Full House Judiciary Committee: The Department of Homeland Security’s Proposed Regulations Reforming the Investor Visa Program
Date: Wednesday March 7, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM (EST)
Location: Rayburn House Office Building
Presiding: Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va)
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Witnesses Panel 1:
Honorable Charles Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Honorable Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Witness Panel 2:
Ms Rebecca Gambler, Homeland Security and Justice Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Mr. Sam Walls III, Managing Director, Pine State Regional Center
Ms. Angelique Brunner, Founder and President, EB5 Capital
Ms. Dekonti Mends-Cole, Director of Policy, Center for Community Progress
Mr. David North, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies
Last week the House Judiciary Committee announced that it scheduled a hearing regarding The Department of Homeland Security’s Proposed Regulations Reforming the Investor Visa Program. The hearing will be tomorrow Wednesday, March 8 at 10am ET in the Rayburn House Office Building Room 2141.
In January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published two separate proposed rules in the Federal Register, one addresses program monitoring and oversight, the other addresses TEAs and investment amounts. Both have a comment period that ends on April 11.
Submit your Comments on Proposed EB-5 Regulations
IIUSA is collecting comments from the membership for the Public Policy Committee to consider in its official comment submission to DHS, demonstrating the negative effects these proposed changes would have on the industry.
Please submit any comments to advocacy@iiusa.org by Friday, March 10th.
