by IIUSA HQ | Jun 2, 2017 | Archived
By Spencer McGrath-Agg, Attorney, Boundary Bay Law, PLLC After brief correspondence with a colleague who travels to China frequently, it became apparent that the U.S. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Card (“ABT Card”) Program is not as well-known as...
by IIUSA HQ | Jun 1, 2017 | Archived
Addendum Provides Further Insight into Potential Targeted Employment Area Policy Reform Earlier this month, an updated targeted employment area (TEA) report was published by Invest in the USA (IIUSA), the non-profit trade association of the EB-5 Regional Center...
by IIUSA HQ | May 31, 2017 | Archived
As the EB-5 industry looks ahead to a very important summer for the future of the Program, IIUSA is pleased to announce that it will go to print on the next issue of the Regional Center Business Journal (RCBJ) at the end of June. This edition will once again feature...
by IIUSA HQ | May 30, 2017 | Archived
As of March 31, 2017, USCIS is processing the I‐526 petitions that it received before September 20, 2015 (a two week increase over the processing times published in February); the I‐829 petitions that USCIS received before October 12, 2014 (up from October 1); and the...
by IIUSA HQ | May 25, 2017 | Archived
On April 21, 2017 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published a new form I-829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions on Permanent Residence Status. It was announced that beginning July 24, 2017, USCIS will only accept the 4/21/17 edition of...
by IIUSA HQ | May 24, 2017 | Archived
by Michael Kester, Economist, Impact DataSource On January 13th, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend certain regulations governing the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. A significant portion of the proposed...