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 moreAs US consular missions resume granting appointments to those unable to expatriate during the COVID years, expatriations are rising again.
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 more“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.
Read moreAll Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
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 more“By filing numerous lawsuits because the agency wasn’t doing anything in 2019, we finally got the agency moving again,” says Matt Galati.
Read moreThousands of Americans who wish to renounce their citizenship – a fundamental right – are barred from doing so under the pretext of COVID-measures.
Read moreFollowing a ruling yesterday, the EB-5 Modernization Rule, which raised the program’s minimum investments in 2019, is no longer in effect. That could change quickly.
Read moreAaron L. Grau, Executive Director of IIUSA, asks why “opposition continues to mysteriously fester” regarding EB-5 program reform.
Read moreThe report noted shortcomings in transparency (and the potential or actualized corruption that such opacity engenders) among five CIPs.
Read moreIf passed, the bill would see EB-5 wait times for applicants filing today equalized to more than eight years, regardless of country of origin.
Read moreMedia reports this month say the pandemic is driving record expatriation. The reality, writes David Lesperance, is exactly the opposite.
Read moreAvailable EB-5 visas in 2021 will most likely be much higher than it has ever been in the past, writes Marko Issever.
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