Washington, D.C., September 25, 2017 – The EB-5 Regional Center Program, approved by Congress in 1993 as a temporary program to stimulate economic growth and create jobs, is turning 25 years old in 2018. As the EB-5 Regional Center Program reaches maturity, U.S. elected officials, legal advisors and investors throughout...
September 19, 2017 – U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it will again accept Premium Processing applications for all H-1B temporary skilled worker petitions filed under the Fiscal Year 2018 cap. Premium Processing is a USCIS service offering a response with 15-calendar days of filing. Premium Processing...
August 28, 2017 USCIS today notified the public that it will require in-person interviews for all employment-based adjustment of status applicants (Form I-485), and all refugee/asylee relative petitions (Form I-730). The effective date for these changes is October 1, 2017. The stated goal of the new policy is detecting fraud. Current Policy Presently,...
The F-1 and H1-B visas might not be suitable for you if you are a student wishing to study and work in the US. Here's why: A vast majority of Indian students aspire to study in the United States. In fact, 165,918 Indian students were in the US in the 2015-2016...
You were probably unaware of the EB-5 visa program. Here is why it is the best choice to study abroad in the US. Most Indians seeking a future in the US pursue the well-known F1 and H1-B visa programs. However, a lesser known program, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, has recently...
September 18, 2017 – On April 18, 2017, the President held a press conference to issue a new executive order entitled “Buy American and Hire American”. This Executive Order sets out the core concept that the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government will seek to buy American and Hire American, and will...
On 13/01/2017, the Department and Homeland Security (“DHS”) published a proposed rule, titled “EB-5 Investor Program Modernization” (“Proposed Rule”), seeking to introduce significant changes to the existing EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program (“EB-5 Program”). The Proposed Rule has not yet been adopted as a final rule by DHS....
Originally posted by The Real Deal By E.B. Solomont, April 1, 2016 Nicholas Mastroianni II is a man in perpetual motion. The 52-year-old CEO of the U.S. Immigration Fund, which raises money from foreign investors for real estate developments through the EB-5 program, spends a considerable chunk of his time on the road. Last...
Originally posted by Wall Street Journal By Eliot Brown, March 26, 2016 The program, known as EB-5, received applications from 17,691 investors in 2015, up from 11,744 in 2014 and 6,554 in 2013, according to figures released last week by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In all, there were 21,988 investor applications pending...