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Meeting in Chicago
I am available for meetings in Chicago this Friday and Saturday, August 22 & 23. I will be speaking at the American Immigration Lawyers Association EB-5 Conference on I-829 removal of conditional residence applications. Please contact me if you or anyone you know wishes to meet with me in Chicago. Fortune Magazine...
Electronic Filing of Regional Center I-526s
The USCIS held a stakeholder’s call last week solely about its new “document library” and EB-5 filing system for regional center (RC) based I-526 investor petitions. Information about the new system: It allows a RC designated “Document Library Manager” (must be an employee of the RC) to create a USCIS ELIS...
Source of Funds
All funds invested in an EB-5 green card project, plus the regional center’s subscription fee, must be traced and shown to be from a legal source. Each case is different. Some people take a distribution from a company and some have savings over time. One common source is to sell a...
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
The U.S. is one of a few countries that tax its residents on worldwide income. The U.S. and the People’s Republic of China have recently entered into a FATCA agreement whereby Chinese banks will notify the U.S. IRS about accounts held in China by American citizens and permanent residents (green...
Good News for Economic Models
RIMS II is a common input-output economic model used for RCs to project job creation. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) had announced that it suspended and planned to retire RIMS II. However, the BEA now says that in 2015, it plans to release a modified economic model to replace...