USCIS, Sept. 12, 2023 "... This policy update provides additional guidance regarding the evaluation of evidence submitted in support of E11 extraordinary ability and E12 outstanding professor or researcher petitions. Among other revisions, this update incorporates...
DOS, Mar. 22, 2023 "Based on INA standards and expected demand from these countries for family-sponsored and employment-based preference visas, the Department of State is no longer including a separate column covering applicants chargeable to El Salvador...
USCIS, Mar. 1, 2023 "Today, the Department of Homeland Security posted a Federal Register notice providing information related to the EB-5 Integrity Fund. We will use the EB-5 Integrity Fund primarily to administer the EB-5 Regional Center Program, as required...
Dustin Saldarriaga writes: "Earlier today we received a favorable decision from Judge Koeltl (SDNY) denying the government’s motion to dismiss where our client (a national of Canada) had been waiting more than three years for a decision on his I-526 petition...
Cyrus D. Mehta & Jessica Paszko*, Nov. 1, 2022 "Earlier this year, the USCIS issued policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify how the USCIS evaluates evidence to determine eligibility for O-1A nonimmigrants of extraordinary ability, with...
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 included...
Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 14, 2022 "In an aging Hollywood neighborhood known for its dive bars, pawn shops and tattoo parlors, three luxury hotels and a private events center opened over the last five years, with the help of millions of dollars...
EB-5 Daily, Mar. 11, 2022 "The EB-5 Regional Center Program expired in June 2021. Since then, the EB-5 Regional Center Program has been in purgatory, with applicants unsure of their status and rights. As of earlier this week, the United States House of...
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 said...
Sinduja Rangarajan, Mother Jones, Feb. 27, 2020 "The EB-1 green card is meant to be a fast track to residency status for “aliens of extraordinary ability” who are on the top of their fields. It has been issued to Nobel Prize winners and nuclear scientists...
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 increased...
Jodi Xu Klein, South China Morning Post, Dec. 29, 2018 - "With a sharp uptick in Chinese applications for the visa programme known as EB-5, waiting times for applicants to obtain US residency have tripled to as long as 15 years. But the programme has no clear...
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-Loehr , an attorney at...
Angelo Paparelli, July 23, 2017 - "Memes, apocrypha, obfuscation, head feints, hand-wringing, and supposition: These are the misleading and unreliable stuff of the Interweb. To a great extent, alas, they also infect the EB-5 ecospace. This article will avoid...