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This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/13/2021 "ACTION: Final rule; technical amendment. SUMMARY: On January 17, 2017, DHS published a final rule with new regulatory provisions guiding the use of parole on a case...

USCIS, July 22, 2021 - Immigrant Investors and Investment of Loan Proceeds "Noncitizens may seek an immigrant visa based on their investment in a new commercial enterprise in the United States if they meet certain related minimum investment and...

USCIS, July 15, 2021 "This technical update explains that on June 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in Behring Regional Center LLC v. Wolf , 20-cv-09263-JSC, vacated the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization...

Wang v. Blinken "The Immigration and Nationality Act makes a limited number of visas available to foreign investors who create jobs in the United States. It also grants investors’ spouses and children the “same status” and “same...

H. Ronald Klasko and Tammy Fox-Isicoff, July 6, 2021 "The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program saw two very important changes in June 2021. Below are the most common questions our EB-5 visa lawyer team members have been answering as the industry adjusts...

July 1, 2021 - Due to obstruction by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), a bipartisan bill to keep the Regional Center portion of the USCIS EB-5 Investor Visa program failed. More here and here . Cornell Law School professor and EB-5 expert Stephen W. Yale-Loehr...

USCIS, June 30, 2021 "Statutory authorization related to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program will expire at midnight on June 30, 2021, unless Congress reauthorizes it. A lapse in authorization does not affect EB-5 petitions filed...

Behring RC v. Wolf "Behring Regional Center, LLC, a California-based Regional Center that sponsors capital investment projects using funds from foreign investors who are EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program applicants, brings this Administrative Procedures...

USCIS, Dec. 2020 - General Questions and Answers

Zhang v. USCIS "Certain visas are available to prospective immigrants who invest capital in the United States. A longstanding regulation, promulgated in 1991, defines the required capital to include cash or indebtedness secured by the immigrant’s...

Mirror Lake Village v. Wolf "The plaintiffs in this case are Mirror Lake Village, LLC, a new commercial enterprise set to construct and operate a senior living facility in rural Washington, and five foreign nationals who each contributed $500,000...

USCIS, July 24, 2020 - Clarifying Guidance for Deployment of Capital in Employment-Based Fifth Preference (EB-5) Category "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing clarifying policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding...

Keith Larsen, The Real Deal, Oct. 21, 2019 "EB-5 has gotten a jolt of life, but experts say the program could soon flatline. New federal regulations will nearly double the minimum dollar amount that all foreign visa-seekers must plow into development...

Mu v. Barr "Derivative beneficiaries of an alien entrepreneur in the immigrant investor program (EB-5 program), who receive conditional legal permanent resident (“LPR”) status, are entitled to the same review rights in removal proceedings...

Shilpa Phadnis, TNN, July 25, 2019 "The US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has just announced an increase in the standard minimum investment amount to $1.8 million, from $1 million. For high unemployment areas, the amount has been...