Mark A Ivener, A Law Corporation

Category: Legislative Updates


Client Update: Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits Over Medicaid Access, Courts Review Emergency Deportations

Two major court cases have raised important questions about legal rights for immigrants and public benefits recipients. One ruling from the Supreme Court limits who can sue over Medicaid coverage. The other involves emergency deportations that courts are now reviewing for possible legal violations. SUPREME COURT BLOCKS MEDICAID LAWSUIT OVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACCESS What happened:… Read More

Review of 2018 Changes to EB-5 Part 2: Changes to the Regional Center Program

In my last article we discussed obstacles and issues that faced the EB-5 program in 2018. These issues have largely arisen due to larger political factors, which recently resulted in a 35 day government shutdowns that just ended last week and drove volatility into basically all immigration conversations. The Regional Center Program has not been… Read More

Review of 2018 Changes to EB-5

2018 was an interesting, and not altogether positive, year for the EB-5 program. Frequent political battles impeded the creation of a long term extension for the Regional Center program, wait times for Vietnam and India continued to increase and the program continued to be largely unusable for Chinese citizens (unless they are willing to wait… Read More