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USCIS, May 13, 2022 - "On Friday, May 13, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published two new forms: Form I-956, Application for Regional Center Designation , and I-956H, Bona Fides of Persons Involved with Regional Center Program...

DOS, Apr. 12, 2022 "On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed a law that made changes to the EB-5 program, authorized a new EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program, and directed that certain “grandfathered” immigration benefits...

Nicolai Hinrichsen, Stephen Yale-Loehr and Adam Schaye, Mar. 21, 2022 "...Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the regional center program has been resurrected. On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that...

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 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...

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...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 142 / Wednesday, July 24, 2019 "This final rule amends Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations governing the employment-based, fifth preference (EB–5) immigrant investor classification and associated...

Zhang v. USCIS - "[T]he essential issue is whether lawfully-obtained, loan proceeds invested in the enterprise as cash are properly characterized as “cash” or as “indebtedness” pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 204.6(e). Because...

Mary Diduch, National Real Estate Investor, Nov. 30, 2018 - "I predict that Congress will extend EB-5 again without any changes … maybe in the spring everybody can agree on a reform package that Congress can enact,” says Stephen Yale...

USCIS Policy Alert : Immigrant Investors and Debt Arrangements (Oct. 30, 2018) - " This update to Volume 6 of the Policy Manual clarifies which redemption agreements are considered debt arrangements."

China Daily, Mar. 21, 2018 - "When Congress considers another stop-gap bill to fund the government, it almost always includes an extension for the EB-5 immigrant investment program. And that scenario is likely to occur again later this week, according...

USCIS, May 2, 2018 - "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in Volume 6, Part G of the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the documentation of conditional permanent resident (CPR) status for employment-based fifth...

Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Dec. 3, 2017 - "What legal options are available for foreign-born entrepreneurs in America? ... The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that “Immigrants are almost twice as likely as the native-born to become entrepreneurs...

USCIS, June 14, 2017, PA-2017-01 Policy Alert SUBJECT: Job Creation and Capital At Risk Requirements for Adjudication of Form I-526 and Form I-829 Purpose U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the USCIS Policy Manual...