 visa regional centers that potential immigrant investors from Great Britain are financially better off in 2010 than they were in 2009.  Many [...]

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 [...]

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