Quebec to Reopen QIIP With French Language Requirement and $200,000 Donation, Likely by End of Year
Suspended since 2019, the QIIP is likely to reopen by the end of the year with a new set of requirements, writes Patrick McCarthy.
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EB-5 Special: How The 2022 Program Changes Impacted Application Volume, Processing, and Stakeholders
In this special feature, Varvara Latyntseva details how the EB-5 program changed last year and the effects on applications and stakeholders.
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NDAA Becomes Law: E2 Visas Now Available for Portuguese, Restricted for CBI Citizens
E2 country nationals who are not “domiciled” can no longer get E2 visas if they got citizenship by “financial investment”. But what do those terms really mean?
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House Passes Bill That Would Limit CBI Investors’ Access to US E2 Visas
The act would make E2 visas available to CBI-origin citizens only if they have been “domiciled” in their new country for minimum three years.
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Reported US Citizenship Renunciations in 2022 Exceed Last Year’s Total Already After 3rd Quarter
As US consular missions resume granting appointments to those unable to expatriate during the COVID years, expatriations are rising again.
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E2 Visa Approvals Rebound Unevenly After Pandemic: Japanese Now Account for Half of Applicants
While E2 visa appointments are available within days at the US Embassy in, for example, Tokyo, those applying in Paris face a 7-month wait.
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Reported US Citizenship Renunciations Nearly Triple in Q2 as More Consulates Grant Interviews
Lesperance: “Half of my clients are concerned that the Democrats will keep the House [in November]. The other half are concerned they won’t.”
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SCOTUS Abortion Decision Drives Gush of US-Based Investment Migration Inquiries
“I’ve been receiving about a dozen inquiries a day, up from the one or two US-based inquiries I typically get daily,” says Lesperance.
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EB-5: Regional Center Redesignation “Not Required” Say Congressional Leaders in Letter to Mayorkas
USCIS last week shocked the EB5 market by saying all regional centers will need redesignation. That’s not the case, say congressional leaders.
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USCIS Drops Bombshell EB-5 Q&A Hours Before One-Sided, Overwhelmingly Negative “Listening Session”
All Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
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70% of US Visa Waiver Countries Have Investment Migration Programs, Library of Congress Report Finds
Congressmen aiming to end visa-waivers for countries with CIPs learn that 70% of visa-waiver countries have investment migration programs.
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US Millionaires’ Citizenship Renunciations Nosedive in 2022, Exactly as Predicted in 2020
Just as Lesperance foresaw 18 months ago, citizenship renunciations among wealthy Americans are cratering. Here’s what he expects next.
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As Filing Date For EB-5 Regional Center Program Fast Approaches, Make Sure Your Regional Center Has Filed an “Exemplar”
While the regional center program has been reauthorized, individual RCs need authorizations of their own through I-924s, Brian Ostar prompts.
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Podcast: Matt Galati, Ishaan Khanna, and Suzanne Lazicki on the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act
“It’ll take a long time for this new program to be stable,” says Matt Galati. “I don’t know if that gets done before 2027, frankly.”
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EB-5 Reform Bill Will Pass Today: Regional Center Program to Be Reauthorized Until 2027
The EB-5 Reform will bring minimum investment levels to $800,000 and $1,050,000 and grandfather in existing regional center investors.
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US Bipartisan Bill Aims to End Visa-Free Travel to US, EU, UK for Countries with Citizenship by Investment Programs
The bipartisan bill not only seeks to exclude countries with CIPs from the US visa waiver program, but also from visa-free travel to Europe.
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Behring Co. Fires Opening Salvo in Coming Barrage of Suits Against US Govt. Over Regional Center Program Closure
The more than 40,000 EB-5 investors left in the lurch by the closure of the Regional Center Program are not going down without a fight.
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Understanding What Motivates the American Investor Migrant
Stephane Tajick has spent the last year catering to the growing US market for investment migration. Here’s what he’s learned.
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$500,000 EB-5 Investment Minimum Confirmed as DHS Withdraws Behring Case Appeal
The Department of Homeland Security will not appeal the Behring ruling after all, confirming $500,000 minimum investments for direct EB5.
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How Redeployment of At-Risk EB-5 Capital Works During The Regional Center Program Lapse
Now that the regional center program has lapsed, maintaining EB-5 capital at-risk through redeployment poses challenges, writes Aaron Grau.
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