Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, Jan. 29, 2024 "For five hundred thousand dollars (the amount has since risen to nine hundred thousand), foreign investors and their families became eligible for green cards, so long as that money succeeded in creating at least...
USCIS, Oct. 11, 2023 "We are providing additional guidance on our interpretation of changes to the EB-5 program in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) made by the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA) , specifically the required investment timeframe...
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...
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...
NPR, May 10, 2017 - "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: More now on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program. Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr teaches immigration law practice at Cornell University . He's a supporter of the EB-5 visa program, although he says Congress ought...
Eric Lipton, Jesse Drucker, New York Times, May 8, 2017 - "It was the first major piece of legislation that President Trump signed into law, and buried on Page 734 was one sentence that brought a potential benefit to the president’s extended family: renewal...
JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ, New York Times, Apr. 27, 2017 - "Lawmakers are discussing the EB5 program this week as they try to reach a deal on the budget and avert a government shutdown. ... The EB-5 program, created in 1990, allows foreigners and their immediate...
"In the midst of a growing security crisis in Mexico, the McAllen-based USA Now Regional Center offered Mexican families with money an escape: Invest $500,000 in South Texas and get a legal permanent resident card in the United States. But the offer may have...
"Discussion leading up to the introduction of a comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. Senate early Wednesday has largely focused on disagreements over a pathway to citizenship for people here illegally. But there’s concern over whether it’ll address...
"When Andrew Kimball needed $60 million to help redevelop the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2009, the president of the 300-acre industrial park boarded a plane for China. Halfway around the world, he made a compelling pitch to potential investors packing conference...
"As his son moved through high school, Xiaohong Mu began researching the immigration policies of Western countries where he believed his boy would get the best education. The owner of a petroleum-engineering firm in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu...