United States EB-5 Program: I-526 Application Volume Hit 3.5-Year High This Quarter
The Q3, 2023 statistical report from USCIS shows demand for EB-5 gaining ground despite stubborn backlogs, writes Varvara Latyntseva.
Read moreThe Q3, 2023 statistical report from USCIS shows demand for EB-5 gaining ground despite stubborn backlogs, writes Varvara Latyntseva.
Read moreMelvin Warshaw and David Lesperance discuss the critical importance of an integrated tax and immigration strategy for those moving to the US.
Read moreNot since 2019 have so many investors applied for initial EB-5 visas. But at present, USCIS is rejecting more than half of all applications.
Read moreIn this special feature, Varvara Latyntseva details how the EB-5 program changed last year and the effects on applications and stakeholders.
Read moreDavid Lesperance and Melvin Warshaw explain how to get through the byzantine obstacle course of exit tax without setting off IRS booby traps.
Read moreIn this second installment of the series, David Lesperance and Melvin Warshaw explore the five-step process of renouncing US citizenship.
Read moreMel Warshaw and David Lesperance continue to outline uniquely American issues that US taxpayers need to consider when moving to Portugal.
Read moreMelvin Warshaw and David Lesperance highlight three uniquely American pitfalls US expats must consider when investing and residing abroad.
Read moreThe act would make E2 visas available to CBI-origin citizens only if they have been “domiciled” in their new country for minimum three years.
Read moreWhile the Court agreed that renouncing US citizenship is a fundamental right, it argued pandemic circumstances made delays understandable.
Read moreWhile E2 visa appointments are available within days at the US Embassy in, for example, Tokyo, those applying in Paris face a 7-month wait.
Read moreLesperance: “Half of my clients are concerned that the Democrats will keep the House [in November]. The other half are concerned they won’t.”
Read moreAll Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
Read moreHungary has granted more than a million citizenships by descent in the last decade. The US is denying these citizens ESTAs, citing fraud risk.
Read moreThe EB-5 Reform will bring minimum investment levels to $800,000 and $1,050,000 and grandfather in existing regional center investors.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreStephane Tajick has spent the last year catering to the growing US market for investment migration. Here’s what he’s learned.
Read moreNow that the regional center program has lapsed, maintaining EB-5 capital at-risk through redeployment poses challenges, writes Aaron Grau.
Read moreDavid Lesperance says the US govt. is systematically suppressing expatriation and is hiding the true numbers to avoid encouraging more of it.
Read moreThe US govt. is making renunciation practically impossible. That violates the constitution, says the association now suing the State Dept.
Read more