Partnership between USAdvisors and China Stock TV

EB-5 Practitioners in the U.S. to be Featured on Chinese Television Michael Gibson USAdvisors.org will film and conduct interviews with attorneys, securities analysts, service providers, Regional Centers and project managers in cities around the U.S. for the next few months The focus of the interviews will be to give the Chinese investors a source of [...]

EB5 Project To Be One of the Largest Mixed-Used Marina Facilities in Southwest Florida

From PR Newswire: Charlotte Harbor Marina is First Approved EB5 Development Launched by Charlotte Harbor Regional Center The recent final approval by the USCIS of the Charlotte Harbor Regional Center (CHRC) and its first EB5 development project – Charlotte Harbor Marina – represent a number of firsts for Southwest Florida: The first Regional Center “headquarters” building [...]

Wall Street Journal Story About Immigrant Investors and EB-5

Some familiar names appeared on a Wall Street Journal blog this week. Both Michael Gibson of USAdvisors.org and Greg Siskind of the Siskind Susser law firm discussed the EB-5 visa program with the Journal, outlining their recommendations for financial advisors who are working (or would like to work) with foreign clients. Immigrant Investors, An Underserved [...]

Law firm Miller Mayer releases video “EB-5 Immigration Through Investment” by their EB-5 visa practice group

This is by far the best short explanation of the EB-5 visa program we have seen from respected law firm Miller Mayer and the need to hire competent counsel in the filling of an EB-5 visa petition.  Narrated by attorneys Stephen Yale-Loehr, Carolyn Lee, and Nicolai Hinrichsen,  the video does a great job of giving [...]

Wanted: Investors from afar, EB-5 visa program perspective from St. Louis

From St. Louis Today comes and interesting perspective on the EB-5 visa program: Wanted: Investors from afar By Tim Logan ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Sunday, Jan. 24 2010 CLAYTON — St. Louis wants to tap more overseas capital by giving more overseas capitalists the right to live here. Local economic development officials are applying to the State [...]

China Daily story on potential fraud for Chinese EB-5 visa investors using unscrupulous agents “More wealthy Chinese go for Green Card”

Anyone who is involved in this EB5 visa immigrant investor program quickly realizes that China accounts for the vast sum of foreign national immigrant investors coming into the U.S. on the EB5 visa program.  The sums of money invested from China are so large that nearly all designated EB5 regional centers, EB5 program applicants pending [...]

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 [...]

New venture capital plan aims to grow clean tech jobs, EB-5 visa program proposed as green incubator in Silicon Valley

You know that the USCIS EB-5 visa immigrant investor program has passed a milestone when Silicon Valley venture capitalists begin considering setting up their own EB5 visa regional center program. This initial round of EB5 visa capital could prove to be an incubator for dozens of high tech companies developing the next generation of green [...]

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 [...]

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