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Good Fortune for the New Year
At this time of year we take a stock of our own good fortune and think about the New Year. Soon the effort by the EB-5 community will be in full swing for extension of the Regional Center statute, which is set to expire on September 30, 2015. In the past few...
December USCIS Stakeholder Call
The December 5th USCIS EB-5 stakeholders call provided little new information. Adjudications are still slow. The processing times announced are: I-526s are averaging 14.5 months; I-829s are averaging 6 months; New Regional Center and amendment I-924s are averaging 8 months. USCIS acknowledged that when a Regional Center I-526 case is decided for a new project,...
Immigration Executive Action
Here are some thoughts on President Obama’s recent and expected executive actions to be announced on Friday! China Tourist and Business Visas While in China last week, President Obama announced new reciprocity rules for Chinese citizens coming to the U.S. with tourist (B-2) and temporary/business (B-1) visas. Rather than being valid for...
November EB-5 Stakeholder Call
The USCIS has announced that the next EB-5 Stakeholder Meeting will be held Friday, December 5, 2014 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. These meetings usually provide little useful information. However, on the last call, I posed one question in writing and two verbally and all three elicited important information. We...
IIUSA Conference
The IIUSA (the Regional Center trade association) conference last week was quite interesting. I co-chaired the conference which was attended by about 550 people from throughout the world. I met with many regional centers and Chinese migration agents among others. I led the Immigration Law Panel which discussed cutting-edge issues including: Legality...