Category: EB-5
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Office of Public Engagement and Service Center Operations Directorate issued a public invitation (PDF) for participants in the upcoming “stakeholder engagement” to discuss the EB-5 immigrant investor program. The next engagement will take place via teleconference on June 30, 2011, at 1 p.m. (Eastern Time), and the deadline to submit… Read More
A new proposed fee rule would increase the average application and petition fees by a “weighted average” of approximately 10 percent, and would establish a hefty new fee of $6,230 for an application for regional center designation under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Pilot Program.
House and Senate conferees completed their negotiations on the final version of the fiscal year 2010 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 2892) on October 7, 2009. The final conference report includes a three-year extension for four immigration programs: the E-Verify program; the EB-5 immigrant investor regional center program; certain EB-4 religious workers; and… Read More
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a guidance memorandum (PDF) providing USCIS adjudication officers with instructions related to the timing of job creation and the meaning of “full-time” positions in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The memo clarifies that for purposes of the Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur (Form I-526) adjudication and job… Read More
Congress recently extended until September 30, 2009, four immigration programs: E-Verify, the EB-5 immigrant investor pilot program, the religious workers program and the Conrad State 30 program. The first two provisions were extended as part of the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations law in early March; the other two provisions were extended in a separate bill (H.R.… Read More