EB5 Visa one of the Few Ways To Attract Top Engineers

This from Forbes: The Startup Case For Immigration Reform by Maureen Ferrell Aneesh Chopra It’s not just Google that’s worried about attracting and retaining top technical talent. However, the search giant’s recent 10% raise for all its employees is a leading indicator of the talent and compensation war surging through Silicon Valley, and among tech [...]

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 [...]

New South Korean EB-5 visa biotech project comes to Vermont

Agreement To Pave Way For New Biotech Jobs In Vermont Vermont Governor Jim Douglas recently finalised a plan with South Korean company AnC Bio to designate its new subsidiary, AnC Bio VT, LLC as an official Vermont EB-5 Regional Center Project. AnC Bio VT is now raising money for a planned new facility in Orleans [...]

NY State Legislator proposes EB-5 visa regional center for his district to develop a large scale ski resort

From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise comes a story about New York State legislator Tim Burpoe who has made one of his goals for 2010 to have his six county district designated as an EB-5 visa regional center.  Here is a quote from the article: “He also wants the county to move forward on getting an [...]

Noble Outreach $20 Million EB-5 visa project announced in New Orleans, Louisiana

News out of New Orleans has EB-5 Regional Center New Orleans’ Mayor’s Office developers Noble Outreach planning to fund a restaurant, hotel and conference center with $20 Million dollars in funding.  The story does not mention if there are any additional funding sources or if this will be completely funded by EB-5 visa foreign national [...]

Mike Steiner named as Executive Director of EB5 visa program Northeast Ohio Regional Center (NORC)

Steiner finds a fit as director of Northeast Ohio Regional Center January 24, 2010 By BRYAN SCHAAF Staff Writer WOOSTER — Mike Steiner built his own insurance company from the ground up more than 20 years ago. Now retired, city officials hope Steiner’s magic touch will rub off on his newest project. That’s because if [...]

Hybrid Startup Hopes to Build Cars in Alabama, EB-5 visa project for ACFI

Startup company Hybrid Kinetic Motors showed off its first concept car at a Montgomery, Ala., hotel in hopes of building support for its bid to build cars in that state. The Italian-designed Quaranta concept is part of an effort to convince state lawmakers to provide tax breaks and other economic incentives to the startup company. [...]

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 [...]

Adirondack Economic Development Corp. in Saranac Lake (NY) prepares EB-5 visa Regional Center application

Published January 09, 2010 08:20 pm – Plattsburgh International Airport development, an EB-5 investment for citizenship center, workforce development and the Quebec-New York Corridor are among the highlights.Chamber outlines 2010 priorities By DAN HEATH Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh-North Country Chamber of Commerce has unveiled its priorities as part of its Strategic Vision for [...]

Invest in U.S. Biz, Get an Immigrant Visa, ABC / Forbes EB-5 visa news story

EB-5 visa Regional Centers and principals mentioned: Bill Stenger of Jay Peak project, Vermont Agency of Community Development, and  Henry Liebman of American Life in Seattle. Invest in U.S. Biz, Get an Immigrant Visa U.S. Government Sets Aside 10,000 Visas for Foreign Investors By Katy Finneran, Forbes.com Jan. 9, 2010 Under the Immigration Act of [...]

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