EB-5 Regional Centers Closing at Fastest Rate on Record
Between 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.
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New EB-5 $900k Minimum Now in Effect – But For How Long?
New regulations that raise the minimum investment requirements are now in effect. But legislative developments may change the rules again within a month.
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Kraft: New EB-5 Rules May Not Take Effect on Nov 21 as 6-Year Re-Authorization Likely This Year
New 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.
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DHS to Publish Final Rule on EB-5 Tomorrow That Would Raise Min. Investment to $900,000
But the new rules may never take effect if the EB-5 Regional Center Program gets a congressional extension before Sep 30th.
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House to Vote This Week on Bill That Would Remove Per-Country Visa Caps on EB-5 Program
Stakeholders warn that removing per-country caps without also increasing the number of available visas will not solve the program’s capacity problem.
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EB-5 Program Supports 355,000 American Jobs, Economic Impact Study Finds
During the two-year fiscal period of 2014-15, the US EB-5 program accounted for some $11 billion in capital investments in
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Regional Center Applications Plummet 95%, Lowest Level in 6 Years
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) received only 25 I-924 applications – the petition private and public economic
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EB-5: Regional Center Program Extended, IIUSA Supports Backlog Lawsuit
President Trump yesterday signed a spending package that included a short-term “continuing resolution” (CR) to extend the EB-5 Regional Center
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EB-5 Industry “Extremely Disappointed” as Bid for Re-Authorization Falls Flat
Invest in the USA (IIUSA) the EB-5 industry’s advocacy organization, has issued a statement on the United States EB-5 program’s
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As EB-5 Gets Short-Term Extension, IIUSA Warns Against Marketing Reform as Certainty
Congress Thursday passed a last-minute “Continuing Resolution” to extend government funding and federal programs – of which the EB-5 Regional
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USCIS Begins Unannounced Site Visits to EB-5 Job Creating Entity Sites
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services have begun their previously heralded site visits to Job-Creating Entities as part of their
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