by IIUSA HQ | Sep 26, 2019 | Government Affairs
On June 29, 2016, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman released its Annual Report to Congress, which it must do by June 30 of each year. The Ombudsman’s Annual Report provides a summary of the most pervasive and serious problems...
by IIUSA HQ | Sep 23, 2019 | Education, Government Affairs
By Christina Dilbone, Mona Shah & Associates Global On an overcast Monday afternoon in a conference room sitting high atop New York City, EB-5 attorneys, developers and project managers sat around a large roundtable to discuss legislative issues surrounding the...
by IIUSA HQ | Jul 16, 2019 | Government Affairs
This afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee is hosting a hearing titled “Policy Changes and Processing Delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services”. The purpose of the hearing is to highlight the growing delays in USCIS petition processing and...
by IIUSA HQ | Jul 12, 2019 | Government Affairs
On July 10th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1044, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019. The bill removes the per-country caps for employment-based visas, including EB-5. While the bill passed the House, it still needs to pass in the U.S....
by IIUSA HQ | Jun 12, 2019 | Education, Government Affairs, Research & Analysis
by Cletus Weber, Founder & Partner, Peng & Weber PLLC; Elizabeth Peng, Founder & Partner PLLC Regional centers and related EB-5 professionals are now well aware of the massive EB-5 visa backlog for China, the substantial one for Vietnam, the soon-to...