Pandemic Reveals Disparities in Processing System Robustness Among RCBI Programs
The Dominica CIU, accustomed to processing during hurricanes, finds that maintaining operations amid a pandemic is, relatively speaking, a breeze.
Read MoreThe Dominica CIU, accustomed to processing during hurricanes, finds that maintaining operations amid a pandemic is, relatively speaking, a breeze.
Read MoreThe proposal, allegedly, would see the annual quota on EB-5 visas amplified to 75,000, as well as a halving of the investment requirement to US$450,000.
Read MoreA former President of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association thinks we have only seen the contours of the fallout from changes to the EB-5 program.
Read MoreBetween Jan and Sep 2019, the USCIS terminated 75 regional centers and approved only six. 80% of terminations since ’08 have taken place in the last two years.
Read MoreInvestment migration firms are taking client fees on the presumption that their applications will be processed in the future. What if that doesn’t happen?
Read MoreNew regulations that raise the minimum investment requirements are now in effect. But legislative developments may change the rules again within a month.
Read MoreNew rules raising min. investments to $900,000 are scheduled to take effect this week. President Kraft of IIUSA thinks there’s a chance that won’t happen.
Read MoreAngie Rupert compares the EB-5 and E-2 visas on which gives clients more flexibility in terms of work, running a business, and traveling.
Read MoreRepublican Senator Rand Paul is asking his colleagues in the Senate to sign a Joint Resolution that would stop the EB-5 program’s planned price increase in November.
Read MoreAngie Rupert delves into the differences between the EB-5 and E-2 visas: Time frames, immigration status, cost, child dependents, and investment flexibility.
Read MoreApplicants to golden visa programs around the world are made to wait years for approval. That puts an unnecessary damper on demand, writes Stephane Tajick.
Read MoreBut the new rules may never take effect if the EB-5 Regional Center Program gets a congressional extension before Sep 30th.
Read MoreOur dynamic bar chart shows how the volume and demographic make-up of EB-5 visa grants have changed drastically over the last two decades.
Read MoreEyes are now on the Senate’s deliberation on S386. Should it pass as well, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act goes to the president for signing.
Read MoreStakeholders warn that removing per-country caps without also increasing the number of available visas will not solve the program’s capacity problem.
Read MoreEB-5 practitioners are holding their breath ahead of the publication of new program rules that could see minimum investment requirements nearly triple.
Read MoreDuring the two-year fiscal period of 2014-15, the US EB-5 program accounted for some $11 billion in capital investments in
Read MoreThe effects of 15-year wait times and a growing interest in European alternatives are starting to manifest in Chinese application
Read MoreChinese applicants are no longer the only group suffering under the EB-5 program’s intractable retrogression nightmare; Indian and Vietnamese investors
Read MoreThe United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) received only 25 I-924 applications – the petition private and public economic
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