South Dakota EB-5 Visa Project Publishes Update

We haven’t heard much about the Northern Beef Packers (NBP) project since last July when the State of South Dakota allowed the group to forgo obtaining an otherwise required lending license so that construction of its new facility could get off the ground. Although not explicitly stated in the company’s most recent press release (published [...]

Startup Visa Bill Good For Creating Jobs

From Slate: Why the U.S. needs a new visa for foreigners who want to start businesses here. By Jill Priluck Near the end of his election campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised to hold a vote on the DREAM Act, a laudable bill that would extend citizenship and offer education and other benefits to some [...]

New Immigrant Investor Program For Canada

CANADA RE-OPENS IMMIGRANT INVESTOR PROGRAM Effective December 1, 2010, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will once again accept applications under the federal Immigrant Investor Program. Under the new program criteria, investor applicants will need to have a personal net worth of $1.6 million, up from $800,000 under the old criteria, and make an investment of $800,000, [...]

Congressman Polis Wants to Expand EB-5 Visa Program

From Inside Colorado News: Polis Statement on New Senate Immigration Reform Bill “Today Senators Menendez and Leahy showed true leadership by introducing the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act. Instead of punting the issue like so many of our colleagues in Congress, this bill represents a good-faith effort to fix our broken immigration system. The bill contains tough [...]

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 [...]

Developers to use EB5 visa program for Algiers hotel, New Orleans

From the New Orleans City Business comes an article about NobleOutReach and their latest EB5 visa project in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana.   Of interest should be the statement:  “…and the project will be paid for by visa-seeking foreigners participating in an obscure federal immigration program.” They also mention that there are 45 EB5 [...]

City of Dallas Regional Center EB5 visa program trades green cards for development capital

From the Dallas Morning News comes a story about the City of Dallas EB5 visa Regional Center.  The focus of the story is about creating awareness among the Dallas readers that this US immigrant investor visa green card program will have for developing parts of downtown Dallas.  On an overseas tour to China, they met [...]

New York City Regional Center, Brooklyn Naval Yard story

From Crain’s New York Business featuring the first EB5 visa Regional Center project by the New York City Regional Center: The Brooklyn Naval Yard. Green cards build Navy Yard Published: November 22, 2009 – 5:59 am President Barack Obama was in China to soothe the nation’s biggest creditor last week. Andrew Kimball, chief executive of [...]

California Military Bases (CMB) update

By Patrick F. Hogan, President/CEO, CMB Regional Centers CMB Regional Centers are exploding with excitement as this year is shaping up to be a banner year for us. We wanted to share the good news with you: On Friday, Defense Communities 360, A Publication of the Association of Defense Communities published the article; Immigration Program [...]